Relax With Dax

Author: Dax

  • Poll change: from tipping to booking

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    I’ve closed the tipping poll, just as it was about to hit 200 votes. It’s nice to see the responses to the polls increasing over time, the more votes, the more meaningful the results. I asked how much people tip and 56% of respondents said they always tip 10% and less or more if the…

  • The Food Barn review

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    My dinner at The Food Barn has restored my faith in food. It’s been a while since I’ve been genuinely excited about a meal and I’ve missed the feeling. The Food Barn has undergone a revamp, with the deli being moved to another part of the Noordhoek Farm Village and the restaurant now fills the entire…

  • C’est La Vie review

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    I definitely like restaurants that make their own bread. Apart from having fresh, extraordinary bread with the meal, it seems to create an ambiance and show a commitment to the art of producing serving food. I enjoyed watching bread being made while I breakfasted at Manna the other day and C’est La Vie in Kalk…

  • Airstream Trailer Park at the Grand Daddy Hotel

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    One of the things I like about Cape Town is that the people here are always pushing the envelope, coming up with new ideas and pouring their heart and soul into them to make them world class. People are prepared to take risks and invest themselves and their resources in projects which are so new…

  • Panama Jack’s review

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    I haven’t been to Panama Jack’s in quite a while; several years in fact. There was a good reason for that, I remember not being impressed with the high prices and average food. I have recently heard some positive comments so I was quite pleased to be invited to join some friends there for lunch.…

  • Pythonesque review

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    I was a bit surprised to find myself back at the Theatre on the Bay so soon. I’m quite selective about which plays I watch so after seeing Not The Midnight Mass recently, I thought it would be a while before I was tempted back again. Then I saw that Pythonesque was showing and it…

  • Primi Piatti review

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    I guess it’s not really fair on Primi to try their breakfast the day after breakfasting at Manna Epicure, but that is how I experienced it. A group of us met for breakfast at the Primi in Constantia. I would say that Primi is basically the antithesis of Manna. While Manna’s decor is soft and relaxing,…

  • Bye bye Madame Zingara, bye bye Carlucci’s

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    With shock I read in the newspaper today about the impending liquidation of Madame Zingara and Carlucci’s. The article is available online here. I don’t understand how Madame Zingara can be in financial trouble. That tent, which seated about 450 people was always full and average spend must have been about R500 per head. I’ll…

  • Community Supported Agriculture

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    I remember hearing a while back about someone asking a bunch of kids (at school?) where chickens come from and although the responses were varied, they were all supermarket names. I don’t find that story difficult to believe at all. Children grow up in cities and unless some concerted effort is made to expose them to…

  • Individual responsibility for corporate malfeasance

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    Just recently in China, two people have been sentenced to death and another sentenced to life imprisonment, all in connection with the tainting of milk products with melamine. If you are interested, you can read more about it here. It reminded me of a comment I posted in June 2007, entitled How to end corruption. At…