{"id":27285,"date":"2012-02-17T07:53:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T05:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=27285"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:38:45","slug":"independent-newspapers-sweet-service-and-illyria-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/independent-newspapers-sweet-service-and-illyria-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Newspapers Sweet Service and Illyria Sour Service Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to Independent Newspapers, for its educational supplement ‘Your Cape Holiday Guide’,<\/em> which was inserted into the Cape Times, Cape Argus<\/strong> and Weekend Argus <\/strong>over the December holidays.<\/span> The 34-page supplement contained good editorial with suggestions for tourists and locals to discover the Cape, including Cape Town (Robben Island, Atlantic Seaboard, Table Mountain, New Year entertainment, \u00a0Cape Point, Kirstenbosch, Chapman’s Peak, Simonstown, Hout Bay), Hermanus, the Winelands, Tulbagh, the Klein Karoo, the Swartland, and the Elgin valley.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to Illyria in the Eikestad Mall, previously a favourite Stellenbosch coffee shop for its stylish decor and good Illy coffee. \u00a0I popped in quickly recently, asking for a cappuccino to be made, as I was heading for a concert, saying that I was dashing into Woolworths next door while it was being made. \u00a0No coffee had been made when I returned, the waitress Simone saying that I had not paid for the coffee upfront, and that she would have had to pay for the coffee if I had not returned! \u00a0She did not ask for payment when I placed the order. \u00a0She was very defensive, became rude, and refused to give her name and the contact details for the owners. \u00a0Her manager rushed in out of breath, having been called by the waitress, shouting abuse at me for my ‘website’<\/em> and what I have written about them (all has been positive so far), and refused to give me her name and the number of the owners. I left to attend the concert at the Conservatorium and put my phone on silent. \u00a0A barrage of 11 calls came from one cell number in one hour, which I could not take during the concert, and I was concerned that something terrible had happened. \u00a0I called the number immediately after the concert had finished, and listened to two messages that had been left by Ramon, the owner of Manouche restaurant and the co-owner with his sister of Illyria. \u00a0Both messages were abusive and threatening.<\/p>\n

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong> are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales <\/strong>newsletters on the www.whalecottage.com<\/a> website<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Independent Newspapers, for its educational supplement ‘Your Cape Holiday Guide’, which was inserted into the Cape Times, Cape Argus and Weekend Argus over the December holidays. The 34-page supplement contained good editorial with suggestions for tourists and locals to discover the Cape, including Cape Town (Robben Island, Atlantic Seaboard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,20,31,22,21],"tags":[338,837,661,1655,32366,838,32378,6546,32379,32377,697,6545,738,88,14316,14318,9428,14317,87,14315,2747,4,10845,32373,2354,32382,171],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t