It’s only 24 hours until the 2013 Taste of Cape Town food festival opens its doors! This unique open-air event, held annually at the Green Point Cricket Club, will once again feature Cape Grace’s Signal Restaurant, together Cape Town’s other finest restaurants, award-winning wineries, premium drink brands, artisan producers and boutique exhibitors. Signal’s Executive Chef [...]
Our blog theme this month is food and fun, so here’s a fun suggestion that’s proving very popular! Have you been on the False Bay coast when the vintage Atlantic Rail train let’s off steam? This wonderful old steam train chugs along one of the most scenic tracks in the world and blows its whistle [...]
Have you been fooled today? Let us help you find something to laugh about all month with this rundown of April funnies: Monday’s stand-up comedy at Alexander Bar Upstairs Skip the after-work traffic and get happy with top local and national comedians at Alexander Upstairs. Show starts 7pm and lasts roughly an hour. Tickets [...]
It’s that time of the year again; The Klein Karoo National Arts festival (KKNK) will be taking place from 29 March – 6 April 2013 in Oudtshoorn. This annual Afrikaans festival includes visual as well as performing arts and has earned the title of the largest South African Festival, based on the number of visitors [...]
Don’t be put off by the name of this public arts festival, because it’s all about how people going about their daily lives can be affected by the arts through unique performances, artworks and installations. Cape Town is the backdrop, public spaces are the stages and the passing public are the audience to a mesmerising [...]
We know you like a quick list of events, so here is what’s on for the rest of March, grouped in topics of interest: Music & Festivals: Ramfest is South Africa’s alternative rock festival held in Riviersonderend (7-10 March). Cape Town Carnival (16 March) SA Navy Festival, Simon’s Town (16 March) Flamjangled Tea Party, Durbanville [...]
Mandy Rutherford and Jana van der Spuy visited Design Indaba on 1 March 2013 to see what exactly the hype was about – and what an experience! Loaded with design flair and interesting gadgets, there really was something for everyone. One of the main attractions was the Woolworths sponsored exhibit showcasing Li Edelkoort, the highly [...]
There’s been an array of fashion-forward events all over Cape Town recently, and nothing brings out the best dressed more than horse racing and polo. Cape Town has more than its fair share of these; January’s L’Ormarins Queens Plate, the J&B Met in February with their Dress to Fly theme and tomorrow’s Veuve Clicquot Polo [...]
Ardmore ceramics and designs are so unusual and exotic that when Africa Nova (supplier to the Cape Grace shop) puts Ardmore on the display shelf above the reception desk, people have an instant desire to buy them. That’s fine – they are for sale! Ardmore is one of South Africa’s greatest design success stories, with [...]