Category Archives: Green Point

July 2022 Restaurant Update: Cape Town and Winelands, new re-openings!

 

New restaurants are still opening, or planning to open, in Cape Town and the Winelands, despite it being Winter.

The biggest recent restaurant opening has been by Chef Liam Tomlin, who opened The Bailey, a three storey Brasserie, Bakery, and two Bars across the road from Heritage Square. He has closed down his Chefs Warehouse on Bree Street. Ouzeri also opened last month.

Restaurant Artizian will open on Bree Street in August. Chef Peter Tempelhoff is said to open a Japanese Street Food restaurant on the ground floor of Speakers Corner, the building in which FYN operates, in September. TANG will create a big stir when it opens in the Waterfront in Spring, Continue reading →

Misfits a mix of restaurant, Gin Academy, wine shop, coffee bar, event venue, and work space!

 

I was recently contacted by Ideas Cartel owner Schuyler Vorster, and invited to experience it. We have never met. I had to Google the directions to find the venue, and was surprised to see that it was the former Beluga, which closed down during Lockdown.

Subsequently I returned to the restaurant twice, for a dinner invitation, and then for an ice cream and gin pairing.

Misfits is a restaurant, entertainment venue, event venue, Inverroche Gin Academy, work space, coffee bar, wine shop, and indoor golf putting area.

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Corona Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 183 of Level 1, 1 April 2022

 

Friday 1 April 2022, Day 183 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a fabulous day, that just became better as the day progressed; for being able to do a Bakoven walk on a day with very strong wind, the wind having died down somewhat over lunch time; for preparing a proposal for a prospective client, loving writing it as it is different to the work I do for my other clients; for a meeting at Labotessa Hotel & Café, loving their tea and Appeltaart spoil 💙 ; for a photograph session at Anatoli, for its participation in Restaurant Week running from today Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 136 of Level 1, 13 February 2022

 

Sunday 13 February 2022, Day 136 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a me-me catch-up day, starting with 10 hours of sleep over three sessions, an absolute tonic; for writing two Blogposts, having missed the writing in the past week; for a lovely sunrise, seeing a rainbow on the horizon, loving being outside with the cats; for a late afternoon Bakoven walk, once again seeing our garage door standing open when the guest of the renter of Sacha’s Jack Ebbtide apartment 201 left 😡, a security breach; for our garage door working all weekend, the first Continue reading →