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  • Cape Colony Winter special

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    I recently posted the reasons why I thought winter restaurant specials are often a waste of time. The kind of restaurant special I do enjoy taking advantage of is when expensive restaurants make it just a little bit affordable for the average Joe in the street, like me. With these specials you get to taste…

  • Top 10 Winter Restaurant Specials 2010

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    There are several lists going around of winter restaurant specials at the moment. Some are nearing one hundred specials. That’s a lot of specials, but I believe only a few of them are really worth worrying about. You can read my thoughts on that here. Below are the few that I have selected because I…

  • What I Dislike About Restaurant Specials

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    My restaurant specials list went viral last year and many people have been asking me when I am going to do one this year. It’s quite a time consuming thing to check the specials and type it up, and there are already various lists flying around. I might do one when I get a moment…

  • World Top 50 Restaurants 2010

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    This year only three South African restaurants made it into the top 100, down from five last year.However, they all moved up several positions with La Colombe making us proud by securing best restaurant in Middle East and Africa region and almost cracking the top 10. La Colombe moved up 26 places to position 12,…

  • Rossouw’s Restaurants Three Star Awards

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    Last year I was invited to the awards ceremony for Rossouw’s Restaurants 3 star awards at Rust en Vrede. That was an awesome event, which I unfortunately did not get invited to this year. But, it’s not about me, it’s about my awesome readers who I’m sure are interested in knowing which restaurants received this…

  • Restaurant recommendations

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    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…

  • Things you must do in Cape Town this summer

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    One thing about living in Cape Town is that you are never short of visitors. Everyone wants to visit Cape Town so it makes you feel very popular. I try not to think about the fact that nobody visited me in all the years I lived in PE and very few while I was living…

  • Great Wine Capitals Wine Tourism Awards at Rust en Vrede

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    Last week I was invited to the Great Wine Capitals Best of Wine Tourism Awards at Rust en Vrede. When I saw it was at Rust en Vrede (read about my previous visit here), I accepted the invitation and then tried to find out what the Great Wine Capitals Global Network is all about.  I…

  • Eat Out Top Ten 2010

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    On Sunday night the Eat Out top ten for next year was announced. Being in the Top Ten is a big deal for restaurants because, apart from the recognition and exposure, a lot of tourists pick up the Eat Out magazine at the airport or wherever and try and eat out at the top restaurants.…

  • Backsberg Picnic Concert Series

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    I recently posted the schedule for the upcoming Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts (starting with Johnny Clegg this Saturday). If that is your thing, then you’ll probably be into this as well. Backsberg is hosting a series of picnic concerts on the estate, also on Sundays from the 29th November to the 31st January. There is…