Author: Dax
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Good Food & Wine Show 2013
I’m usually quite involved at the Good Food & Wine Show, last year I did a cooking demo in the Cavendish kitchen and was also one of the judges of the stands at the show. This year I got to enjoy it as a visitor. Checkers and Computicket kindly gave me a ticket to see…
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Spice Route Estate
If you’re wondering whether you should visit Spice Route Estate, the answer is yes, definitely. Some may think it is tourist oriented, and it may well be but locals will enjoy spending some time there too. Read on to find out why. Spice Route estate is the old Siedelberg estate, next door to Fairview. It…
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Steakhouse Championships 2013
As JP Roussouw observed in his opening comments, meat is our national food. We love to eat it and we’re passionate about it. Steakhouses have been a a feature of the restaurant industry in South Africa for as long as we can remember. A steakhouse would have been one of the places where we learned…
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Fine Brandy Fusion Ticket Giveaway
Fine Brandy Fusion is a brandy festival which has happened in Johannesburg for the last 5 years. Now it has finally come to Cape Town! Taken from the Fine Brandy Fusion website: There is simply nothing like South Africa’s finest anywhere in the world. Being the definitive collection of South African brandy under one roof,…
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World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2013
SA does not have any restaurants in the top 50, but on the extended top 100 list we have the same 2 that we had last year, Tasting Room (up from 57 to 53) and Test Kitchen (up from 74 to 61). A nice additional accolade this year is that Test Kitchen was voted The…
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Taste of Cape Town 2013 – My Tips
I popped into Taste of Cape Town last night. It was the first session and I wanted to get a feel for this year’s event. I will be there again for the Saturday afternoon session to give it a proper go, but here are my initial impressions and some tips on things you should taste…
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The Entertainer Giveaway
In November I was introduced to The Entertainer, a discount voucher book that is popular in several countries and was soon to be launched in Cape Town. For the first time I was impressed with a voucher book. The simplicity and value of the offering sold it for me, 2 for 1, anytime. I was…
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Classic Wine Trophy Awards 2013
This is the 3rd year I’ve attended the Classic Wine Trophy awards dinner. I quite like these awards as they are fairly small and quite unique from many other competitions. The uniqueness is for 2 reasons, firstly the judging is all done blind. The judges only know the style of wine, so that they can…
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Ultimate Braai Master
I think Ultimate Braai Master is definitely some of the best television produced in South Africa. I only got to watch about 7 of the 12 episodes in the first series, because the chances of me being at home at 8pm every Thursday are minimal. But you only needed to see one episode to recognise…
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Churros Challenge Results
Churros are not common in Cape Town, despite being delicious. In fact, after an extensive search we only found 6 restaurants which serve them. So we tried them all and here are the results. Read our introduction article to learn more about churros. The primary judge was my secret sidekick, ‘Batman’, who has some pastry…