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YiaYia’s Table a bakery honouring Greek family and passion!

 

I was invited by Kirsten Reynecke to try Yiayia’s Table in Mowbray, and did so in late December with my friend Gary Peterson, visiting the sit-down and delivery Café and Bakery on a Saturday morning.

Yiayia is the Greek word for grandmother, and is a dedication to granny Elli Parolis of the brother and sister owners of Yiayia’s Table, in the same shop in which their grandfather Jimmy ran a butchery and granny Elli had a tea room, both grandparents immigrating to Cape Town from the island of Lesbos. Granny Elli was a passionate cook, and spoilt her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren with her traditional Greek cooking and bakery.

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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 79 of Level 1, 18 December 2021.

 

Saturday 18 December 2021, Day 79 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a hot wind-free 28C day, Camps Bay jam-packed; for the disaster of our Ebbtide garage door no longer opening easily overcome by the wonderful Gary, who played Uber and fetched me in Camps Bay to get to our lunch date; for a successful Community CAMPS BAY CLEAN, spoilt as always by Emma of The 41 Continue reading →

Restaurant Review: Café Charles in De Waterkant disappoints with Lamb Curry Collection!

 

I am not a big fan of Take-Away food, it usually arriving cold, the delivery costs being exorbitant if one uses Uber Eats, and the presentation of the dish and atmosphere of the restaurant cannot be replicated in a Take-Away.

I wanted to spoil my friend Gary on a day forecast to be cold and rainy, a perfect day for Lamb Curry, which I saw advertised by Café Charles as a Take-Away Delivery or Collection during Level 4 Lockdown, before Sit-Down was allowed. Remembering a fantastic Lamb Curry delivered to me by the restaurant a year ago, I ordered a repeat of the dish ten days ago. Sadly the experience and food was chalk and cheese compared to that of a year ago! Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 16 of Level 4, 13 July 2021

 

Tuesday 13 July 2021, Day 16 of Level 4 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏 

#grateful for the sun being back, nice in the sun but very chilly at 14C max today; for a blue Monday and Friday the 13th all rolled into one, but with some highlight silver linings; for a lovely client meeting, planning ahead for the restaurant reopening later this month; for the lovely Drambuie miniature which Gary Peterson gifted me last week, washing the troubles of the day away; for a lunchtime walk through Bakoven and a late afternoon one in our garage to meet my step goal; and for being happy, healthy, and free.  Continue reading →