There’s more to team spirit than rugby! Here at Cape Grace we have taken the words more literally and worked out how to team our spirit in strange and innovative ways – I am talking food and whisky and we’re doing it in the Bascule Bar! Whoever thought that chocolate and Glenmorangie LaSanta 12 year [...]
It’s Heritage Day on 24 September, otherwise known as National Braai Day! Here are our top 5 braai equipment gift ideas to please the braai-master… 1. Beer koosie. Those wrap-around sleeves that keep cans cold come in rainbow colours or customised. 2. My apron says “Domestic Goddess” and has a body to match. What does [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on the owner of Rustenberg Wines, Simon Barlow. Have you always wanted to be a winemaker and did you start out as one? I started out as a Viticulturist in 1978 by mistake. If you could do any other job in [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on Thelema Mountain Vineyards winemaker, Rudi Schultz. Have you always wanted to be a winemaker and did you start out as one? Yes, it was my first choice as a profession. If you could do any other job [...]
It’s going to be early rising for the celebrity chefs staying at Cape Grace as they’re all taking part at this year’s Good Food & Wine Show! Demonstrations run from 26 to 29 May – and it’s all happening at the CTICC. Tickets can be bought in advance from Computicket. Here’s a quick run-down of [...]
Cape Grace F&B Marketing & Research Executive, Mandy Rutherford, reminisces about days gone by. Remember when you were little and there were no worries of MSG, ADD or obesity? When bread was wholesome and milk came from a cow… in only one flavour? An all-time summer favourite has to be – what can only be [...]
Some of the world’s best chefs will be at the Good Food & Wine Show (CTICC, 26-29 May) and at the end of each day they will return to Cape Grace for some home-grown Cape Town hospitality. Making his first public appearance in SA, English culinary alchemist, Heston Blumenthal is known for his outlandish combinations [...]
With Royal Wedding Fever coming to an end, did you ever stop to imagine what it must have been like for the chef in charge of all the catering? With over 10 000 canapés and a full breakfast buffet for six hundred people, it certainly wasn’t a job for the faint hearted! Then, as now, [...]
Step 1 – Tilt the glass and look at the colour for clarity and depth. Step 2 – Swirl the wine to release its ‘nose’, and then put your own nose deep into the glass and take a good sniff. Think what it reminds you of and don’t be concerned if that includes old socks, [...]