Browsing the blog archives for May, 2010

Football tickets – Sales and Collection

Fans which have booked online will be delighted to know that the collection of their tickets is a quick and efficient process.  The office is based at 42 Hans Strydom (at the bottom of Bree st), and open seven days a week from 9am – 6pm.  I took my ticket reference numbers, ID and the [...]

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Book Launch – How 2 help, by Rebecca Hickman

“Of all the book launches at The Book Lounge, this book is the closest to my heart”, owner Mervyn Sloman introduced how 2 help, A guide to worthwhile causes in Cape Town. First published in 2003 it has been finally updated by author Rebecca Hickman with 46 projects in and around Cape Town, outlining their [...]

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Overture Restaurant on Hidden Valley Estate, Stellenbosch

I enjoyed the wonderful 8-course tasting menu this week at Overture restaurant, on Hidden Valley wine estate, near Stellenbosch. I thought initially that eight courses would be impossible and expected to work my way through around five before surrendering.  I was wrong.  Owner/Chef, Bertus Basson created eight light dishes, full of flavours.  Only eating vegetables and [...]

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Food & Wine Bloggers meeting

The first Food & Wine Bloggers meeting was hosted last night by Liam Tomlin at his new enterprise The Chefs Warehouse, a business offering cooking classes with top chefs and a shop with a deli and quality catering equipment. The two speakers with contrasting styles and experience openly shared their familiarity and challenges with blogging.  [...]

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Book Launch – Ivan Vladislavic, Flash Back Hotel

The Franschhoek Literay Festival brought many authors to Cape Town and lucky for us Ivan Vladislavic stayed on to launch his book Flash Back Hotel at the Book Lounge. Flash Back Hotel is a combination of a collection of short stories from Persons (1990) and Propaganda monuments and other stories (1996). Vladislavic was born in [...]

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The Franschhoek Literary Festival May 14-16

Now in it’s fourth year, the Franschhoek Literary Festival is becoming internationally recognised as the event to attend for authors, publishers, publicists and just about anybody interested in reading. The picturesque village was the ideal setting for the arrary of literary offerings, as we moved between the church hall, school hall and hospice in search [...]

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The Good Food & Wine Show May 13-16

The Good Food and Wine Show 2010 was well attended, mainly due to the appearance of Gordon Ramsay, whose cooking events and dinner were sold out in advance. Now in it’s eleventh year, the The Good Food and Wine Show is becoming an internationally recognised event, when you look at the line up of other internationally [...]

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Pongracz – who was he?

InformallyI asked 20 people if they had heard of Pongracz.  Everybody said yes of course.  Following on I asked if they could tell me anything about him and surprisingly nobody was able to. One of the top selling methode cap classiques in South Africa, Pongracz is named after Desiderius Pongracz, a hungarian viticulturist who made [...]

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