{"id":35708,"date":"2012-08-27T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=35708"},"modified":"2012-10-02T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:37:24","slug":"liam-tomlin-food-to-relocate-to-cape-town-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/liam-tomlin-food-to-relocate-to-cape-town-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Tomlin Food to relocate to Cape Town in November"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Liam Tomlin Food, a joint\u00a0venture company with Liam Tomlin, Hein Koegelenberg, Hanneli Rupert-Koegelenberg and Berdine Neethling, is to relocate to Cape Town in November, the company announced today.<\/p>\n

Co-owner Hein Koegelenberg said in a meeting today that to be closer to their support base in Cape Town, it makes sense to move the cookery school to a Cape Town venue. \u00a0Chef Liam Tomlin is still running courses at the current venue in Franschhoek until the end of October, and will be one of a program of chefs who will be doing cooking demonstrations at Leopard’s Leap, and will continue as a consultant chef to Leopard’s Leap. The program could include a three Michelin star chef from the Institut Paul Bocuse school of cooking. \u00a0The new Leopard’s Leap tasting venue<\/a><\/span><\/strong> was officially opened six months ago.<\/p>\n

The move to Cape Town will co-incide with a food offering at Leopard’s Leap, given the demand expressed by winetasters. \u00a0Hein said that plans have not been finalised, but it is likely that cake and coffee, as well as chicken from their rotisserie will be sold with salads and bread. \u00a0Some of the space in the shop is likely to sell fresh foods to take home.<\/p>\n

In the media release Liam Tomlin is quoted as follows: ‘It makes sense to be nearer to our main support base and although we will miss the beauty of the Franschhoek Valley and its friendly people (not to mention having wonderful wines across the room from us!), we are also looking forward to being in the hustle and bustle of Cape Town’.<\/em><\/p>\n

To tie in with its Liam Tomlin Food culinary connection, Leopard’s Leap is launching a Culinary wine range, inspired by the French regions of Champagne, Loire, Rhone, Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Sauternes, each of the wines being suitable for pairing with specific foods. \u00a0The range will be available exclusively at the Leopard’s Leap tasting room in Franschhoek, and at the new Liam Tomlin Food venue in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Good news is that Harry Joubert, previously with the Brampton tasting room<\/a> in Stellenbosch, is the new manager of the Leopard’s Leap tasting room.<\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT 2\/10<\/strong>: Despite the media release published a month ago, and the interview I had with Hein Koegelenberg at that time, Liam Tomlin Food will close down at Leopard’s Leap at the end of October, and will not move to Cape Town, Hein Koegelenberg confirmed telephonically today, saying that it was not financially viable to open the cooking school company in Cape Town. \u00a0Chef Liam Tomlin will be available to Leopard’s Leap on an ad hoc consultancy basis. \u00a0Leopard’s Leap will start serving food from 1 November.<\/p>\n

Liam Tomlin Food: www.liamtomlinfood.com<\/a> Twitter: @LiamTomlinFood<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com <\/a> Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liam Tomlin Food, a joint\u00a0venture company with Liam Tomlin, Hein Koegelenberg, Hanneli Rupert-Koegelenberg and Berdine Neethling, is to relocate to Cape Town in November, the company announced today. Co-owner Hein Koegelenberg said in a meeting today that to be closer to their support base in Cape Town, it makes sense to move the cookery school […]<\/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":[3,124,14,20,21,19,293],"tags":[14185,5218,5944,32366,3770,32378,3854,16776,32369,16774,9383,4508,16775,4911,3769,14184,11585,32376,32373],"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