Relax With Dax

Category: Events

  • Franschoek Uncorked and Solms Delta & Lynx Wine Estates

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    This weekend I convinced five friends to join me at Franschhoek uncorked, and we had a fantastic day. This was the first year of the Uncorked festival and it’s difficult to review this festival is it is not centralised. Each estate organises some sort of activity or theme for the enjoyment of the visitors. We did…

  • American Express Platinum Fine Dining Awards

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    My first visit to the One & Only hotel was to attend the American Express Platinum Fine Dining Awards. I had a quick peek at Maze and Nobu on either side of the grand bar and lounge. Nobu definitely looked more appealing, hopefully I get a chance to eat there sometime soon. The awards were…

  • Meet the Maker at &Union

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    Food provenance. It has become an important aspect of our responsibility to ourselves and the world to eat responsibly and yet, many people don’t even know what provenance means. Wikipedia can help here: Provenance, from the French provenir, “to come from”, means the origin, or the source, of something, or the history of the ownership…

  • South African Chefs Academy cooking class review

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    You’ll notice if you look at the list of popular posts on the navigation bar that my post on cooking courses in Cape Town is always in the top five. I’m not sure why that is, but that translates into a lot of people searching for information on cooking courses. I did a four evening…

  • Franschhoek Bastille Festival & Haute Cabriere

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    I haven’t been to the Bastille Festival in Franschoek for several years. I went for the first few years and then I started going to the Knysna Oyster Festival. This year, work commitments forced me to cancel my Knysna plans so I ended up at the Bastille Festival again. It has certainly grown! It used…

  • SA Cheese Festival 2009 review with thoughts on Glen Carlou

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    The Cheese Festival this year was not much different to the one last year. The one big difference was that there were no tickets available for sale at the  door. All tickets had to be purchased online before the day. The tickets were also more expensive this year, up to R110 depending on which day…

  • Olive Festival 2009 review

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    One of Cape Town’s many fantastic attributes is that you can drive 45 minutes out of the city and be in one of many small country towns. Going away for the weekend here, means driving only as far as some people commute every day. This was my first time at the Olive Festival and in…

  • Rossouw’s Restaurants Award Celebration – with thoughts on Rust en Vrede

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    A while back I reviewed Rossouw’s Restaurant Guide, which I would say is the best restaurant guide available in SA at the moment. I was recently invited to the awards celebration for the three star restaurants in Rossouw’s guide. The nice thing about Rossouw’s rating system is that it compares apples with apples. With most restaurant…

  • Blog Awards Ceremony 2009

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    I didn’t think that I was going to win my category, but I decided to go to the blog awards ceremony anyway. This year was the first year that they had some good sponsors on board, it was at a decent venue (Chevelle nightclub) and there were already about 200 people on the RSVP list,…

  • Taste Festival review

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    Last year, the general consensus was that the Taste Festival was fun but too expensive. I didn’t go last year and was tending toward not going this year until I was offered comps. The prices are much the same this year, but they gave out a stack of comps. It appeared that most people appeared…