Author: Dax
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Meloncino review
There are so many restaurants in the Waterfront and being a local, I don’t eat in the Waterfront that often. This is why it has taken me so long to get to Meloncino (they have been open two years now) even though I have heard many good reports. I decided on my most recent visit…
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Vaudeville review
If you have limited knowledge of the history of theatre, then like me you won’t now what Vaudeville means. But these days, we need not be ignorant for long. Google and Wikipedia come to the rescue again and provide us with the following definition: Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United…
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Woolworths and Sustainability
The other day I attended the Atlantic Seaboard Green Drinks. They happen every month but I was particularly keen to attend this one because the presenter was the sustainability manager at Woolworths, Justin Smith. Woolworths always gets a hard time about their packaging, but I know that they are actually doing some really good work in the sustainability…
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Restaurant recommendations
You will not believe how many emails and text messages I get every week asking me to recommend a restaurant. Now I don’t mind occasionally helping out with a recommendation but it’s kind of annoying when I am given no criteria. This is my worst, which I received today (and hopefully the sender reads this and sends…
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Taste of Cape Town 2010 ticket giveaway
We did a giveaway with Cloof wines a few months ago and that was very successful, except that one of the winners was in the USA as we forgot to specify SA only! Anyway, Cloof were very accommodating and have made a plan to get her some wine. We have another great giveaway (for Capetonians,…
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Cafe Max breakfast review
I recently reviewed Voila and Lazari on the Cape Quarter. These are pretty cool breakfast options if you’re happy to wait for a table and pay a fortune for your breakfast. Walking distance from the Cape Quarter (up the road and right along Waterkant street) is a little gem called Cafe Max, hidden on a…
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Waterkloof estate restaurant review
Some people have a picture in their mind of what a wine estate should look like. That picture normally involves lots of big trees, long driveways and Cape Dutch style homesteads. A lot of wine farms do look like that, but they are normally the older ones. Newer wine farms get to choose their own…
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Bad Science by Ben Goldacre review
My name is Dax and I am a cynic. I do not trust people, and I really do not trust corporations. I do not trust newspapers or TV, in fact I don’t trust most media. I guess if I think about it, I don’t trust people much too. Some people tell me I’m a cynic,…
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Sidewalk Cafe review
A while ago I tweeted about having fantastic poached eggs at the Commodore hotel in the Waterfront (what do you mean you’re not following me on Twitter? Get with the program, click here), and I’m excited to report I had great poached eggs again on Saturday, this time at the Sidewalk Cafe. It may seem…
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Jardine review
You don’t really need me to review this restaurant for you. Jardine has been around for nearly four years now and in that time it has been in the Eat Out top ten several times, has been awarded 3 out of 3 starts by Rossouw’s Restaurant Guide and has also been in the World Top…