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Restaurant Review: Firefly Café in Camps Bay is no longer flying, shocking service!

 

When Firefly Café opened in Camps Bay just over a year ago, I was apprehensive about the future of the coffee shop, its service levels being variable, it taking me more than three months to write a review, feeling more confident about its future.

When co-owner Herman Bezuidenhout, who was often in the Café and with whom I enjoyed chatting, left Firefly Café and sold his shares to his business partner Luzaane Spoelstra, my confidence dropped to rock bottom and I did not return for at least four months, until a week ago! What a bad mistake it was! Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 6 of Level 3, 31 July 2021

 

Saturday 31 July 2021, Day 6 of Level 3 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for surviving July, not the best month this year 😱; for a beautiful summery 21c day; for a small but quality turn-out for our Camps Bay Community Beach Clean, Councillor Nicola Jowell – Ward 54 helping to clean up litter, sponsored by The 41 Restaurant; for finding the new exercise park on the Beachfront, colourful and challenging; for spoilt with Dilmah tea on the lawn by The 41 Restaurant, the envy of passersby; for a wonderful terrace snooze this afternoon, after a good and long nights sleep, feeling much better today after the vaccination, feeling slightly nauseous and having cold shivers despite two duvets last night; for a fun 50 th birthday celebration of Saul Chait at Zest, for Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 81 of Level 1, 20 May 2021

Thursday 20 May 2021, Day 81 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for another fabulous day, they are just getting better and better 💙; for the luck of a 4th restaurant added to my Client Portfolio today, pinching myself to check if this is real; for the excitement of working with a brand new restaurant, opening next month, attending a glassware selection and cocktail tasting today, oh what fun, meeting new suppliers and reconnecting with the mixologist Aidan Powrie, whom I hadn’t seen in 2 years; for collecting my poppyseed roll order from Dinkel Bakery; for amazing reaction to a Dinner Bed & Breakfast promotion Utopia is running with the Villa Rosa guest house in Sea Point; for a chatty Status Meeting and Dilmah Earl Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 67 of Level 1, 6 May 2021

 

Thursday 6 May 2021, Day 67 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a successful day; for getting up early to finish all my work so that I could squeeze in a power walk up 100 Houghton Steps, and coming down my secret Bakoven lanes with a total of 100 steps, being protected against the very strong Southeaster, receiving 300 Discovery points; for my Dinkel poppyseed rolls being ready for me; for an interesting meeting at Origin Roasting, drinking a lovely Nigiro Earl Grey Bloom tea; for a good Utopia Status meeting with Dilmah Earl Grey tea, crowned by a rainbow; for a quick pop in at Grand Pavilion, but the owner wasn’t there; for a cosy soup-in-bed evening; for Kfm playing great music to finish my steps for today; and for being happy, healthy and free. 🙏💙 Continue reading →