Relax With Dax

Category: Launches

  • Brewmaster’s Reserve Speciality Beer From CBC

    Brewmaster’s Reserve Speciality Beer From CBC

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    CBC Is renowned for producing beers which are distinctive but true to style and palatable to a wide audience. Having mastered the range of styles which make up the CBC range, the brewing team has been given carte blanche to develop a range of speciality beers in the CBC style. The first beer in the…

  • Harbour House Group Just Pimped Your Summer

    Harbour House Group Just Pimped Your Summer

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    Harbour House Group recently launched Harbour House and La Parada at Constantia Nek, plus they have taken over the Grand Beach and given it a R10m revamp. I went to check out both venues and I’m pleased to report, I liked what I saw. Here’s the low down on why you will want to spend…

  • What Is Craft?

    What Is Craft?

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    It seems that every second thing is ‘craft’ or ‘artisan’ these days. But what does craft mean? And what makes craft products better than other products? Are craft products actually better? This article is about beer, but the questions are relevant more broadly.

  • On a Roll Gourmet Hot Dogs

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    Gourmet hamburgers have been around for a while, but gourmet hot dogs is the new big thing. Even Abigail Donnelly suggested the same in her recent Eat Out article. While some places are offering a gourmet dog on their menu, the first dedicated gourmet dog spot has opened on Durban Road, Mowbray. On a Roll…

  • Twankey Bar launch

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    One of the five or so luxury hotels that have opened in the CBD in the last few months is the Taj. It’s situated at the bottom of Wale Street, as it approaches Adderly Street. The Taj broadens the options of Cape Town diners with two restaurants (Mint and Bombay Brasserie) as well as the…

  • La Mouette launch

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    There is a space around the corner from where I live in Seapoint. This space has consumed several restaurants before it. In my time, three restaurants opened there and closed again without me seeing one single person enter the establishment. It would take a brave person to open a restaurant there, or someone from out…

  • Truth Coffee Cult launch

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    Finally an answer to the question that is on everyone’s lips: What’s the difference between a cappuccino and a flat white? You will hear all sorts of answers to that question but few people are as qualified to answer it as David Donde. Cape Town coffee aficionados will be familiar with Origin coffee and those…

  • Cafe Chic launch

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    In the early days of Relax with Dax, I used to be very excited when I was invited to the launch of a new restaurant or bar, etc. These days I have to choose which ones to go to because my schedule is just too busy and sometimes these things are a waste of time. ‘Relaunches’,…

  • Launch of Sapphire cocktail bar

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    When I received the invite to the launch of Sapphire, they gave the address on the Camps Bay strip but I couldn’t for the life of me work out where it was. Then they let it slip that it was the old Baraza. I don’t know why they didn’t just say so in the beginning,…

  • Bistro 1682 launch

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    I’m creating another new category for this post. I don’t normally post about a new spot until I’ve been there to review it, but I realise that it could be a while before I get there and sometimes you need to know about it! So I will start telling you about new places I’ve been…