{"id":6440,"date":"2010-01-29T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:20:04","slug":"allee-bleue-sweet-and-robben-island-sour-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/allee-bleue-sweet-and-robben-island-sour-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Bleue Sweet and Robben Island Sour Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award <\/strong>goes to Allee Bleue in Franschhoek, for laying on the most wonderful lunch on a perfect summer’s day 2 weeks ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Invited guests were hotel\/guest house owners\/managers as well as media representatives.\u00a0 The lunch was held in the new wine tasting courtyard, which looks very chic, the many staff were immaculately dressed in the Allee Bleue branded aprons and bow ties, and live music was performed.\u00a0 The lunch was prepared by lovely and ever-smiling Chef Dane Newton, and the starter was a Taste of the Sea Assiette, a seafood collection of salmon, crayfish, calamari and prawns, beautifully plated; the main course was an “Inside out sirloin burger”, with a potato galette served between a layer of sirloin steak and beef mince; and\u00a0a “Strawberry Delight”\u00a0pannacotta dessert was served.\u00a0\u00a0 The appointment of GM Wolfgang Leyrer, who joined Allee Bleue less than a year ago, has resulted in a most amazing transformation of the wine estate, has added picnics and the wine tasting lunch menu, and is expanding the wedding capacity of the estate, it being one of the most popular wedding destinations in the area.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the third Sweet Service Award Allee Bleue has won since the inception of the Sweet & Sour Service Awards over a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to the management of Robben Island, who have not operated their ferry Sikhululekile\u00a0to the iconic island for 2 weeks now, because a part has to be flown in from Germany.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the\u00a0third time in\u00a0four months that the R 26 million ferry has not operated, in periods during which Cape Town has numerous tourists visiting the city.\u00a0 The Sea Princess, with a capacity half of that of the Robben Island ferry, has been chartered for the time being.<\/p>\n

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The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are 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><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales <\/span><\/strong>newsletters on the <\/span>www.whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a> website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Allee Bleue in Franschhoek, for laying on the most wonderful lunch on a perfect summer’s day 2 weeks ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Invited guests were hotel\/guest house owners\/managers as well as media representatives.\u00a0 The lunch was held in the new wine tasting courtyard, which looks very chic, the many staff were immaculately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,14,20,248,22,21],"tags":[577,32366,32378,2351,3378,3380,3379,5,32373,2354,3293],"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