Food and Drink (Category) - 309 posts

Joburg's downtown neighborhood of New Doornfontein is becoming a mecca for art and design lovers. I had a look around Ellis House and loved what I saw.

The Box Shop, a box-shaped shopping center and coffee shop on Vilakazi Street, is a fun Soweto hangout for locals and tourists alike.

Sanza Sandile, Yeoville's most formidable chef, is cooking up a (mostly) vegetarian Pan-Afrikan storm at the Yeoville Dinner Club.

Chocoloza, a small shop in 44 Stanley, sells delectable Belgian-style chocolates and and chocolate drinks. You won't find better chocolate in Joburg.

I visited Field Berry Farm, a raspberry farm in Joburg South. The raspberries were great and so was Lungi, the farm's proprietress.

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, I bring you a hot pot restaurant I recently discovered in Rivonia, an Asian food hot bed in the northern suburbs.

I recently had an amazing lunch at a Syrian restaurant in Joburg. The meal was amazing, and it got me thinking about Syrian refugees. And now I'm enraged.

I took a food tour through Alexandra Township with Tour 2.0, and discovered lots of traditional South African food that I've never tasted before.

In week 4 of my #52Gauteng challenge, I visited Patisserie de Paris in Blairgowrie. This place is the closest thing to Paris in Johannesburg.

Welcome to Week 2 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I will visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week …

Sophisticated, hand-crafted cocktails have become a thing in Johannesburg. Here are three new bars serving cocktails that are more than just drinks.

A quickie restaurant review of Mamasan, a new Cape Malay restaurant on 7th Street in Melville. Melville restaurants come and go but I hope this is a keeper.