November has seen the opening of new restaurants Spek & Bone by Chef Bertus Basson, Baconville by Richard Bosman, The Vine Bistro at Glenelly, The 41, Sunset Café, Pizza Hut on Kloof Street, Bon Appetit Keam Restaurant, and more.
We update information about newly opened and closed restaurants continuously, and welcome information.
Restaurant Openings
# The 41 has opened in Camps Bay (photograph) Continue reading →
October has seen the opening of new restaurants Faber at Avondale, The Vine Bistro at Glenelly, The Grand Beach Café, Tiger’s Milk Bryanston, Chefs, The Station on Bree, and more, as well as the re-opening of The Test Kitchen, with a number of November openings (including two restaurants by Chef Bertus Basson) imminent.
We update information about newly opened and closed restaurants continuously, and welcome information.
Restaurant Openings
# A new bar, light eatery, and dance club The Station on Bree has opened (photograph). Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Meetings Africa was opened in Johannesburg by Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom today, the leading business tourism expo, and runs over three days. Johannesburg is attracting global events, including the following forthcoming business events: Breakbulk Africa 2015, CIDESCO World Congress from 20-25 May, the Summit on Healthy Ageing from 30 July to 2 August, Johannesburg International Motor Show from 14-25 October, as well as the 2016 Africa & Middle East Conference of Junior Chamber International from 4-6 May 2016.
* Our country’s newest low-cost local airline Skywise will take off on 5 March. The airline has been welcomed by SA Tourism: ‘We wish Skywise every success, and we look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship that will help grow tourism in South Africa‘. Initially two return flights per day between Cape Town and Johannesburg will be scheduled, with Durban to follow over time.
* World Travel Market (WTM) Africa will be held in Cape Town from 15 – 17 April, with 400 exhibitors, and Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* British Airways has been fined R21,7 million by the South African Competition Tribunal for fuel surcharge price-fixing with Virgin Atlantic between 2004 – 2006, on the SA and UK routes.
* Cape Town and Camps Bay have been featured in the Indian dance show ‘Dare2Dance‘, SA Tourism Country Manager for India Hanneli Slabber having sent links of two videos. The Camps Bay dance scene with a blindfolded dancer on a platform dangling above the ocean, with Camps Bay in the background, is breathtaking, and sure to create huge interest in the suburb.
* Hermanus is one of nine ‘The best places in the world to be right now’, according to The Daily Telegraph, for a ‘front- Continue reading →