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Future of Cape Town Stadium and Green Point Urban Park in hands of Cape Town...
The City of Cape Town has not managed to sort out its problems in making the Cape Town Stadium financially viable, and an extensive public participation process is to be launched to give ratepayers and...
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Many restaurant openings in Cape Town and Winelands contrary to past winter...
Cape Town is seeing an amazing number of restaurant openings in mid-winter, a time during which one expects the opposite, it being usual to see restaurant closures. Although a concern to some, we are...
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Cape Town and Winelands restaurant and chef changes continue!
An unusually high number of new restaurants has opened or will do so in the next month or two. There have never been so many chefs leaving their employers to start their own restaurants, or to join...
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Café Chic reopens with slick service, excellent cuisine, hands-on but...
Café Chic opened in Gardens in 1999, a Victorian building with a chic interior created by French owner Francoise Queyroi. A year ago the restaurant was closed and placed on the market, but has not yet...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 18 March
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * Exhibition space for Cape Wine 2015 is practically sold out, says Wines of South Africa (WOSA) CEO Siobhan Thompson. The largest wine expo in the southern...
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Many new Summer Restaurant openings in Cape Town and Winelands!
A spate of new restaurant openings is coinciding with the start of the Summer season. Restaurateur Michael Townsend of the Harbour House Group continues unabated in opening new restaurants, achieving a...
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Kove Collection opens 3rd La Belle Bistro & Bakery!
A week ago La Belle Bistro & Bakery opened in Mouille Point, next door to sister restaurant Pepenero, off Beach Road, bringing to ten the number of restaurants in the Kove Collection which have...
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Restaurant openings in Cape Town and Winelands continue unabated!
The flood of new restaurant openings continues, especially in Cape Town. We update information about newly opened and closed restaurants continuously. Restaurant Openings Easy Tiger (fast food casual...
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Rotary Sea Point Sweet Service and Vodacom Sour Service Awards!
The Sweet Service Award goes to the Rotary Club of Sea Point, with the City of Cape Town and Mouille Point Ratepayers, for installing a new outdoor synthetic ice rink at the Park in Mouille Point. The...
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Bertus Basson @ The Ritz to turn heads in Sea Point from 15 November!
Sea Point is to get a shake-up when the newly renovated The Ritz hotel opens its doors to its first guests on 1 November, and the revolving restaurant and champagne bar at the top of the Ritz open...
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Seeff Atlantic Seaboard invests in Camps Bay, sponsors beach clean-up by...
On 2 January of this year I adopted a stream near the Camps Bay Tidal Pool, having seen it clogged up with plastic and other rubbish left by picnickers on the infamous New Year’s Day. Since then I...
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Ask-Jean.com App a new wine buying friend, offers fun wine tastings in Cape...
A week ago I attended a wine tasting with a difference, not stiff upper lip and peppered with heavy wine terminology, but light and fun, as a guest of ask-Jean.com, which I had seen on Instagram. I...
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Western Province Rugby moves to Cape Town Stadium, Newlands Rugby Stadium to...
Eleven years after the completion of the Cape Town Stadium for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the Stadium is to be put to use again, with Western Province Rugby making the Stadium its new...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 25 of Level 3 Adjusted, 21...
Thursday 21 January 2021, Day 25 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 302 of Lockdown Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a close to perfect day; for waking up early, and starting to write immediately, given that...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 34 of Level 3 Adjusted, 29...
Friday 29 January 2021, Day 34 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 310 of Lockdown Corona Gratitude #grateful for a fabulous day; for 24C which felt warmer, and no wind ; for a visit by Melanie Davidow, helping...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 35 of Level 3 Adjusted, 30...
Saturday 30 January 2021, Day 35 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 311 of Lockdown Corona Gratitude #Grateful for another fabulous day, with a later sleep-in than usual; for a 24 C day, the wind picking up in...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 32 of Level 1, 1 April 2021
Thursday 1 April 2021, 32 Days of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Gratitude for a well organized day, using a do-list, ahead of the Easter weekend; for getting my work done in good time ahead of my client...
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Restaurant Winter Specials: Cape Town and Winelands (10 June 2021)
The Winter months are always tough on restaurants, as diners are not keen to leave their homes when it is cold and wet. With the reduced trade, added to Loadshedding, and the earlier Curfew start...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 15 of Adjusted Level 2, 14 June 2021
Monday 14 June 2021, Adjusted Level 2 Corona Gratitude #grateful for a sunny day, with morning mist, not too warm at 17C; for being organized work wise and getting what I needed to done; for two Zoom...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 23 of Level 3, 18 August 2021
Wednesday 18 August 2021, Day 23 of Level 3 Corona Gratitude #grateful for a wonderful organized day, starting early in the morning, getting ready for two client meetings; for it pouring early this...
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