The Sweet Service Award goes to Facebook, for removing two defamatory comments about restaurants I had visited, on the Facebook restaurant review page ‘Cape Town Restaurants, the Good, the Bad, and the Nastyyyy…‘, within an hour of my request, agreeing that they were harassment. Continue reading →
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 18 May
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Uber and Discovery Health are partnering in a flu vaccination drive on Friday 22 May, between 10h00 and 16h00, a Discovery Health accredited nurse coming to one’s home or work and offering five vaccinations to persons 18+ years for R100. The promotional code is UBERHEALTHSA. The nurse will also bring a flu prevention pack with some surprise items. Discovery Vitality members receive 1000 Vitality points, while DiscoveryCard holders will receive a refund of the R100. (received via media release from Uber).
* KWV has won 35 international awards in three competitions in the past week: At the International Wine Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 12 May
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Kleine Zalze has won the accolade of Best White Wine for its 2013 Family Reserve, a bush vine Chenin Blanc. at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. The winning wines were evaluated by more than 320 judges from 50 countries.
* Actors Sean Penn and Charlize Theron are to wed in South Africa, in Soweto in August, it is speculated Continue reading →
Diners Club Rossouw’s Restaurants loses Anna Trapido, back to JP Rossouw as restaurant reviewer?!
It was a chance biography summary of Anna Trapido that made me pick up that she referred to her relationship with the Diners Club Rossouw’s Restaurants 2015 guide in the past tense. A call to her yesterday confirmed that she is no longer writing reviews for Rossouw’s Restaurants, nor working on its 2016 Guide.
Trapido was quick to confirm that the relationship with JP Rossouw, publisher of the Platter’s
Wine Guide and his Rossouw’s Restaurants, ended amicably, and that she is working on a very exciting project, of which she cannot yet reveal the details. She was associated with Rossouw’s Restaurants for just over one year.
One wonders if Trapido, who comes across as a free-spirit, and not a corporate order-taker, was Continue reading →