{"id":7688,"date":"2010-04-16T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2010-04-16T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:03:40","slug":"gold-restaurant-sweet-and-cape-talk-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/gold-restaurant-sweet-and-cape-talk-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Restaurant Sweet and Cape Talk Sour Service Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award <\/strong>goes to Gold Restaurant on Strand Street, its owner Cindy Muller, and its PR agency Hazell PR’s Jacqui Jones,\u00a0for the invitation to a dinner at the Africa-inspired restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0 The welcome\u00a0after one has walked through the Gold Museum, the facade of the building to the outside world,\u00a0is by means of a surprise hand wash and dry\u00a0by the staff – a nice touch.\u00a0\u00a0 Prossy, who hails from\u00a0Uganda, took us on a Cape Malay and African Taste Safari throughout the evening, serving 5 small starter portions, 6 small main portions and 2 desserts.\u00a0 Beautifully painted plates and bowls in strong colours are brought to the table regularly, in which one can spoon one’s choice of food (examples are peri-peri prawns with oranges, smoorvis, roti, couscous, West African peanut chicken, and boeber dessert).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The staff are beautifully dressed, in a layered look, with lots of orange, and also gold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The bread is served in a flower pot.\u00a0 Entertainment is offered, and the many German tourists take photograph after photograph, loving the dancing of the staff, the Mali puppets, the Congolese drumming, and the singing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award <\/strong>was nominated by George Bogdan, and goes to Cape Talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“The more I listen to Cape Talk 567 the more it frustrates me for being such an amateurish radio station!\u00a0\u00a0It continually tells its listeners it is Cape Town’s Number 1 News and Talk station. It is Cape Towns ONLY<\/span><\/strong> News and Talk station!\u00a0 <\/em>The problem goes further than that. Every\u00a0Saturday and Sunday and public holiday it plays hours and hours of Golden Oldies. Hardly News and Talk. It seems to have the smallest record library in the world. My collection of old records is bigger than theirs. If I hear Cliff Richard sing Summer Holiday or Congratulations one more time I will take my radio and throw it through their studio windows in Greenpoint!!!.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Easter weekend Eugene T Blanche is murdered so what does Cape Towns Number One “News and Talk Station” do?…..It carries on playing Golden Oldies all day.!!!!!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 Have the owners (Primedia) the Station Controllers or the Producers not listened to so called News station\u00a0around the world. In any country I have worked in (including being a BBC News Producer)\u00a0the music would have been dropped and we would have gone into “rolling news” mode.\u00a0 Here?…. NO…Carry on playing Cliff Richard etc.\u00a0 What happened on Sunday evening “could” be the start of something terrible but what does our Number 1 station do it carries on playing Golden Oldies.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes I know there were hourly bulletins but you can hardly can call them coverage.\u00a0 They also have a problem with the word ‘Allegedly”. They talk about alleged murders, car accidents etc. The murders, accidents are not alleged they are FACT. The people who are charged with anything to do with them are\u00a0 deemed to be allegedly connected with the event. When they are found guilty the alleged can be dropped.”<\/em><\/div>\n
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 info@whalecottage.com<\/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 www.whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a> website.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Gold Restaurant on Strand Street, its owner Cindy Muller, and its PR agency Hazell PR’s Jacqui Jones,\u00a0for the invitation to a dinner at the Africa-inspired restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0 The welcome\u00a0after one has walked through the Gold Museum, the facade of the building to the outside world,\u00a0is by means of a surprise […]<\/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":[3,124,20,248,21],"tags":[4205,4206,4134,4210,32366,32378,4201,4212,4208,4213,4209,4204,4200,4211,4202,4203,4207,4214,13,4215,32373,1771],"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