by Greg Landman | Jul 22, 2025 | OUT AND ABOUT
When you have created a restaurant so famous and so fully booked months in advance that even Ellen DeGeneres cannot get in, you know that you’ve got something great. The person we’re talking about is Luke Dale Roberts and the restaurant was the famous The...
by Greg Landman | Jul 17, 2025 | OUT AND ABOUT
Very well known for the brilliance of their Pasta and meat dishes, Scala is also on Heritage Square where the previous week’s restaurants were, so we headed across there to try the fabulous Dolci, which were, to say the least, spectacular. See my previous reviews on...
by Greg Landman | Jul 17, 2025 | wine of the week
The home of Chenin is the Loire valley in France but when the French Huguenots fled to South Africa in the 18th century they brought with them, not only this remarkable grape, but their expertise in making superb wines from it. Many of them settled in Franschhoek,...
by Greg Landman | Jul 10, 2025 | OUT AND ABOUT
A winter tradition returns. Fairview’s much-loved Shiraz & Shanks Evening is back on Friday, 15 August—and if past years are anything to go by, seats won’t last long. Chef SJ Nel will present a heartwarming feast of flavour in four suitably indulgent courses...
by Greg Landman | Jul 9, 2025 | OUT AND ABOUT
Between 1899 and World War 2 thousands of Japanese men and women moved to Peru’s central and northern regions to work in sugar and rubber plantations. Today of course we think of Japan as one of the most prosperous countries of the world and that kind of story seems...
