I am hectically busy at work. In actual fact as this pre-scheduled post appears I am in Jozi for the annual Gauteng Getaway Show. I kinda wish I could just sit back and relax with a coffee like the designer ginger biscuit flavoured one in the pic I had at Como Cafe in Walmer the other day.
On Saturday morning I bundled the family into the car and headed down to Retro-Pickers in Walmer. Around every second corner there is a coffee shop these days, but Retro-Pickers is something refreshingly different. Imagine an antique shop selling mostly retro items and clothing combined with a small personal coffee shop and you will have Retro-Pickers. The coffee shop isn't very big with only three tables inside and another four outside making it a nice quiet spot to go for a chat and browse. I…
Everybody loves fish and chips and every city or town has a good fish and chips shop on a corner somewhere. But good isn't always best and for the best fish and chips around one has to head past the harbour at Hout Bay and down to Fish on the Rocks. Africa's favorite (as they put it) fish and chips shop was started by the Brodericks 23 years ago and has become a very popular stop for both locals as well…
Richmond Hill has truly become one of the "in" places around Port Elizabeth and looking at the restaurants, cafes and pubs in the area it isn't hard to understand why. A week or so ago a friend asked me if I've ever been to Cafe Ruwach and on answering no we headed over there straight away for a look. Cafe Ruwach isn't just an ordinary... Well, it isn't ordinary. As you enter they have a sign stating the following: "We are not a…
Andza's Tavern in Motherwell is one of the more popular taverns in the city and are frequented by both locals as well as tourists. During a recent media visit that I got to accompany we went to Andza's for a... wait for it, snoek braai. Township folk (just like us white Afrikaners) love their meat and usually they have lamb, steak or chicken braaiing over the coals when you get there, so going to a tavern and being served fish…
It is claimed that oysters act as an aphrodisiac and perhaps it does, but I'm not a big oyster fan so I can't claim that it has affected me in any... romantic way. I have observed some other mannerisms with people eating oysters though. I recently accompanied a group visiting Port Elizabeth for a couple of days and we went to Barnacles Restaurant in Seaview for a lunch. Two of the ladies ordered oysters as a starter and both ate…
So how often did you mother rap you over the fingers for drawing on her walls when you were small. Now imagine somewhere they encourage you to do so. The walls in the Barnacles Restaurant in Seaview is covered in messages and names of visitors who have marked their visit on the walls of the restaurant with a bit of encouraged graffiti.
I had lunch at Cafe Capellini in the Walmer Park Shopping Centre the other day and noticed this set of "reminders" regarding customers under the stairs. In this day and age where customer service is so important yet often lacking, this was a stark reminder how customers should actually be treated. And just to add, the service was excellent.
Over the last couple of years the area around Stanley Street in Richmond Hill has developed into a hub of restaurants, side walk eateries and deli's and has become one of the best places to go for a meal in Port Elizabeth. One of the restaurants I have heard a lot about but hadn't had a chance to visit is the Bain Street Grill (32 Bain Street, Richmond Hill) just around the corner from Stanley Street. But this was about to change…
Over the last couple of years Richmond Hill has developed into one of the premier restaurant districts in Port Elizabeth with a number of very good restaurants, coffee shops and deli's opening up all over the area. In the evenings, specially over weekends, places like Stanley Street is a hive of activity with patrons dining both inside and out (depending on the weather).