{"id":32713,"date":"2012-05-25T01:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T23:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=32713"},"modified":"2012-05-27T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T18:52:25","slug":"i-%e2%99%a5-my-laundry-sweet-and-sunday-times-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/i-%e2%99%a5-my-laundry-sweet-and-sunday-times-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"I \u2665 my Laundry Sweet and Sunday Times Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to\u00a0I \u2665<\/span> my Laundry, for its invitation to lady lifestyle bloggers to attend its Taittinger Heart FM<\/strong> After Eden function yesterday evening. \u00a0I\u00a0\u2665<\/span><\/span> my Laundry has been open for less than three months, and has already established itself as one of the most creative function venues, coming up with unusual food and beverage pairings and themes. Taittinger brand ambassador in South Africa, Mike Cox, shared that there are 20 million bottles of the champagne under maturation in Reims at any point in time, and that they produce 6 million bottles per year, with a minimum of 4 years maturation. Their product range is a Brut Reserve Non-Vintage, a Cuv\u00e9 Prestige Brut\u00a0Ros\u00e9, and a 2005 Brut Reserve. \u00a0The function was an opportunity for Tweeters and bloggers to connect, most not having previously met.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to the Sunday Times<\/strong>, which carried a full page advertisement last week, inviting readers to an ‘Exclusive Sunday Times movie screening’ <\/em>of ‘The Romantics’,<\/em> at Cinema Nouveau branches in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, and at Cavendish Square in Cape Town. When they arrived at the cinema, a number of angry and very disappointed moviegoers were turned away, as the movie was fully booked. \u00a0The invitation was not subject to a ‘first come first served’ clause, nor was a number given for one to call to book a seat. All one was asked to do was to bring a coupon contained in the newspaper ad to the cinema. The manager of the Cinema Nouveau Cavendish Square absolved his cinema of any responsibility, saying that it was the fault of the Sunday Times<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

The <\/span>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 <\/span>info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> <\/span>Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the <\/span>WhaleTales <\/strong>newsletters on the <\/span>www.whalecottage.com<\/a> website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to\u00a0I \u2665 my Laundry, for its invitation to lady lifestyle bloggers to attend its Taittinger Heart FM After Eden function yesterday evening. \u00a0I\u00a0\u2665 my Laundry has been open for less than three months, and has already established itself as one of the most creative function venues, coming up with unusual […]<\/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":[4795,3,124,20,21,19],"tags":[15882,3638,723,184,32378,1891,13913,15327,15883,502,9204,15881,8465,32373,1771],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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\n\t\t