The day after the Eat Out Awards, newly crowned chef of the year Margot Janse, international superstar Massimo Bottura from Modena, Eat Out Best Steakhouse winner Giorgio Nava and the closest Jozi comes to celebrity chefdom David Higgs, lunched at Bizerca Bistro from whence David tweeted pictorial proof. Which speaks volumes for which restaurant is delivering [...]
…to back episodes of CDWMSA over the festive season. The weather is kak (at least in Jozi) so people couch potato. There [...]
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Masterchef Australia judge and Gordon Ramsay heading to Jozi show
TV celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay along with Masterchef Australia judge George Calombaris are two of the high-profile guests at the upcoming Good Food & Wine Show which takes place at the Coca Cola Dome in Johannesburg from September 22 to 25.
This year's show is bigger and better than ever before with something for everyone of all ages including fantastic shopping, celebrity chef demonstrations, wine tasting and top restaurants.
…once it's not slunk out of the Stellenbosch forge of Dylan Lewis. Jozi sculptor Marco Cianfanelli has silhouetted a spectral leopard against the mountains as the summer sun sets on French corner. The vineyards of the 13ha La Motte Station farm [...]
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Wonderful new discovery thanks to the new Bean There fairtrade coffee shop in Wale Street, Cape Town: Meander Merlot Shiraz 2010 from the Breedekloof. The label looks like something out of the Fanakalo studio in Dorp Street, Stellenbosch. Pity about the silver medal from the Michelangelo International Wine Awards, a competition seriously discredited in my [. ..]
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