Who is the Foodie? It doesn’t really matter. Bacon is god. Wine cures anything. If you believe those two facts, then we’re going to get on fine. This means you have discovered the power of food to make life better. This knowledge is imperative to the art of living well.
So I’m not really big on posting recipes. Why? Well, let’s be honest, there’s a ton of recipes out there already and I’m not exactly Marco Pierre White, even though I’m dying to read his autobiography. I just like to cook shit. Though I can’t even follow recipes myself, seriously. There are really two types [...]
Posted in Eats, Libations, Side orders on 10. May, 2011
I get asked the ‘where to go for what’ question a helluva lot. Regular text messages like: “Restaurant recommendation please, bud. First date, somewhere cosy. Oh, drinks after? Thanks.” Phone calls where I end up discussing the merits of how important atmosphere is versus food. Emails from people saying they’re going to Paris and want [...]
Posted in Eats, Restaurants on 26. Apr, 2011
Forget the overhyped reopening in the new premises that never happened, Massimo‘s pizza joint is back. Open in their old premises, which are more than adequate, I went for a meal on Friday and can only tell you that the expectations of greatness were more than satisfied. The restaurant is in that small centre with [...]
Posted in Eats, Restaurants on 09. Mar, 2011
The Eggs Benedict at Bistro 1682 at Steenberg estate. Frontrunner for the best Eggs Benedict in Cape Town in my book. The best in the country? You tell me otherwise. Served on the classic potato rosti, eggs softly poached and smothered in perfect Hollandaise. But what gives it the real edge? Yes, my swine-loving friends, [...]
Posted in Eats, Side orders on 04. Mar, 2011
The Lobster Roll. Glorious, isn’t it? You can pick ‘em up all along the east coast of the US at little roadside lobster shacks, and they’re AWESOME. The worst part about looking at these is you can’t go get one anywhere in Cape Town. Why don’t we get the local equivalent of these? It’s crayfish [...]
Posted in Eats, Restaurants on 04. Feb, 2011
What a lunch. Myself and a friend, writer and fellow maniac also named David hit up Luke Dale Roberts’ new spot for a bite, and it was mostly memorable. Mostly, huh? Well, if it wasn’t for all the Pinot Noir we drank, it’d probably all be memorable, but hey, you can’t keep every memory, so [...]
Posted in Eats, Restaurants on 22. Jan, 2011
I’m probably the last person to care about how a restaurant looks. I’d rather eat great Asian noodles bought from a dodgy cart on the side of the street than average noodles (which are street food anyway) served with ornately painted chopsticks in an expansive restaurant. That said, when you get great food in a [...]
Posted in Bacon, Eats, Restaurants, Side orders on 01. Nov, 2010
I’m not sure how many of you have thought about your last meal, but I’m sure a few have. The very last meal you get to eat on earth, what would you choose? It’s a toughie. Well, it was for me, until a good friend emailed me this beauty. Ladies and gentlemen, lovers of swine [...]
Posted in Eats, Restaurants on 20. Oct, 2010
Being based in Cape Town makes it easy to assume all great things happen in Cape Town. Or it’s a self-defence mechanism to hide the fact that we all very well know that there’s a lot of great stuff happening in Joburg and one or two good things in Durban. And a few things elsewhere. [...]
