Relax With Dax

Author: Dax

  • Blogosphere survey

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    24.com, Amatomu and Afrigator recently conducted a survey of the blogosphere. The questionnaire was quite comprehensive and there were over 1000 respondents. The results are very interesting and are available here. There you will also find in depth profiles of 6 individual blogs, one of them being Relax with Dax. That’s right, I’m famous (a little). There…

  • Vintage India review

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    Vintage India would definately take the prize for best restaurant in a parking lot, but mainly because I don’t know of any other restaurants that are in parking lots. There is quite a selection of Indian restaurants to choose from in Cape Town. Some are not that great, others are good but pricey, and then…

  • Pizza Fair review

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    I’ve realised that I’ve become quite discerning about what pizzas I’m prepared to eat these days. I do also realise that people’s tastes in pizza are very diverse so what I enjoy will not appeal to everyone. My favourite pizza’s are Col’caccio pizzas. I love the thin base and they put on just the right…

  • Obz Festival 2008

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    Every year, for the past few years, I’ve intended to visit the Obz Festival, but I’ve never ended up going. I can’t say what the exact reasons were. I had friends that were going and the weather was good, so in theory I should have been there. I think the fact that the website didn’t…

  • Vegetarian restaurants in Cape Town

    Vegetarian restaurants in Cape Town

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    After seeing Earthlings and subsequently posting about vegetarianism, I’ve been very keen to do a post about vegetarian restaurants in Cape Town. However, it’s not quite that simple. There are very few restaurants which are vegetarian only, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I find that the restaurants which are fully vegetarian are also…

  • International Buy Nothing Day 2008

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    This Saturday, the 29th of November is not just my birthday, it’s (I)nternational Buy Nothing Day. I blogged about IBND last year, having only learnt about IBND a few weeks before I wrote about it. I have just read my post from last year and I really like it. I couldn’t remember what I had…

  • Rossouw’s Restaurant Guide review

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    I recently acquired a copy of Rossouw’s Restaurants 2009. It has changed a lot from the 2008 version. Apart from the new look which is smaller and hardcover, it includes restaurants in Gauteng, although much less than Western Cape restaurants. There are in fact 4 sections: Cape Town, Winelands, Garden Route and Gauteng. All the…

  • Zula Bar review

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    Zula Bar is one of few venues for live music. It’s been around for quite a while now and seems to be going strong. It’s nice to see live music being supported, but I think there were quite a few people there who weren’t particularly concerned about the music. Considering there is usually a cover charge…

  • Poll change: From vegetarians to eating out

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    The last poll was trying to establish what percentage of people are vegetarians. 70% of the respondents said they were definitely not vegetarian, which is less than  I expected. Roughly half of the remaining 30% said they were flexitarians that eat meat only occasionally. 14% were some type of vegetarian which ate either chicken, fish,…

  • GM foods are not the solution to world hunger

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    I like to play the devil’s advocate. I think it’s very important for people to get both sides of the story and to critically examine the evidence for and against each of the sides. I’m very nervous of confirmation bias. You can follow that link to the wikipedia article on it, but an extract of…