Gino Mazza and daughter Giulietta with the award they received last year for the country’s best pizza restaurant. South Africa’s best pizza restaurant - as voted by the publicReigning champion Gino’s is back to defend its title! Gino’s in Robertsham is something of a Johannesburg restaurant institution – an old favourite that has stood the... Continue Reading →
Top names lined up for The Plant Powered Show
Top South African and international chefs and food personalities will be taking to the stage when The Plant Powered Show comes to Cape Town in May.They include the Giggling Gourmet Jenny Morris, Jason McNamara, Jane Nshuti, Mira Weiner, Mokgadi Itsweng, Arabella Parkinson, Claire Sharryn Roberto and Phil Mansergh, with more names to be announced in the... Continue Reading →
Three Courses, Three Casualties, Three Finalists
Retha & Tshepi, Karen & Tenille and Izak & Wessel survived three ‘sudden death’ cook-off courses last night (5 December) to take their place in next week’s My Kitchen Rules SA final – and make their bid for the R1 million prize. The ‘sudden death’ cook saw a duo eliminated after each of the three courses, as the contestants cooked... Continue Reading →
Zola Nene And Fritz Schoon To Judge The Taste Master: The Baking Edition
The highly-anticipated second season of The Taste Master SA returns to the small screen on Friday, 10 September at 19:00 on SABC 2 – and this time, it’s all about baking. In association with Royal Baking Powder and Samsung appliances, the new season promises to showcase more good food and high drama as the contestants are set to... Continue Reading →
Shout out to all Whoa!men this August at City Lodge Hotels
August is all about celebrating the special women in our lives – the women who make us go "Whoa!" Business-women making it work during a pandemic, stay-at-home moms who deserve a medal, the caregivers and the go-getters. Women’s Month with the accompanying public holiday of Women’s Day on 9 August was first launched in South... Continue Reading →
Come and Nosh at Nussbaums!
So as a Joburg foodie blogger who gets absolutely no opportunity to attend or blog about Kosher food – a little-known niche in Joburg’s wider foodie/blogging community, but something that I live and breathe every single day – I was pretty excited to see that local butchery, Nussbaums had invited two friends of mine, well-known... Continue Reading →
RED CHAMBER, Hyde Park – Still Awesome After All These Years
The Red Chamber has almost legendary status as one of the finest Chinese restaurants in Johannesburg. From its early days, when it first opened in Rosebank in 1989, until it moved to Hyde Park Shopping Centre in 1997, and then moved to its current premises (remaining within the centre), Head Chef, Emma Chan has maintained... Continue Reading →
PRIMAFILA – A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT TO RUN A RESTAURANT!
***AVOID*** AVOID *** AVOID *** AVOID *** AVOID *** Sometimes there needs to be a zero rating, especially reserved for those experiences where even a rating of 1 seems too high!! I don't think I've every written such a negative review, but our experience at this establishment was so awful, that I feel the need... Continue Reading →
FOODIE HEAVEN AT PAUL’S BAKERY @MELROSE ARCH –
We waited a bit for all the hype to die down before visiting this much anticipated French Patisserie. The restaurant is much bigger than I initially thought, and although we thought it was full when we arrived, we were taken through to the dining area in the interior of the space, which you don't see... Continue Reading →
A Gloriously Fresh Approach at Sum Ting Fresh Norwood
A tiny little gem of a place tucked away in plain sight in the hectic main street of Grant Avenue, Norwood. Their menu is limited - they do fried chicken in a variety of ways, and boy, do they do it well! The aioli is something out of this world (yes, I asked for more)... Continue Reading →
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