REview: Mukwa River Lodge, Livingstone, Zambia

Review: Terrarium

The understated restaurant at the Queen Victoria Hotel offers organic food, from farm and forest to plate, for sustainable dining.

From North Africa, to the Middle East, to the Indian sub-continent, to Cape Malay, Upper Union’s winter menu warms you from the taste buds to the tummy, writes Lorraine Kearney.

Nikkei is intriguing, a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian cuisine – with robatayaki, sushi, sake, pisco, lucuma and more – now being served in Bree Street.

Japanese immigrants started arriving in Peru in 1899, and they kept coming till 1936. Mostly men between 20 and 45, they were contracted to work on cane plantations. They migrated because Peru needed labourers and Japan needed to alleviate poverty at home. It was a hard life, yet the Japanese Peruvian community thrived. Witness Japanese Peruvian food – the Japanese brought... Read more →

Franschhoek has a small, serene southeast Asian corner in Ōku restaurant - serenity on the Franschhoek strip.

Clay Café Paarl is settled into a 300-year-old homestead on the Groot Parys Estate. Opened in March, it is the latest in the Clay Café family, which started in the early 2000s. There are three outlets run by the original company – in Hout Bay, on Bree Street in central Cape Town, and now in Paarl. There are also several... Read more →

Everybody loves an ever-reliable neighbourhood bistro, and Paarl’s Noop delivers. ‘We cook the same food here as we do at home,’ boast the owners: unpretentious, often spontaneous, always delicious. It’s that commitment to always bringing its A-game that keeps diners coming back for more and turns new visitors into regulars over a single meal. Also read: Your ultimate guide to... Read more →

A long table, delighted diners, very tasty food accompanied by well-chosen wines and a good-natured chat with the chef and wine ambassador – this is what you get at the Leopard’s Leap South African Table. Driving into Franschhoek is always a treat, with the blue-grey mountains etched against the cerulean sky, cupping a valley of green. And the promise of... Read more →

Liam Tomlin is not a man to put his feet up. No sooner has the chef built a success of one restaurant, than he opens another, always a different concept serving entirely different food. A renaissance man of food, perhaps. Also read: Bree Street gets a new 3-storey eatery: The Bailey by Chef Liam Tomlin His latest venture is The... Read more →

Not many people would drive an hour or more for lunch. But for those who do, Farro is the reward at the end of the road. Farro at Gabriëlskloof is the new home of chef Alex Windebank and his wife and business partner, Eloise. She takes care of the front of house – and a more welcoming person is hard... Read more →

The Plant Powered Show is at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 27-29 May; there is also an online show.

The V&A Waterfront is one of the country’s prime tourist draws, replete as it is with hotels, shops, restaurants and bars, the Wheel, yachts, museums and so much more besides. The Zeitz MOCAA and Silo District brought a sophisticated polish in 2017. It apparently receives 24 million visitors a year, which is a lot of foot traffic, though that was... Read more →

It’s an unexpected start. Just before you cross the railway, on the Simondium-Klapmuts Road, a sign to your rights announces Vrede en Lust, the smaller Angala display almost missable. Perhaps that is intentional. After all, Angala is a hidden gem far from the roar of trucks, the hum of cars and the pry of eyes. Up the narrow road, past... Read more →

Winding up the mountain out of Franschhoek towards the pass, the views move from pretty to spectacular, the higher you get. Just before the little town falls completely from sight, La Petite Ferme beckons. And the views here really are outstanding. The boutique hotel looks over the Franschhoek valley, the flanks of its mountains under vine, the little town in... Read more →

Order from chaos; this is the overriding feeling when settling into FYN. The calm from the storm of traffic and people outside, the extraordinary Escher-esque interior ­– with its smart and considered wooden bead roof installation by Christoph Karl of Guideline Design – and the slick operation of the open kitchen. Watching from above, it’s like a ballet, with each... Read more →