Tuesday 16 November 2021, Day 47 of Level 1 đ·
Corona Gratitude đ
#grateful for a warm 24C days, ahead of a day of rain forecast and clouds rolling in; for a calm and peaceful working day; for a walk to Bakoven at lunchtime, and to the Tidal pool late this afternoon, seeing a structure on Camps Bay Beach, intended to represent the dream of a Beach Bar in a TV commercial; for our Day/Night and Garage Door problems fixed today; for Minsky coming back safely early this morning đ»; and for being happy, healthy and free. đđ Continue reading →
I could not think it possible that the Eat Out Awards 2018 could be so refreshingly different, but it appears that new Head Judge Margot Janse has created a fresh new look at the restaurant judging criteria. Many of our top old-guard chefs took a severe beating at the Awards last night! 
On 5 April Chef Heston Blumenthal will receive the Diners Club Lifetime Achievement Award at the World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards in Melbourne, it was announced last week. Chef Heston owns The Fat Duck in Bray, which was at the top of the World’s 50 Best Restaurant list in 2005, and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London, the 45th World’s Best Restaurant, which I visited for lunch last July. 
A number of records were broken last night when 94 wines and one brandy were awarded 5 star status at the launch of the Platter’s by Diners Club South African Wine Guide 2017 at the Table Bay Hotel, a new venue, the event having been held at the Mount Nelson for years. The colour of the 2017 Platter’s Guide is Harvest Green.