Relax with Dax

I’m usually quite involved at the Good Food & Wine Show, last year I did a cooking demo in the Cavendish kitchen and was also one of the judges of the stands at the show. This year I got to enjoy it as a visitor. Checkers and Computicket kindly gave me a ticket to see [...]

If you’re wondering whether you should visit Spice Route Estate, the answer is yes, definitely. Some may think it is tourist oriented, and it may well be but locals will enjoy spending some time there too. Read on to find out why. Spice Route estate is the old Siedelberg estate, next door to Fairview. It [...]

As JP Roussouw observed in his opening comments, meat is our national food. We love to eat it and we’re passionate about it. Steakhouses have been a a feature of the restaurant industry in South Africa for as long as we can remember. A steakhouse would have been one of the places where we learned [...]

Fine Brandy Fusion is a brandy festival which has happened in Johannesburg for the last 5 years. Now it has finally come to Cape Town! Taken from the Fine Brandy Fusion website: There is simply nothing like South Africa’s finest anywhere in the world.  Being the definitive  collection of South African brandy under one roof, [...]

SA does not have any restaurants in the top 50, but on the extended top 100 list we have the same 2 that we had last year, Tasting Room (up from 57 to 53) and Test Kitchen (up from 74 to 61). A nice additional accolade this year is that Test Kitchen was voted The [...]

I popped into Taste of Cape Town last night. It was the first session and I wanted to get a feel for this year’s event. I will be there again for the Saturday afternoon session to give it a proper go, but here are my initial impressions and some tips on things you should taste [...]

In November I was introduced to The Entertainer, a discount voucher book that is popular in several countries and was soon to be launched in Cape Town. For the first time I was impressed with a voucher book. The simplicity and value of the offering sold it for me, 2 for 1, anytime. I was [...]

This is the 3rd year I’ve attended the Classic Wine Trophy awards dinner. I quite like these awards as they are fairly small and quite unique from many other competitions. The uniqueness is for 2 reasons, firstly the judging is all done blind. The judges only know the style of wine, so that they can [...]

I think Ultimate Braai Master is definitely some of the best television produced in South Africa. I only got to watch about 7 of the 12 episodes in the first series, because the chances of me being at home at 8pm every Thursday are minimal. But you only needed to see one episode to recognise [...]

Churros are not common in Cape Town, despite being delicious. In fact, after an extensive search we only found 6 restaurants which serve them. So we tried them all and here are the results. Read our introduction article to learn more about churros. The primary judge was my secret sidekick, ‘Batman’, who has some pastry [...]

We love churros. It’s an awesome pastry, very popular in many countries around the world but not very common in South Africa. So we decided to find out who offers the best churros in Cape Town. Before we get into the details of the Churros Challenge, some more info on churros for those who are [...]

The inaugural Eat Out DSTV Food Network Conference took place this year, and I was lucky enough to be invited to attend it. Being the first one, we didn’t know what to expect. It was held at the Westin Cape Town on the Saturday before the Eat Out DSTV Food Network Top Ten Awards which took [...]

I’m doing a monthly food segment on 2OceansVibe radio. Covering interesting food related topics and what’s hot, new and happening on the food scene in Cape Town. This is my first spot and we chat about my London trip, sponsored by Virgin Atlantic. We talk about the Eat Out Conference and the Eat Out Top [...]

I was sent over to London for 10 days by Virgin Atlantic as part of their promotion of their daily direct flight from Cape Town to Heathrow. I wrote two posts on my experiences in London, which you can read here and here. This is my 2nd (and final) post dedicated to my food experiences [...]

I’ve been to London many times before but I’ve always been aware of the exchange rate and so was quite careful about how much I spent on food. This trip was a little different as Virgin Atlantic gave me a budget along with strict instructions to investigate the food scene in London. So that is [...]