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 [...]
We asked six Cape Grace staff members what they would like to do that they have never done before, and what is stopping them? Michael Liffmann, Food and Beverage Manager: I have never been skiing; I have the gloves, jacket and scarf but no snow! Malika van Reenen, Executive Chef: I’d love to drive a formula 1 [...]
Nowhere is Spring more spectacular than in the Cape and Signal Restaurant uses this season’s freshest ingredients for its new menu, starting tomorrow! Drawing on Executive Chef Malika van Reenen’s Cape Malay heritage, she has incorporated fragrant herbs and spices to create dishes like the bobotie-spiced springbok loin with parsnip puree, spiced mango pickle and [...]
Heritage is “that which we inherit” and is obviously of great importance to have a public holiday dedicated to it. It means so much but is hard to define as it is personal and collective all at once. Your personal heritage of culture, spirituality, language and especially food is shared by many. It’s this shared [...]
With 27 restaurants and 5 coffee shops and deli’s taking part in the Master of the Trade Routes Culinary Challenge in the V&A Waterfront, simply eating the designated dishes entitles you to be a judge in the People’s Choice Award, with a chance to win meal vouchers and an invite to the Gala Event. This winter [...]
Father’s Day means a day off for Dad and what better way to spoil him than with a delicious Buffet Lunch in Signal Restaurant followed by a Whisky Tasting in Bascule Bar. Once Executive Chef Malika van Reenen has filled you to the brim with her Cape Contemporary buffet, Dad’s gift of a whisky tasting [...]
Share in the anecdotes and opinions of La Motte Cellarmaster Edmund Terblanche and 40 like-minded guests at our intimate Wine & Dine Series at Signal in Cape Grace on 31 May 2012. We never fail to be impressed with the superb La Motte wines and eco-credentials like being Certified Organic, attaining Championship status with the Biodiversity [...]
The red carpet will be laid out for some world famous foodies at Cape Town’s Good Food & Wine Show from 24 to 27 May. Buddy Valastro (Cake Boss), Whitney Miller (MasterChef America winner) and Reza Mahammad (eccentric Indian cuisine personality) are just a few of the main attractions. There’s even something for the kids [...]