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Restaurant Review: Lucky number Table Thirteen
A first visit to Table Thirteen, on the recommendation of Cormac Keane of Portofino, on a Saturday morning, was perfect in terms of service delivery, the generousness of the egg and bacon breakfast...
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Cape Town restaurant news: who’s hot and stirring?
The Cape Town restaurant scene has been buzzing this month, with a number of new restaurants opening, and an e-mail exchange creating the biggest restaurant stir ever experienced in the city. The...
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Restaurant News: Cape Town and Winelands restaurant winter specials
Cape Town’s restaurants are feeling the hospitality winter blues, with a large number of restaurants announcing their restaurant specials. The winter has claimed its casualties too, and there could be...
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Restaurant Review: Sloppy Sam not sloppy at all
A spontaneous invitation to join Cormac Keane, previous owner of Portofino, for dinner at one of his new favourite restaurants, led to the introduction to Sloppy Sam on Somerset Road in Green Point,...
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Restaurant Reviewer receives harsh ‘reviews’ about restaurant review
Rossouw’s Restaurants is South Africa’s only restaurant guide (Eat Out may have more glitz and glamour, but it does not come close to this ‘Platter’ equivalent to restaurants), and its owner JP Rossouw...
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Restaurant Review: Leaf Restaurant and Bar still very green, but good value!
It is a strange feeling to enter the newly opened Asian Leaf Restaurant and Bar in what was the location of two favourite restaurants – The Showroom and Portofino – in that the restaurant interior is...
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Celebration: Reaching the milestone of 1000 blogposts!
Today we have reached an exciting milestone on our Whale Cottage Blog, in that this is our 1000th blogpost. We thank our readers for their support in reading our blog, and for providing feedback, to...
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Chef Liam Tomlin flourishing at new Chef’s Warehouse & Canteen on Bree Street!
Liam Tomlin is the most internationally experienced and respected but one of the least known chefs working in Cape Town, despite having worked in our country for ten years. The recent move of his...
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Restaurant Review: TRUFFLE first ‘5 star 100% Halaal Fine Dining Bistro’ in...
The bottom end of Chiappini Street has housed two of my favourite restaurants in their time – Bruce Robertson’s The Showroom and Cormac Keane’s Portofino, both the talking point of Cape Town in their...
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Café Chic reopens with slick service, excellent cuisine, hands-on but...
Café Chic opened in Gardens in 1999, a Victorian building with a chic interior created by French owner Francoise Queyroi. A year ago the restaurant was closed and placed on the market, but has not yet...
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