Here’s a look at life around Cape Grace’s West Quay in the V&A Waterfront as the 2012 Spring turns to Summer!
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Chauffeurs Top 5 recommended places to visit in Cape Town
Ever wonder how to find those wonderful places in Cape Town? Who better to ask than our Chauffeurs at Cape Grace who know Cape Town inside out. When you’re relaxing, the last thing you should have to worry about is getting around our beautiful city & searching for interesting places to go. From something [...]
TOP 5 CHANDELIERS PHOTO ESSAY
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 [...]
AUNTIE JANE’S TOP 5 FAVOURITE PARTS OF CG
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 [...]
CAPE GRACE FLOWER PHOTO ESSAY
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:
JOURNEY THROUGH A NEW SUMMER MENU AT SIGNAL
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 [...]
OXFORD – CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, AFRICAN STYLE!
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 [...]
UNDER THE GRAPEVINE WITH PAUL CLUVER
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 [...]
IT’S TAPAS TIME!
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 AT CAPE GRACE
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 [...]