A few months ago, I discovered a wine and jazz bar called Chet’s Jazz Café. I was on what I suppose you might term a “date night”, and the combination...
It’s a mixed bag, this blogging business. Sometimes you get verbally abused by people who disagree with you, which isn’t much fun. And sometimes you get extremely appreciative emails from...
On Friday night, I went on a bar crawl. No, this was not for fun – not for fun at all. It was pure business, I can assure you: research...
The other day, I booked a restaurant more or less entirely because it had a deal on offer. The friend I asked to come with me said I was getting...
It may surprise some of you (although probably not my fellow food bloggers) that I’m not exactly inundated with offers of free meals in restaurants. In fact, most restaurants don’t...
Picture the scene: it’s Friday night, my plans for vintage champagne tasting have been unexpectedly cancelled (I know – woe is me), I have no restaurant reservation… I ask the...
I have – with good reason – a great distrust of any restaurant that displays plastic food outside. As bad first impressions go, it’s right up there with insulting your...
Friday night was all quite exciting because I got “recognised”. You know, like Ruth Reichl before she started wearing disguises to eat in restaurants. I suppose technically it wasn’t my...
It’s been pop-up-festive-market-tastic these past couple of weeks. Last weekend there was the “Good Ol’ Fashioned Christmas Pop Up” from Dikke Lepel and MAKE ; the weekend before was BoxXshop...
