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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gourmet burgers have been a thing for a while. We have a bunch of restaurants in Cape Town dedicated to providing those. Gourmet hot dogs have been tipped as the new big thing and a few restaurants such as The Power & The Glory have a gourmet dog on their menu, and one restaurant has [...]

I was honoured once again to be invited to the annual Eat Out DSTV Food Network Awards ceremony where they announce the Top 10 restaurants along with a few other awards. Held at the Westin Cape Town and attended by 360 people, it was a glamorous event. The who’s who of food were all there, including [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was flown up to Joburg by Cadbury’s to compete in the Bubbly Challenge. Most of my readers thought it was something to do with champagne, which is understandable. But it was actually the launch of the new Cadbury’s Bubbly chocolate. We weren’t sure what to expect, but it turned [...]

Rooftop farming is a growing phenomenon overseas, and it’s starting to catch on here. I believe urban agriculture, including rooftop farming, will be one of the important ways that we will reduce the carbon footprint (and potentially the price) of the food we eat. It will also be a way of circumventing the evils of [...]

It started as a bar tending training programme, but it’s now a global competition to find the best cocktail maker (mixologist). The competition takes place in over 40 countries around the world, and the winner from each of those countries competes in the finals, which are taking place in Rio this year. Running from the [...]

Before I start this review I must say that I’m very happy that La Med is no longer. Many people have expressed regret that La Med is gone because we all have great memories from there. The thing is, they were memories from many years ago. When last did you actually have a jol at [...]

Every year I get quite heavily involved in the Good Food & Wine Show as I believe it’s a major attraction in a foodie’s diary. You can read all about this year’s show in my review. This year I was even more involved, thanks to Cavendish Square shopping centre. They had a clever idea to [...]

I’m a documentary nut. If you look at the documentary review category on this site, you’ll see a stack of reviews. Those are just the ones I reviewed, I’ve seen many more. So you can imagine the Encounters Documentary festival is something I look forward to each year. This year I was asked to preview [...]