#Shopping - 116 posts

Yummy Mayfair, a shop selling local and imported prepared foods, has the best selection of American junk food I've seen in Joburg.

I visited Joburg City for the first time since the pandemic started. It was great to see so many exciting new things happening.

Today, after a week or so of procrastination, I returned to the Aranda blanket factory in Randfontein. After my previous Basotho blanket post, a reader in …

Rialheim and Boho Café & Co in Rand Steam, is the most delightful ceramics/coffee shop I've ever experienced in a suburban shopping center.

The Upcycle shop, on Long Road in Greymont, rescues rejected corporate merchandise that would otherwise go to a landfill and sells it -- cheaply.

Here are my top five recommendations on where to buy local South African and African gifts, especially African art, in Johannesburg.

Sobae Frozen is the brainchild of two passionate people who love dessert and hate wasting food. It's more than sorbet -- it's sustainability and love.

Rand Steam, a historic site in Richmond, was nearly destroyed by developers. The new shopping centre there incorporates elements of the site's history.

After years of gentle prodding by Jay Patel's daughter, I finally visited Langwan Cleaners, a general dealer on Albert Street in downtown Joburg.

I got my DNA analyzed at Health Works, a funky health shop at the Hyde Park Corner centre. DNA analysis is cool but I loved the experience itself even more.

Mallies Spice Works is a frentetic spice factory in a dilapidated building in a dilapidated section of Newtown. It's the place to buy spices in Joburg.

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 …