Archive for 'Coffee'
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Detour
Regular travelers past Oudekraal en route to Camps Bay will have noticed a little queue of cars materialising on the flea market siding about 1km before Bakoven. The reason? This dude (right). He’s a Hout Bay local whose entrepreneurial spirit led him to parking his coffee trailer to service the thirst of thousands of commuters [...]
Search for the great South African Cup of Coffee: The Power and The Glory
I got locked out of my studio this morning. My agency, World Wide Creative, moved last week to new premises at the top of Cape Town. Telkom, internet not working, new keys getting cut – it’s all part of moving.
While I’m waiting for Mike, my business partner, to arrive with the studio keys I decide [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: The Corner Cafe in Durban
Recently, while in KZN to attend the wedding of one my World Wide Creative team mates, I hooked up with fellow coffee addict, Geoff Brink, who lives in Umdloti down the road from prolific blogger Fred Hatman. Geoff is otherwise known as the ‘nutter on the unicycle‘ – although he also moonlights as a photographer and a [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Fournos
Earlier today I was stuck at O.R. Thambo.
My flight was delayed, and I was kindly reassured that it wouldn’t be long. “The stoppage is merely due to the airport’s radar system being faulty.” Which is good to know, since I already have a MASSIVE fear of flying, so this little tidbit settled me down to [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Dario’s
The search goes on, and I’m pleased to say that I’ve uncovered a real hidden gem in Hout Bay, my back yard. It so happens that this place is a stone’s throw from where I live, so forgive me for my being a little hysterical about this.
I stepped out of the house to chat with [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Arpeggio
I’ve been quiet lately, for various reasons – mostly because I’ve been well, well busy – BUT that doesn’t mean that I’ve given up coffee. Far from it, in fact. So, here goes with a bit of an update.
I’m sitting in Stellenbosch right now, in a lovely little Italian restaurant called Arpeggio – having just [...]
Cool coffee start-up website idea
Thanks to Tripeak for sending me this link: Coffee in Town. It’s a nice use of Google Maps for coffee meet ups in Prague.
Jozi, Durban and Cape Town are crying out for this. I’d use it for sure…
Fred Roed is the marketing guy in the Ideate crew. Fred is the CEO of web marketing company [...]
Coffee art
Thanks to SteHan from The Medium for sending these. All pretty remarkable, really.
Fred Roed is the marketing guy in the Ideate crew. Fred is the CEO of web marketing company World Wide Creative and the co-founder of online learning portal Heavy Chef. Fred loves writing about people out there doing marketing right. Follow Fred on [...]
Cape Town is the Silicon Valley of Africa
Check out this post, ‘Cape Town breeds Entrepreneurs‘, that appeared in Fin24 on the weekend.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s research findings over the past five years show that the percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 64 in Cape Town who pursue new business are 190% above the national average.
I think this is something [...]
Search for The Great South African Cup of Coffee: Sage Organic
Cape Town is a maze of one-way streets and back alleys. If you know your way around, you may just find great little spots like this, Sage Organic, on Hatfield Street in Gardens.
I went there with Paul, the CSS whiz-kid from World Wide Creative, last week. We were not expecting to have great coffee, only [...]
