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Meet Chef Nicolene Barrow of Orangerie at Le Lude: 2021 Top 10 Woman Chef!

Chef Nicolene Barrow is a quiet and unassuming restaurant owner and chef at the family sparkling wine estate Le Lude in Franschhoek. Her French-inspired with a contemporary twist restaurant is the best in the village, in my opinion. She is one of our 2021 Top 10 Women Chefs, and has received her prize of a bottle of Adhara Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Chef Nicolene is the best qualified Chef in our province, having worked at 2 Michelin-star Le Gavroche in London for two years. She opened Orangerie five years ago.

 

 

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Restaurant Review: Hazendal Avant-Garde The Russian Tea Ceremony a South African inspired High Tea with a Russian flavour!

 

Two weeks ago I needed to drop off a prize to Hazendal Executive Chef Michelle Theron, one of the 2021 Top 10 Women Chefs of the Cape. My road trip partner was Gary Peterson.

A mere 36 minute trip from Camps Bay via the R300 led us to a gem of more than a wine estate, not having visited it before. It contrasts the 300 plus year history with modernity through the use of glass structures. Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 37 of Level 3, 1 September 2021

 

Wednesday 1 September 2021, Spring Day, Cap Classique Day, Day 37 of Level 3 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a very hardworking day; for it being a sunny Spring Day but on the chilly side at 16C, and a very cold South Easter blowing now; for 2 Discovery Gameboard plays, one a lucky 400 points; for a fun Podcast interview with Matthew Hallett, over an hour long; for getting my pool pipe leak fixed 🙏; for the amazing astounding service by our new Sandak-Lewin Portfolio Manager Vanessa who started today, responding to all emails before the end of the day, and even after 17h00, and Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 35 of Level 3, 30 August 2021

 

Monday, 30 August 2021, Day 35 of Level 3 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a cold grey and then rainy day, staying home all day, having picked up a cough; for a hard working day, Mondays always having the most work, added to which was writing a client newsletter; for some step walking in our garage; for surviving an alarm going off directly above my bedroom just after 2h00 this morning, when the clients of owner Magali Seguillon of EbbTide apartment 202 came back during Curfew 🥵; and for being healthy and free. 🙏💙 Continue reading →