Food discoveries that end well warm my heart. After last week’s adventure to this part of town and its burgeoning eateries, we tried Bolton Road Collection. We went without reservations, and just managed to get seating at the bar tables overlooking Bolton Road, which actually ended up being the perfect place to have a late…
Last Thursday night started off what is definitely going to be a regular attendance for me: Joburg’s First Thursdays. Loved the atmosphere around Keyes Art Mile, where police had cordoned off the road and it had been turned into a pedestrian-cum-foodstall-cum-bar area. There were food trucks and a bar serving up drinks to the artsy…
The Cube Tasting Kitchen has a new home in Maboneng, at the Cosmopolitan Building. But even more interesting is The Cosmopolitan Bar by The Cube. Housed in a heritage building that dates back to the 1800s, The Cosmopolitan Bar is a more casual version of The Cube. The food is still sublime, but instead of The…
Friday brunch, as we learnt, is as sacred as Sunday lunch in Christian countries. So much that restaurant websites stipulate that bookings are mandatory for Friday brunch. I suppose you could always wing it, at your own peril though. We went with playing it safe and made reservations. Toro Toro is a Latin-American restaurant that…
I have been sitting on this post for a while not quite sure how to sum up Dubai. With past travels, most cities can be summed up in a word, or two at most – with the first word being the superlative. Charming or bustling or very quaint or extremely exciting . The words to…
Happy New Year everyone ! I have not made New Year resolutions this year, nope. But I am armed with lists. List of restaurants to try, of books to read, and of places to visit. So we started the year off with The Leopard last week. After seeing it pop up in way too many blogs…
The publicists were hard at work in the months preceding and following the opening of Marble Restaurant. There was not a single week that passed without a review in magazines, newspapers or by fellow bloggers. Getting a table in the early months became about waiting lists. What?!@# This is not Cape Town!!
I am not usually a breakfast person. Coffee and a yoghurt normally do it. But occasionally meeting friends for breakfast can be a welcome change from the usual midday dining. My firm favorites for breakfast or brunch are still Nice on 4th in Parkhurst and The Culinary in Lanseria. But the Woolies Cafés, which have…
There is something that feels rather illicit about being at The Saxon. This luxurious hotel, right in the heart of the city yet hidden discretely away on a random tree-lined road in Sandhurst. I tend to combine my visits with a spa treatment. The very definition of luxury: time, pampering and a sumptuous lunch after.…
Lest the title of this post be deceiving, the food is not old school. If anything, a modern take on everything, more fusion in fact. What is old school is the formality of the staff – the ways the waiters are ever-so-discrete, unobtrusive, but present all at the same time. It is in no way…