#Johannesburg - 871 posts

Mooteebar is an avant-garde cocktail bar on 4th Avenue in Melville. If you're looking for a bit of adventure at happy hour, this is the place to go.

My new series, This Is the East, covers hidden spots on Johannesburg's East Rand. First up is the Croydon Bakery, which opened in 1980.

I went hot air ballooning at Bill Harrop's Original Balloon Safaris and watched part of the SA National Hot Air Balloon Championships.

Food trucks are trendy in Joburg, and in fact all over the world. But serving people lunch out of a truck is actually nothing new.

My June restaurant of the month is Sumting Fresh, a South-African-Asian-American-fried-chicken-street-food restaurant in Norwood.

Nothing beats watching the sunset from a Joburg rooftop. Looking down at the crazy evening traffic from the roof of 120 End Street.On Sunday evening, Mark Straw …

I participated in the 2018 #JoziWalks weekend and attended a walking tour through Orange Farm. During the walk, I watched three incredible South African dance …

The Wonders of Rock art is a exhibition of French and South African rock art, on display at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown until 1 October 2018.

Tonino's is a classic South African dive bar in Orange Grove. The beer is cheap, the pizza is decent, and the staff and clientele are friendly. One of my top …

27 Boxes is a retail center made from recycled shipping containers on 4th Avenue in Melville. There have been some great developments there lately - here are 12 …

I went on a cycling tour through Diepsloot, a sprawling informal settlement of hundreds of thousands of people in far northern Joburg suburbs.

I've discovered a few secret Jozi coffeeshops, but Tarantino's Coffee Co in Marshalltown is the secret-est of the secret.