Cape Town is the first port of call for the Volvo Ocean Race after departing from Alicante in Spain on the 29 October. This is considered to be the toughest team sport in the world contested by crews of 11 professional sailors in temperatures ranging from -15 to +40ºC. In addition, since no fresh produce [...]
Bubbles have been on our mind since the launch of the book Celebrating Méthod Cape Classique in September. The section entitled “Cocktails with Grace” shares some of Bascule Bar’s cocktail recipe secrets. How about a Ciroc Sparkling Cosmo, Cape Gooseberry le Blanc, Chocolat Mousseux or Lady Grace? We have mentioned an award-winning Cap Classic in a previous [...]
Micro-breweries like &Union, Jack Black, Darling Brew and Napier Brewery have become incredibly popular with hip and happening Capetonians. They will be amongst over 20 breweries serving 50 different beers in seven brewing styles at the Cape Town Festival of Beer, 25-27 November at Hamilton’s Rugby Club in Greenpoint. It is a celebration of all things beer, bringing everyone together [...]
Standing at the water’s edge of the Cape Grace is the place to be on Saturday 26 November, because it is the finishing line for the first-ever “African” Oxford-Cambridge boat race. South African publishers Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press – who have strong links to the two British universities – are traditional rivals [...]
Welcome to the last Lesson of our monthly ‘menu deconstruction’. Don’t forget to keep these posts handy as we’ll be testing your knowledge in the form of an exciting competition in November. Lesson 4: Types of Sauces and Dressings AIOLI [eye-YO-lee] – The French word for garlic is “ail.” Aioli is garlic-flavoured mayonnaise made [...]
Those of us who live in Cape Town know that this statement is true, but can Cape Town Tourism convey this new marketing strategy to the world and encourage more people to come and find it out for themselves? This is what the new global marketing campaign, revealed by Cape Town Tourism CEO Mariëtte du [...]
There was no slouching in cells for Cape Town’s convicts at the beginning of the last century; they were put to work building the most scenic roads around the Cape Peninsula. This was teamwork with a difference (they were forced to be there in wind, rain and extreme heat) with team colours that no-one could [...]
British father and son actors, Timothy and Samuel West (Timothy being one of those ragged old faces you have seen in so many TV and film productions), are performing their hearts out playing father and son at The Fugard in a play called A Number. It’s a play that makes us look at the ethics [...]
The wonderful Belles pulling on the paddles of their bright pink dragon boat are the first Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat Racing Team in Africa. See them in action this Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the Dragon Boat Regatta at Zandvlei in Muizenberg on Saturday 15 October. The ladies will be competing in the dragon [...]
Do you always mean to go to great sounding events but they’ve come and gone before you know it? To prevent that from happening this month, here’s the heads up on some fun things to do in Cape Town this October to pre-book or put in the diary: 15 October: Dragon Boat Festival at Zandvlei [...]