This is the place where you can find informed and inspiring choices of where to WINE, DINE, STAY and PLAY whilst you are on holiday in Southern Africa with us. Constantly updated - and with regular "real life" comments from our travellers - each section simply lists some of the favourite things we love doing in our City of Cape Town and as we travel OUT & ABOUT across Southern Africa and beyond.
We hope you feel inspired to try some of our choices and we would like to hear your thoughts and comments if you do.

Here is Part Two in our foodie feature where we share with you our chat with Giorgio Nava, Cape Town restaurateur of popular foodie hangouts like Mozzarella and Café Milano.  Enjoy our interview with him where we discover what makes him tick!

Giorgio Nava 
As the best import from Milan since Armani, this particular Giorgio is an Italian [...]

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In a city where restaurants open and close faster than you can tuck into a crab cake appetizer, there are two gentlemen in this fickle industry who – despite their vast differences – have somehow managed to get the recipe right.
With both of them currently operating at least five successful restaurants each in Cape Town, [...]

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If you want to taste top notch and real African food whilst in Cape Town (and we suggest you should!) then The Africa Café is the place to be seen.  A long time favourite and popular haunt for visitors from across the globe as well as locals alike, our MD Christina recently dropped in for [...]

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Renowned for its culinary pleasures, Franschhoek is getting a new and exciting addition to its food and wine portfolio.  Internationally-renowned chef Liam Tomlin will launch a cookery school in conjunction with Leopard’s Leap wine estate and wines near the end of 2011. 
After the roaring success of Tomlin’s Chef’s Warehouse cookery school in Cape Town, the school in [...]

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Vicki Sleet part time magazine editor and blogger extraordinaire has beaten us to it!  We wanted so badly and for some time now to go and sample the latest delights from French Toast, a new wine and tapas bar that has recently opened in Bree Street, Cape Town.

The restaurant is the latest addition to this [...]

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Cape Town is well known for its gourmet cuisine and fine dining restaurants and since it is such a multi-cultural destination, our food reflects this with many various offerings to choose from, originating from all corners of the globe.  And so with this in mind, we decided to bring you a list of our favourite [...]

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At Travel Concepts we love our fine dining and this last week has been the culinary highlight of the year for us with three huge reasons to celebrate.
Highlight one was that Luke Dale-Roberts, previously the head chef at La Colombe (consistently voted as South Africa’s top restaurant and last year voted 12th in the world) [...]

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Unfortunately the Italian soccer team headed home early from the Soccer World Cup in South Africa, but thankfully our Italian eateries in Cape Town stayed put (despite floods of tears). With lots of late nights in the office recently and lots of take-away pizza, the team got debating their favourite Italian restaurants in Cape [...]

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The winelands of the Western Cape are becoming increasingly famous for their gastronomic excellence and numerous wine farms can now boast having world class restaurants on site in this beautiful part of the world.
And arguably the most spectacular of them all has recently opened at the Waterkloof Wine Estate, situated on the edge of the [...]

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Our cricket loving Event Coordinator Kate Rawbone recently spent three weeks in India following the IPL cricket tournament and came back raving about real Indian food. That caused a great deal of heated debate amongst the team in the Travel Concepts office on which was the best Indian restaurant on our doorstep. So if [...]

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