JAN the JOURNAL has published its second volume of 2018, just before the year closed. It has taken me almost two months to look at it after buying a copy at Woolworths, the 297 page manuscript of The Jan Hendrik Group (PTY) Limited being more than intimidating in thickness, and time required to do it justice in reading it. Despite having an editor for the publication, one wonders how Chef Jan-Hendrik manages to find the time to collate such a heavy-weight Journal in his role as Editor-in-Chief, given his commitment as chef to his one Michelin star restaurant JAN in Nice, and his regular trips to Cape Town and SA. (more…)
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Thu 28 Feb 2019
JAN the JOURNAL Vol 2 2018: Honours timelessness, feasting, KZN, and Nice, is more commercial than before!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under books, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Food news, France, Michelin, Restaurant news, WhaleTales Blog
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Wed 24 Oct 2018
Eat Out awards Best Everyday Eateries 2018 in the Cape, Gauteng, and KwaZulu-Natal!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under Awards, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Coffee, Events, Food news, Franschhoek, Restaurant news, Somerset West, WhaleTales Blog
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It’s an Eat Out week, with the restaurant guide announcing not only its Top 30 Restaurant nominations for 2018, but also celebrating the top Everyday Eateries for the Western Cape, Gauteng, and KwaZulu-Natal. Generally most would find the Eat Out Everyday Eatery choices to be acceptable, but could question why in some categories restaurants were not awarded. (more…)
Mon 29 Aug 2016
Hartford House home of accommodation and restaurant excellence, tops in KZN!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under accommodation, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Events, Food news, KwaZulu-Natal, Restaurant news, WhaleTales Blog
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Last year I visited Hartford House for the first time, better known to me over the years as the leading award-winning restaurant in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) when it was headed up by Chef Jackie Cameron. I found a young passionate chef in Constantijn Hahndiek, and an excellently run boutique hotel by GM Duncan Bruce. On my return visit this month, I found that the bar had been raised even higher at Hartford House.
Sun 28 Aug 2016
‘Baking with Jackie Cameron’ includes favorite cakes, puddings, pies, and desserts!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under books, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Food news, KwaZulu-Natal, WhaleTales Blog
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Recently Penguin Random Struik had a copy of Chef Jackie Cameron’s new ‘Baking with Jackie Cameron’ Baking book delivered to my home, jam-packed with 80 recipes of her favorite cakes, puddings, pies, and desserts. (more…)
Sun 31 Jan 2016
International tourism down, domestic tourism on the up!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under accommodation, Airlines, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, South Africa, Tourism news, WhaleTales Blog
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Despite the weaker Rand, international tourist arrivals have not increased dramatically as one would have expected. Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom has encouraged locals, (more…)
Thu 31 Dec 2015
Tumultuous 2015 comes to an end, exciting 2016 lies ahead!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under Blogging news, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Food news, Restaurant news, Tourism news, WhaleTales Blog, Winelands
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The year is coming to a close, and has seen a major change, in that we sold all our guest houses, to create a new beginning (more…)
Sat 31 Oct 2015
Rossouw’s Restaurants confirms dominance of Western Cape restaurants in new 2016 Restaurant Guide!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Events, Food news, Restaurant news, WhaleTales Blog
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It was a surprise that the Rossouw’s by Diners Club International 2016 South African Restaurant Guide was launched on such a low-key level at the Platter’s Wine Guide launch in Cape Town on Thursday evening. They might wish that they hadn’t launched it at all!
Publishing Editor JP Rossouw showed us the cover of the book briefly when he revealed the new blue cover of the 2016 Platter’s Wine Guide. That was it! Last year the Restaurant Guide (with twenty 5-star restaurants then) was surprisingly (more…)
Fri 23 Oct 2015
Eat Out Best Everyday Eateries 2015 Awards: shock and horror, a joke!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Events, Food news, Restaurant news, WhaleTales Blog
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The Western Cape winners of the 2015 Best Everyday Eateries were announced last night, and many are horrified by most of the ten eateries on the Western Cape list, there being no consistency with previous Best Of restaurant awards!
Eat Out seems to like making changes to its Awards on a regular basis, this year the Best Of awards getting a new umbrella name of Best (more…)
Tue 13 Oct 2015
A whale of a 19-year Guest House career comes to an end, a new Food career awaits!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under accommodation, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Food news, KwaZulu-Natal, Restaurant news, social media, Stellenbosch, Tourism news, Western Cape, WhaleTales Blog
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It was Futurist Faith Popcorn who predicted a trend of ‘Recareering’ back in the ‘Seventies, one having multiple careers in a lifetime, at a time when I myself was in my first career as a Futurist. I could not have foreseen that my career path from Futurist to Market Researcher, Marketing Lecturer, Research Consultant, Food PR Consultant, and then Guest House owner for the last 19 years would lead me to my new and seventh career, to that as a (more…)
Tue 29 Sep 2015
Eat Out announces Top 20 Restaurant shortlist, in silly dribs and drabs!
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under Blogging news, Cape Town, Chris von Ulmenstein, Events, Food news, Hermanus, Restaurant news, Somerset West, South Africa, Stellenbosch, Tourism news, Whale Cottage Portfolio
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Eat Out is really trying hard to be different in its Top 10 Restaurant Awards this year, and comes across as rather silly. Now it is starting to release its Top 20 Restaurant shortlist, but in batches of five restaurants at a time (ten today, in two batches), with another two batches of five to come. Instead of releasing the list of names, one has to watch a video to see the name of each Finalist restaurant. We will expand upon this Blogpost tomorrow, as the further ten restaurant names are revealed. (more…)
