Hallo and welcome to my blog! Eatdrinkcapetown was created to share with you the wonderful experiences I have with food, cooking, travelling and just living in Cape Town. I also share easy everyday recipes – to find them, just click on Cook It in the top righthand corner of the home page. Categories: Look at…
Foxcroft: Flavour Bombs & Food as Couture
Fancy food makes me nervous. I worry I won’t get enough to fill me up, or that I’ll be too dim to understand it. Fear not at Foxcroft. The chefs there slay. You’ll be enchanted, sure – the plating is bewitching – but these are cooks who aim to please a hungry eater. They serve…
Druk My Niet Rises From The Ashes
Endurance in the face of adversity is one of the most admirable human qualities. Like most of the Peninsula, I watched in shock and horror as news came of Druk My Niet’s devastation in the fires that swept through the Cape Winelands in January 2017. It seemed impossible at the time that there could be…
Cooking with Angostura Bitters from Starters to Desserts
For hundreds of years bitters has been considered an essential ingredient in many cocktail recipes, but did you know that it can also be a key ingredient in your kitchen when preparing family meals or dinner party menus? The flavours of appetisers, entrees and desserts – everything from homemade baked goods to burgers – can…
4 Course Cardhu Whiskey Experience at CarneSA
Whiskey and Italian food can be best mates, yes or no? Find out for yourself at CarneSA this month, when maestro Giorgio Nava serves up classic Italian food with fine Scottish malt whiskey for the Cardhu Whisky Experience at Carne SA. This 4-course journey of discovery takes place during the entire month of April at…
La Colombe Appoints New Executive Chef James Gaag
La Colombe Chef Proprietor, Scot Kirton is pleased to announce the appointment of current Head Chef, James Gaag, as Executive Chef. “James has headed up the La Colombe kitchen for the past 4 years, and at the young age of 29, has proved himself to be one of the leading innovative chefs in South Africa….
Salt the Star at Paul Cluver Wines
SALT Restaurant at Paul Cluver Wines is stepping up for the annual Elgin Cool Wine & Country Food Festival. The picturesque Elgin Wine Valley will be a hive of activities during the festival weekend of 28 and 29 April, and the team at Paul Cluver can’t wait to share their amazing offering with visitors. A…
Top Value: GlenWood’s Fine Wine and Food Experience
Winemaker DP Burger describes the fruits of his labour at GlenWood estate as ‘food wines, made to be enjoyed with a fantastic meal’ and I’m not arguing. Great news that now, the beautiful estate tucked in a valley behind Franschhoek village is offering the GlenWood Fine Wine and Food Experience at a mere R395. The…
Gabriëlskloof: Botrivier Sublime Food and Wine
Four things make me fall in love with a restaurant: the way it looks, the way it feels, what’s on the menu and what the food tastes like, of course. In all these categories, Gabriëlskloof knocks it out of the park. Chef Frans Groenewald applies his classic training (serious skills at work) to create a…
Bartholomeus Klip Sunday Family Lunches
From Sunday 25 March till 29 July, you and your beloveds can enjoy a traditional Sunday Lunch feast at Bartholomeus Klip Farmhouse. Famed near and far for its exceptional cooking, regional wine list and beautiful gardens, this historic guesthouse is the jewel of Swartland country hospitality. I love me a slap-up tradional Sunday lunch with…
Elgin Cool Wine and Country Food Festival
Elgin Valley food and wine…uhm, that’s some place you stop at for padstal pies and juice, right? Wrong! The beautiful, blissed-out Elgin Valley actually holds some cracking good surprises. Since it’s only just over an hour’s very pleasant drive from Cape Town, with a big choice of accommodation and some seriously family friendly fun, with…