May isn’t yet the depths of winter in Cape Town, but is the start of the storm season. With hindsight and history for guidance and stories of shipwreck disasters, you’d think there wouldn’t be any more shipwrecks along our coast. But alas, the ocean has other ideas. Here are our Top 5 stormy tales from [...]
Billed as, ‘The tastiest date on the SA culinary calendar!” Good Food & Wine Show Cape Town is on 23-26 May. So which famous foodies are going to be in town? You won’t mistake the craggy face of outspoken Gordon Ramsay, but you might not be quite as familiar with celebrity chefs, Eric Lanlard, Master [...]
Pinterest is a way of expressing who you are through sharing photographs. Some people use Facebook instead, but Pinterest is specific to images or videos and these can be categorised however you please. Pinterest.com doesn’t go in for great explanations – this is their succinct About Us: “Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing [...]
The red and blue open top City Sightseeing buses operate along two routes visiting the most scenic attractions around Cape Town and the peninsula. But instead of just meandering around aimlessly, why not see these sights from a new perspective; running a 5km route around them? Nicola Lockhart came up with the idea that there are [...]
SIGNAL RESTAURANT Mother’s Day is a wonderful tradition that honours mothers around the world. And even though there’s no way we can ever really thank her for all she’s done, at Cape Grace, we’re certainly going to try. Executive Chef, Malika van Reenen has put together another delicious Mother’s Day Buffet Lunch menu and at only R295 per [...]
Variety is the spice of life and this month’s events gives testament to that. Here’s our choice of what’s going on in and around Cape Town this May: 12 May: Mother’s Day How are you going to show your Mother how special she is today? Read our next blog post on 8 May and book [...]
Some of our very best South African authors are at the Franschhoek Literary Festival on 17, 18 & 19 May, alongside multi-million selling international authors. Here’s our Top 10 Pick of What’s On at the festival – see here for the full programme and there may still be time to get a ticket on Webtickets: [...]
At Cape Grace we always have a story to tell – it’s in our history, it’s shown in our décor and it’s alive in our staff. With this year’s tale emphasising HISTORY, PLACE and the FUTURE, Signal’s interactive Wine and Dine series promises to be another memorable event. Focussing on what Cape Town and her [...]
Twitter alerted us to a new idea of Pop-Up Health Dinners (raw, vegan or sometimes with meat or fish) run by two inventive young ladies in Cape Town under the name of ‘Forage to Feast’. The dinner location was only disclosed on the day – other than that it was somewhere in Bakoven – and [...]
Imagine 35 tons of cheese being bought or tasted over one long weekend! This enormous variety of cheese is only found once a year in South Africa – at the SA Cheese Festival ! It’s on from 26 to 28 April at Sandringham outside Stellenbosch. Nataniël will be at the helm of the Checkers Theatre [...]