Category: Plate Up !
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Grace and Fineness
“There’s no pleasure on earth that’s worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People’s Home, Weston-Super-Mare” – John Mortimer 1923-2009 ‘Rumpole’s Last Case’ (1987) I make no apology for loving to explore the finer things in life if they…
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Nothing Wrong with a Gorgeous Puffy Pie
Who doesn’t eat pie? A pie is a pie is pie, but then there is THE pie at Olive and Plates, Exclusive Books, Hyde Park. Trying out Olive and Plates has been on my hit list for a few years, so when they replaced the not so popular, ultra swanky…
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Fine Dining on the Rocks
My first time at Harbour House, Kalk Bay, Western Cape, was over ten years ago. The position is what enables you to fall in love with this restaurant. Set up and aside from the popular Kalk Bay Fishing Harbour, the view is to dine for and the fish, quite obviously…
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Is Sun City Losing The Foody Sparkle
I love Sun City. I like relaxing there. I like eating there and I like roaming around there, but is it losing a bit of its foody sparkle? One could go to a different decent restaurant every night a year ago, bit pushed to do that now. Pool service at…
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The Diamond in the Hills of Addo
A birthday breakaway that I had been pining for… not hidden, not shy, but sitting proudly atop the beautiful hills overlooking the Sundays River Valley Addo region, near the Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, Hitgeheim Country Lodge truly meets everything you heart could want. Accommodation that…
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Plate Up: Mexican Grille oh Me-o Mi-o
Not since Elvis dived off La Quebrada Cliff in the movie Fun in Acapulco has my interest turned to anything Mexican – and who can blame me? I have long got the Tequila sniff off my radar with a final decision that it is too potent! So now, still looking…
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Plate Up: Superbly Le Souffle
I haven’t food blogged for awhile. Doesn’t mean I have stayed home, quite the contrary. My friend, the late Tony White, had a favourite restaurant in the north of Johannesburg, Le Souffle. Situated in the Pineslopes Shopping Centre, originally it was a small french restaurant, very quaint, with a small,…
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