most freakin' awesome idea

check these guys out. they just started a social justice business that sells you a (really good) coffee or lemonade for tien rond in the comfort of your car. Look out for them at a robot near you! or hire them for an event.
http://www.mo-vend.co.za/

summer concerts

this is very overdue but it involves farryl purkiss, kirstenbosch, a sunset, a pan bagna*, lollipops, hairwraps, friends and many wishes about being able to dance like Inge Beckmann.

*this is a delicious lunch and recipe follows

Pan Bagna:
Buy a round loaf from Knead, and cut off the top disc in one piece so that you'll be able to close the loaf again, then scoop out all the soft bread, leaving about a cm on the inside of the crust (i'd suggest you then eat this with pesto), brush the inside of the loaf with olive oil. Pack in delicious mezze style ingredients in layers, alternating with salt and pepper and squishing it down. you can use what you like but i love using ripe tomatoes, basil, olives, thick slabs of mazzarella, sun-dried tomatoes, rocket, pesto, and if you like salami or parma ham etc. (basically anything yummy with bread). when firmly filled, drizzle a little extra olive oil, pop the lid back on and clingwrap tightly, then place in the fridge overnight under something heavy. Next day, cut into wedges like a cake. Preferably at a picnic. At Kirstenbosch. Listening to a Summer Concert. As the sun slips behind the mountain.

deluxe coffee

this is a short post so that you can stop reading it and get to deluxe coffee in church street now.
it is ten rand a cup for the BEST coffeee in cape town.

a note

charly's is open again! they're back from holiday :)

Get your Fix

Cafeen is somewhere between claremont and kenilworth and apparently closes pretty early. A friend and I were recently late enough to miss the waitresses, but early enough to buy some delicious take-away lemon meringue and chocolate cake from the friendly owners, who seem like the kind of people and the kind of place you just want to hang around with. So we did. On a bench outside, on a warm spring afternoon in cape town, just soaking up cafeen's prettiness. It's on 3rd avenue and begs a visit. Did I mention that the lemon meringue was positively scrumptious?

not a Blonde joke

Blonde is the sister restaurant of Beluga and Sevruga-both have halfprice sushi on weekday evenings-and part of the Caviar family. Blonde is in a beautiful old house in lower gardens, and get this-until the end of august, EVERYTHING on the menu is halfprice! Tonight one hundred paid for bottled water, reserve bottle of white wine, amise bouche of pea soup, pate and bread platter, dukkah-infused duck main and an amazing pudding - including tip :) admittedly a lot of that was shared between seven girls but still left with a full belly and a happy heart.

"it's not a polaroid if it was photoshopped"

Definition of Hipster (as supplied by Raqel Cherry, studying music at Masters, Calif.; the quintessential but original hipster in denial):



"those people who are always at cool places before anyone else knows about them who carry polaroids and comb their hair back. They wear plaid shirts and skinnies with prescription nerd glasses."


The same genius minds that created the neighbourgoods market in Woodstock have fashioned a little hipster heaven in Woodstock. next door to the What if the World art gallery and just below gorgeous second hand store, Afraid of Mice; Superette is a glowing hideaway in manky, downtown Albert Road, that’s quickly developing a really cool nyork/Brooklyn feel.

Contempory furniture and a homely vibe, with a changing daily menu and oddly delicious cakes that will make you wish the menu didn’t change everyday. Possibly the best breakfast sarm in all of cape town and lunches assembled from fresh and local ingredients, monthly dinner club.

The blog here.