Tag Archives: April Fool’s Day

Eat Out Awards 2020 cancelled due to Corona Virus! Diner Support Fund Drive announced!

April 1, 2020

Eat Out has bravely cancelled its Eat Out Awards 2020, due to have been held on 22 November 2020, it announced today. It has also called on diners of the country’s top restaurants to support their favourite restaurants. Even if it’s 1 April 2020, it surely could not be a sick April Fool’s Day joke, leaving a bad taste in restaurant chef and owner mouths if it were to be one!

With every restaurateur worrying about how it can pay its staff salaries, PAYE, supplier bills, and VAT, the last thing they would be thinking of would be getting onto the Eat Out Top 10 List. It is survival of their business first and foremost right now. Continue reading →

Portuguese slave shipwreck found off Camps Bay!

June 28, 2015

It sounded like an April Fool’s Day story, but it appears to be true. Just as I was departing on holiday, the news broke that a Portuguese slave ship has been found off the coast of Camp Bay, which sank more than 200 years ago. The New York Times was the first to break the story!