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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 110 of Level 1, 18 January 2022.

 

Tuesday 18 January 2022, Day 110 of Level 1 đŸ˜·

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for glorious light rain this morning and being cooler at 21C today; for a hard working day, finishing a restaurant review, and posting for my clients; for a Bakoven and a Camps Bay walk; for receiving a Healthy Foods Cashback from Discovery; for Gift coming to clean a litter hotspot off Tree Road in Camps Bay; for Minsky surviving a dash across Victoria Road while I stood there, fearing the worst with traffic coming past đŸ˜żđŸ˜»; and for being happy, healthy and free. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Restaurant Review: Cabo Beach Club schizophrenic mass dining, with second Violet Restaurant, better than Shimmy !

 

My friend Gary Peterson invited me to choose a restaurant at which to celebrate my December birthday. I was eager to try Cabo Beach Club, the former Shimmy, in the Waterfront, as I needed a sounding board as I was not expecting much in respect of its food offering, despite knowing that Chef Ryan Cole of Salsify at the Roundhouse is in charge of the restaurants at Cabo. I had a feeling that this restaurant visit might become similar to the one to the renovated The Winchester Hotel and its disappointing Shoreditch Restaurant, a previous outing with Gary.

Cabo Beach Club is similar to Shimmy in its layout, but different in many other respects. Continue reading →