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.

Mandi Johnson-Aliverti visited Jardine Restaurant on Bree Street last week – a much loved and worshipped Cape Town fine-dining institution. She had the following to report back to a very jealous team.
“Consistently voted one of the best restaurants not only in the Mother City but in the country, Jardine was brilliant again last week. Not [...]

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Human Rights Day fell on a wonderfully warm autumn day in April of this year and Kate Rawbone, wine and food enthusiast from the Wedding Concepts team, ventured out into the Franschhoek winelands to explore and take some time out.
“When it comes to going out with my family and friends, there is always a plan, [...]

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During the Christmas holidays, like most people, we ate and drank too much but in doing so, thankfully, we also discovered this absolute gem of a place for lunch. Casual, totally relaxed and laid back, it’s very much a family run restaurant with country style food of the highest order lovingly prepared. We sat at [...]

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From within a once-abandoned warehouse at Granger Bay, the Grand Café & Beach Bar has been created on a stretch of white sand – its Cape Town meets St Tropez!
Its shabby chic with a difference. A 15m long white bar with cupid detail in the main dining area accompanied by a glittering chandelier suspended over [...]

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The Delaire Wine Estate at the top of the Helshoogte Pass between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek has, in our opinion, the best views in the winelands. So when they opened their recently renovated new restaurant Mandi and Richard from our travel team just had to drop by for lunch.
Says Mandi
“This really is a wow experience! The [...]

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This month our MD Richard took a couple of friends for dinner and says of the experience,
“Fine dining for carnivores, so if “meat is your treat” then this is the place to go during your stay in Cape Town.
Sister restaurant to critically acclaimed 95 on Keerom, Carne is tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac just [...]

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Rather than fine dining our taste buds tell us its all about great coffee and great pastry this month. So Kim and Kate, two cake connoisseurs from our sister company Wedding Concepts, were on the look out for a place to pick up a quick and tasty breakfast along with a good cup of coffee.
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Back to fine but casual dining this month; Christina – MD of our other company Wedding Concepts – shares with us her favorite July eatery.
“After walking the dog on the glorious Noordhoek Beach, with sandy feet and feeling rather windswept – a dinner at the Foodbarn is just the prefect finale to a great relaxed [...]

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We have had enough of fine dining for a while so instead this month we focus on a new contender for the best cappuccino in Cape Town. Our resident caffeine queen and director Christina had heard the rumours for a while, so last Saturday popped into Miss K to try it for herself. Situated on [...]

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This is a place for serious food lovers, but don’t expect formal dining, Bizerca is a wonderful vibey bistro, very down to earth and a real surprise. From the outside the place looks quite dull and even when you first walk in the décor is sparse and the setting fairly stark. However this is instantly [...]

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