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Restaurant Revisit: Shimmy Beach Club has the Breakfast blues!

Shimmy's Beach Club Breakfast PizzaI received a media release from Communication Services Africa on Friday, to publicise the new weekend Breakfast offering of their client Shimmy Beach Club, the highlight being their Breakfast Pizza, of which they had sent along a photograph (left).   Sadly the photograph sent did not match the Breakfast Pizza I was served yesterday.

The publicity photograph looked so good that I made sure to get to Shimmy on a grey Saturday before their Breakfast service finished at 11h00, making it just in time.  I need not have rushed, as I was the only patron in the vast restaurant, which I  wrote about a year ago.   One of the hostesses took me through to my table, and excitedly I told her that I had come to try the Breakfast Pizza (R89), and described my dry cappuccino request to her.  She promptly handed me over to Russian waitress Olga, repeating to her what I had just ordered.  The LavAzza coffee did not come dry, being a full cup of coffee with a thin layer of foam.  Kindly Olga got them to try it again, and the second attempt was much better.  A plate with three containers of garlic, chili, and tomato sauce was brought to the table. Continue reading →

Anonymous Sweet Service and Telkom Sour Service Awards!

The Sweet Service Award goes to the kindest fellow-shopper at Build-It on Buitengracht Street, who on Tuesday offered to deliver two sheets of Rhino board to our Whale Cottage guest house in Camps Bay in his bakkie, when the sheets were just a few centimetres too wide to fit onto the back seat of our car, especially as it was a few minutes to closing time.  It is service like this that makes Cape Town such a special city!

The Sour Service Award goes to Telkom, which took four hours to restore the ADSL connection to the whole of Franschhoek last Friday.  The ADSL-outage was a major inconvenience to every business in the village, coming at a bad time just before the weekend.  The ADSL-outage concluded a week of technical problems in the village, with Vodacom as well as 3G problems experienced earlier last week, and have continued this week.

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.  Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at info@whalecottage.com.   Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales newsletters on the www.whalecottage.com website.