Category: Plate Up !
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Restaurant Roaming
It is no secret that I like to eat out, often. A road trip long or short is not a road trip without a meal somewhere along the way, just to stop and smell the burger so to speak. 2016 offered many outings to beautiful places, some new and some…
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In Da Bushes Lookin’ For Da Food
It’s been awhile since we intrepid foodies went sniffing around y’all hear? So we have been on a bit of a binge lately. We can blame our lovely sunny climate for this….nothing better than to drive off into the countryside like food-seeking-missiles in da bush! First out of the blocks was…
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Pass on the Pop-Up Grill
I don’t complain much about restaurants and bistro’s, it takes a lot to make me a really unhappy patron, but the Pop-Up Grill at Clearwater Mall, on the West Rand of Johannesburg was quite an astonishing experience. Having seen that a new restaurant was due to open over the last…
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Cuisine Cruising in the Cape
It’s not often we spend a full week in the fairest Cape, but we did in May, with four days in the Cape Town area and then a drive up the West Coast to Paternoster for the weekend. Eating out is what it’s all about when away: new restaurants, new…
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Jozi Interrupted
As summer crawled into autumn and crawled into winter I haven’t been out and about much in Johannesburg. So, deciding to brush the cobwebs off, I decided it was time for us to go plane ‘shooting’, we picked up our cameras, jumped into the car and headed off to O.R.Tambo…
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Fiddling Food and What Makes Me Happy as a Consumer of Hospitality
I am no Masterchef contender, nor a gourmet food critique, nor a designer of soft pliable spring-less mattresses, nor for that matter an installer of brake pads for Ford motor vehicles. So what makes my comments relevant? Why I am relevant is that I have seriously been dining and guesting…
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The Good The Bad … The “Fugly” of Food in 2014
I love eating out. I like to be served. I am extremely fortunate to travel relatively regularly and experience new restaurants, guest houses and hotels as well as supporting those establishments I know I will enjoy. 2014 was an interesting year, because I also moved into a new suburb and…
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