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Tony cooks at Societi Bistro
Tony Jackman will be cooking at Societi Bistro, 50 Orange Street, Gardens, in Cape Town, on Saturday August 28.
The grandest beach cafe, dancing at Gold, and a gourmet picnic at Warwick
Why are restaurateurs in this country unable to find our own themes and names for things? Tapas is not African. Small portions aren’t either. And there is one truly glaring omission from this supposedly African menu: there is no red meat on the menu other than a tiny portion of bobotie. In Africa, land of the cow, the goat and the buffalo, there is no meat on a showcase African menu. This is like not having soy sauce on a Chinese menu, or omitting the spices in a curry. Come on, we’re Africans, we eat meat.
A taste of the sea at the Cape
If you live at the Cape and love seafood, there are times when you have to have your bank manager abducted in the pry of night and taken by masked men to some greasy spoon cesspit while you go out to your favourite local seafood spots. I have three I rate highly…
Is the Tasting Room at Le Quartier Francais really worse than a parking lot bistro?
How on earth is 9th Avenue Bistro, which has a nondescript al fresco area overlooking a plain-as-chips parking lot, better than the Tasting Room at le Quartier Francais or Overture with its world-beating view and Margot Janse’s fabulous cuisine? I don’t buy it.
Another step in the chichification of old Cape Town
These developments spring up with increasing regularity, and you have to think that one day we will wake up, look around, grab the nearest handrail and yell, ‘Where am I? What have they done with Cape Town?’
Inside the Sun King’s Waterfront lair
Being at the Sun King’s newest venue whisked me right back to the ground-wetting for the Cape Sun Hotel aeons ago, when Anneline Kriel, then Sun Queen, stepped out of a limo in the rain and I nearly choked on a sliver of Parma ham.
Ginja moves in where Nova’s lights went out
Mike Bassett, one of Cape Town’s most brilliant chefs, has moved his top-ranking Ginja restaurant uptown to the site of the sadly short-lived Nova.
Bukhara to rise from the ashes
BUKHARA, the brilliantly successful North Indian tandoori specialist eatery in central Cape Town, has been a favourite for well over 10 years, so I was shocked to see, walking past [...]