David the Foodie
September 8, 2010
11:39
Foodie Weekend: Houseboating.
They’re notoriously hard to reserve. I’d unsuccessfully tried to book twice in the last three years. The waiting period was always more than half a year. When a friend called recently to say he’d booked a houseboat on Langebaan lagoon for a weekend and wanted me to join, I was livid. How did he get [...]
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September 7, 2010
11:35
Blue Mountain Coffee.
Attending a coffee tasting is quite similar to a wine tasting. One big difference however, is at the end of a coffee tasting you don’t have red teeth, unlimited courage and a strange urge to tackle the winemaker’s dog and then take a nap in the car. Rather the opposite, actually. At the end of [...]
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September 5, 2010
12:00
Superette.
Superette is very much part of the ‘cool Cape Town’ scene. It’s partly the crowd, a mix of bohemian and hipster folk not short on style or scared to create their own. Plenty of cardigans, beards, stripey tops and enough Wayfarers for a Ray Ban advert. Plenty of pretty girls too (even the chef is [...]
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September 2, 2010
12:14
20 Great Moments in Booze.
1. Sneaking a swig of whisky out the bottle in the middle of the day. 2. Sipping gin & tonic on an international flight. 3. Drinking Zamalek out of a quart while sitting on a beer crate. 4. A big glass of red wine by the fireplace in winter while it pours down outside. 5. [...]
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September 1, 2010
17:17
Bos.
The coolest new pack you’ve seen around town is… ahahha, no, not vitaminwater! Eeucck! It’s BOS. A new locally produced range of iced rooibos teas. Simple, bright and bold, and yes, they all taste pretty good. Actually, not true, I didn’t really enjoy the Apple one. Couldn’t put my finger on it, but it fell [...]
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August 31, 2010
12:31
We Love Real Beer Festival.
There you have it. It’s about time someone threw something together that celebrated the love and joy that is Real Beer. If you have no idea what I’m referring to by the term Real Beer, these are naturally brewed beers made by independent brewers. Craft brews. No additives or strange ingredients. No mass global brands. [...]
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August 30, 2010
15:33
Monday happy. Yes. Eat.
No, I can’t really explain the Engrish headline to this post. It just made sense at the time when all I could do was think about eating this cupcake rather than writing about it. Go get one at Lazari now. Your Monday will be infinitely brighter for it. www.lazari.co.za
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12:02
Beaumont Vitruvian Launch.
I was lucky enough to crack a nod to the launch of Beaumont’s new flagship red blend, Vitruvian, on Saturday afternoon. It was pissing down in Cape Town so a welcome relief to head out to Botriver and the ‘partly-cloudy with scattered showers’ countryside. Wine launches can be smug affairs where the estate spends the [...]
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August 27, 2010
09:14
Table Thirteen.
Popped in here earlier this week. Always forget about it since it’s tucked away on a side road in Greenpoint, but have enjoyed every visit. Worth seeking out if you haven’t been. The vibe inside is a sort of casual opulence – think dark shades, white marble, mismatched chairs and chandeliers. The crowd is usually [...]
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08:20
Nominate Me, Get Bacon Karma.
Click that button (nominate me very quickly, it just takes a second) and then read below. Clicked it? Good. Okay, so apparently I’m not very good at reading competition rules. There I was thinking, “Why is everyone trying to get nominated more than once for these blog awards, the voting is the next phase.” Apparently [...]
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August 24, 2010
12:27
The Bacon Croissant Competition.
The nice folks at Eat In magazine hosted a bacon croissant competition this morning. And they asked me and a couple other foodies to help judge. Now for someone who’s idea of the perfect croissant is one with bacon in it, you can imagine the salivating that was going on from when I woke up [...]
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August 20, 2010
12:26
Negotiating Winex.
Walk into Winex. Hand over ticket, collect glass. Ignore silly clipboard thing they offer. Walk into hall and notice how fewer exhibitors there are this year. Which is good, since it’s not crowded like a Bangladeshi street market as before. But bad, in that you might not find some of the wineries you’re after. Plenty [...]
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August 18, 2010
14:56
Nano Croissants.
The next time you wake up and think to yourself, “Today I want to eat the tiniest croissant I can find for breakfast,” I know exactly where you should go: Manna Epicure in Kloof Street. They serve the smallest croissant in Cape Town. It’s dainty. It’s cute. It’s about the size of your thumb. Okay, [...]
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12:12
Bacini’s.
Every neighbourhood needs a cozy Italian restaurant. It should serve large bowls of steaming pasta and crispy pizzas fresh from a wood-fired oven. It should have plenty of Italian regalia like Ferrari flags, Serie A posters and old framed photographs of soccer teams on its walls. Table clothes should be chequered and plenty of staff [...]
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August 17, 2010
09:02
A Few Good Wines.
Spice Route Malabar 2006. I could go on about the Swartland terroir and superb fruit character and low-yield bush vines and how winemaker Charl is such a nice guy and yak yak yak yak, but I’d rather just say that Spice Route effectively put Eben Sadie in the Swartland (he was the original winemaker) so [...]
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August 12, 2010
08:48
Great Coffee Packaging.
Wow. How cool is this packaging? This has to be some of the best coffee packaging – actually some of the best packaging on anything – I’ve seen. It mixes New York TriBeCa cool with a patriotic springbok emblem. And rad colours. The whole thing is genius, really. Who is responsible? Well, that sharp designer [...]
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August 11, 2010
12:54
The Bacon Prayer.
One swine, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy bacon hath come; frying will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And prepare us our sandwich, a BLT feeds those whose hunger concerns us. And lead us not into vegetarianism; but deliver us from [...]
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August 10, 2010
11:28
Brandy or Whisky With Dinner? No thanks.
I’m perturbed by a new fad. It seems that to market their respective spirits, both whisky and brandy have taken to food pairing. This isn’t actually that new a thing, but recently it seems they’re really pushing it. I know that the whisky market is flying while the brandy market is drowning, so I can [...]
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August 6, 2010
12:26
Armitage’s 21.
There were almost thirty of us dressed in black tie. A huddle of penguins eager to smash some cocktails. Sharp suits and bowties. Gleaming smiles and a fair amount of slicked back hair. Plus one dude in a kaftan. Tomorrow we’d be The Hangover, but tonight we’re straight outta Goodfellas. A deadly tequila Old Fashioned [...]
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August 4, 2010
13:10
Egg Fried Rice.
I just cooked egg fried rice for lunch. This is like the peanut butter and jam sandwich of Asia. It’s pretty boring. Why’d I make it? Well, now might be a good time to tell you that I’m eating nothing but Asian food for a week. I don’t really know why. It’s an experiment. To [...]
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