In less than a week after opening its newest Tiger’s Milk Restaurant & Bar on Kloof Street in Cape Town, the restaurant is operating smoothly, as if it has always been there. It is already busy, attracting custom with little marketing effort to date by the Harbour House Group. A hugely exciting attraction is that DJ René Tanguy will be playing at the newest Tiger’s Milk on Fridays, starting this week. It is the 26th Harbour House Group restaurant to open. Continue reading →
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Cape Town one of 120 cities celebrating The Global Party for charity this weekend!
Cape Town is one of 120 cities celebrating The Global Party this weekend, which began on Thursday and runs through until this evening, each of three parties per city and 360 parties in total ‘linking the world for a worthy cause‘ aimed at benefiting children through the 360000 VIPs, celebrities, and jetsetters attending. The Global Party theme this year is ‘Global Glamour‘.
The first Global Party was held two years ago, with 80 parties held. The event is to become an annual one from now onwards, and the proceeds from donations received and the monies raised through auctions will go to The Global Charity Trust as well as to local country-specific charities. The 120 parties per evening are live-streamed globally. The global parties are being held at an elite list of the world’s chicest nightspots, including Nikki Beach in Marrakesh, Paris’s Ozu Club, and The Savoy in London. Continue reading →
Grand Café & Beach Dinner & Show celebrates ‘all things grand’ and Mother’s Day!
I have met lovely Kim Kallie and her husband Iain and daughter Sarah Page Banner twice in the past two weeks. Last week it was at The Grand Café & Beach, at a function to publicise the new show ‘Mom and Me‘ that will be performed by mother and daughter duo Judy Page and Kim Kallie from 10 – 12 May, to celebrate ‘all things grand’, Mother’s Day, and the special relationship between mothers and their daughters.
Judy Page is a well-known singer who has lived in Johannesburg for most of her life, a grande dame of theatre, who has had lead roles in the major Broadway and West End musicals. She told me that she has won three Naledi Theatre Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award recently. She loved performing with orchestra leader Gerry Bosman. She is a performance coach now for her agent, training up ‘seedlings’, she said.
Kim Kallie, using her mother’s maiden name as her stage name, was our country’s biggest recording artist in the mid-Eighties, and performed Madonna’s music under her second star name ‘Margino’, when Madonna prohibited her music from being played in our country. She had lead roles in ‘Evita’ and ‘Tell me on a Sunday‘, and achieved double gold, before moving to London for ten years. She and her family moved to Cape Town recently.
Judy Page and Kim Kallie will perform under the direction of Johan Laas, who will accompany them on piano. He was the Musical Director of ‘Idols’ for ten years. The programme includes classics such as ‘Moondance’, ‘Desperado‘, and ‘Feeling Good’, Lloyd Webber hits, as well as a musical journey around the world to ‘Amsterdam‘, ‘Spain’, ‘Paris in Springtime‘, and ‘Barcelona’. The show will include theatre too.
While we did not hear Judy and Kim perform, we did get a taste of Grand on the Beach Chef Greg
Beaverstock’s new winter menu, and received a printed copy of the menu for the show evenings. Chef Greg was previously at the Five Flies, and will be serving a three course meal, with starters of fish cakes, a winter salad, and carrot and red lentil soup; mains of braised beef ‘pot au feu‘ or line fish with a wild fennel and ginger
sauce; and a dessert of lime-chocolate tart with almond ice cream, which was one of our lunch dishes.
Having met both Judy Page and Kim Kallie, and given the calibre of their talent, ‘Mom and Me’ is sure to be a very special evening out with the girls and their moms. I enjoyed meeting Jane Lello, who handles the marketing for Grand Africa, the holding company for all the Grand properties in Cape Town and Plettenberg Bay.
Grand Café and Beach, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. ‘Mom and Me’, 10, 11 and 12 May at 19h00. Tel 072 586 2052. www.grandafrica.com Twitter: @GrandAfrica Tickets www.webtickets.co.za R 450 includes Dinner and Show.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage