Archive for 'Coffee'
Search for The Great South African Cup of Coffee: C’est La Vie
While visiting Lisa’s Little Wine Shop in Kalk Bay, a true hidden gem, I was pointed swiftly to C’est La Vie, the coffee shop / French bakery round the back.
I followed the aroma of freshly roasted bean coming from the Mediterranean-style balcony outside Lisa’s shop. As you enter, you get a sensory double-whammy. In one [...]
Search for The Great South African Cup of Coffee: Origin Roasting
I’ve held this one back a little. It’s been almost a year now that we’ve featured my coffee review on Ideate. It’s been an up and down affair, with Caveau Josephine Mill and CaffeNeo coming up tops so far.
I’m not going to make a meal of this next review, since I want to encourage you [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Casareccio Cucina Italia
Hout Bay is a like a hidden gem. Nestled away between mountains and sea, this little haven stores many secrets. I say secrets, because it seems that Hout Bay would like to keep it this way, but every time I come here, I find something else to marvel at.
Sure, it has its problems (3 actually; [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Adesso
Adesso in Italian means ‘now!’ I know this because my Italian brother-in-law says this all the time to his brood of 4 kids. It also describes how I feel when I get my usual caffeine withdrawal just after lunch.
I had some time between meetings on a rainy Cape Friday afternoon, and chose to pop into [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: E2
When I was a student, I remember discussing ‘the dream business’ in our cafetaria at Cape Technikon, drinking R1 coffee and smoking Stuyvesant Blue. The best one we came up with was the coffee shop / record store / clothing shop – an idea shared by millions of wannabe entrepreneurs around the world. You know [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Caveau Cape Town
I went to Caveau in town for a meeting the other day and was surprised.
Now, this column is intended to be an ‘objective coffee review’. I don’t pretend to be a barista or a bean expert, or some kind of seasoned post-Starbucks university graduate know-it-all. I know what I like, and I like to share [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Simply Coffee, Pringle Bay
It was my wife’s birthday the other day so I surprised her with an impromptu trip to visit her best mate in Pringle Bay on the South Coast of Africa. Pringle is a rugged and beautiful part of the world – the last place you’d expect to find great coffee.
It was fine weather, so a [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Arabella Sheraton
I got stood up the other day.
At the Arabella Sheraton no less. Not a place to be seen wandering around with a lost look on your face and checking your watch. The Arabella is for people who know where they are, and know where the hell they’re going. The trick, I observed as the Armani-clad [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Bravo
Bravo, an Italian bistro / coffee shop / restaurant in Mouille Point (Cape Town) was the venue for a get together with a new client. Upon arrival, I jumped straight to the most important item on the agenda, the cappuccino.
It arrived with a fanfare of beautiful presentation, ostentatious foam spiral towering up from the cup, [...]
Search for the Great South African Cup of Coffee: Parks Cafe
Shane and I popped in here for a meeting on Thursday. It’s a conveniently positioned cafe / restaurant / alternative clothing outlet deep in Cape suburbia. It’s 10 mins from everywhere (you’ll find it just over Wynberg Hill, left off the M3 towards Muizenberg) and its convivial atmosphere lends itself to an end-of-the-week wind-down.
The perfect [...]
