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Pierneef à La Motte appoints Chef Michelle Theron as its new Executive Chef!

Pierneef a La Motte Michelle-Theron3-400x266Pierneef à La Motte has announced by media release that its Pastry Chef Michelle Theron has been appointed as its Chef de Cuisine from 1 May.  Chef Michelle has been at La Motte since the opening of the restaurant in 2010.

Chef Michelle takes over the kitchen from Chef Chris Erasmus, who is opening his own restaurant Folliage in Franschhoek in July.  Chef Chris leaves when the restaurant closes for its annual winter break on 15 June.  He took Pierneef à La Motte to an Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant last year.

Chef Michelle was involved from the beginning in the research and recipe development for the ‘Cape Winelands Cuisine’ cook book. She is inspired by leading female chefs such as Chef Margot Janse from The Tasting Room, Chef Clare Smythe from Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, and Chef Elena Arzak of Michelin-star restaurant Arzak. Continue reading →

WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 17 October

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   The Top 5 restaurants based on service in the UK are: Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London, The Fat Duck in Bray,
Carters in Birmingham. HKK in London, and Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester in London.  Perhaps Eat Out could add such an evaluation to its Restaurant Awards?!

*  McGrath Collection Executive Chef Peter Tempelhoff is opening Mondiall as a Brasserie in the former Green Dolphin Restaurant in the V&A Waterfront on 29 November with Patrick Symington, and Chef Oliver Cattermole as Head Chef. (received via media release from FIVESTAR PR)

*   Uma Thurman is the star chosen for the cover picture Continue reading →

WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 7/8 September

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   The first ever Canadian Braai Day will be held in Toronto on 21 September, to celebrate our South African heritage and wine culture, sponsored by Two Oceans and Nederburg wines.

*   The 2013 Champagne vintage could become as good as the legendary 1996, early analyses indicate.

*   The Northern Cape is the province with the second highest revenue derived from Hunting Tourism, earning it R 398 million per year, with a strong interest from Spanish, Danish, and American hunters.

*   ‘Sell stories, don’t sell wine‘ said 1WineDude American blogger Joe Roberts in his keynote address at the Nederburg Wine Continue reading →