Tag Archives: Blouberg

Top 10 Women Chefs in Cape Town and the Winelands: 2022

 

For the third year running we are acknowledging female chefs heading up restaurant kitchens in Cape Town and the Winelands.

Started during Lockdown in 2020, as a celebration of Women’s Day, the Top 10 Women Chefs List highlights how few top restaurants have female chefs in their kitchens in general, and even fewer have women chefs heading up the restaurant kitchens.

We are grateful to Brenda Wilkinson of RIO LARGO Olive Estate for sponsoring a gift of its beautiful colourful Extra Virgin Olive Oil packs to our Top 10 Women Chefs. Continue reading →

Sweet Service Award goes to TakeaLot ; Sour Service Award goes to Trecastelli in Blouberg!

 

The Sweet Service Award goes to TakeaLot, the delivery service I trust, not being a fan of online ordering generally. I found a reasonably priced USP to keep my internet router going, and ordered one as well as some cat food.  I was given a one week delivery time, probably due to the USP availability, but the actual delivery was done in two working days after placing the order. The company communication about the delivery is easy, and even allowed me to change the delivery date to suit my availability. Continue reading →

Corona Virus:Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 5 of Level 2, 17 September 2021

 

Friday 17 September 2021, Day 5 of Level 2 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for an action-packed day, but well-timed with one exception; for a sunny warm 21C day but with the South-Easter blowing; for my rolls and also eggs waiting for me at Dinkel Bakery;  for good Anatoli and Utopia Status meetings, the first time we’ve held them in the morning, as the client postponed them to today; for dropping off Chef Prim Reddy Chapter prize of Adhara Extra Virgin olive oil as a 2021 Top 10 Woman Chef at her Indian Chapter restaurant in Blouberg, sadly she not there; for a good status meeting at Harvest Culture Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 21 of Level 3, 16 August 2021.

 

Monday 16 August 2021, Day 21 of Level 3 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a wonderful warm start to the day, with a beautiful pink sunrise; for listening to Kfm all day, and hearing at 8h32 that Utopia Cape Town is one of 5 finalists in the Best Date Night Restaurant category, with voting starting tomorrow ❤️❤️❤️; for a busy working and writing day, happy that it was so organized due to the writing I did yesterday, breaking it with a exerting walk up Houghton Road and down Camps Continue reading →