We have many fascinating creative chandeliers at Cape Grace designed by Jacques Erasmus – read more about them on a previous blog post. Here are our Top 5 chandelier photos. Tell us how many Jacques Erasmus chandeliers we have and you could win a dinner in Signal Restaurant to the value of R500. Join us [...]
Jane Swartz has been at Cape Grace since it opened fifteen years ago and her job is to look after the furniture, fabrics, artefacts and antiques – making sure everything is in immaculate condition. She knows off by heart what’s in every one of the 120 rooms and can recall every work of art and [...]
Given the theme of festivals, events and celebrations, we snuck into the world of Cape Grace’s florists to get an insider’s view on how they use flowers to enhance the festive atmosphere. This is what we found around the hotel and on the flower trolley:
Signal Restaurant entices diners with a new and exciting summer menu! It’s a journey through cultures and customs that have paved the way for the cuisines and time-honoured cooking methods we see today. With ingredients encompassing responsible and sustainable food practices and dishes crossing worldwide borders, we invite you to plot a course with us [...]
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 [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on Paul Cluver Wines’ owner, Paul Cluver. IF YOU COULD DO ANY OTHER JOB IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? My interest is in sustainability and ethical behaviour, so if I had the opportunity to do something else, then it [...]
The word “tapas” is derived from the Spanish verb tapar or “to cover”. To cover what you may ask? Well if you reference the book The Joy of Cooking, slices of bread or meat were used by Andalusian tavern goers to cover their glasses between sips to prevent fruit flies from dropping into their sweet [...]
Cape Culture manifests in many different forms and at Cape Grace it can be seen in the décor. Furniture, walls, drapes and fabrics are used as canvases to tell the stories of the past. The 17th century period setting is authenticated through the rare collection of over 300 pieces of original antique furniture, ceramics and [...]
Bold is beautiful when it comes to choice of flowers this Mother’s Day (it’s this Sunday in case you’ve forgotten!) and Cape Grace is taking its cue from recent royal wedding banquets, with colourful feminine blooms taking pride of place on the new Flower Trolley, parked right outside the Cape Grace entrance. There’s something so authentic [...]
Here are the top ways in which you can mark the day a little differently: 1. Instead of taking her a potted plant or bunch of flowers, buysomething longer lasting and present it to her already planted in the garden. 2. Look through your digital photographs and get some family pictures printed and framed, or set them up as [...]