• Restaurant Review: Sampling Cape Town’s Sensational Sentir

    9 February 2018 - By 

    Please note: Regrettably, Sentir is now closed.   My first review for 2018 started off in a fine manner: with a sensational supper at Sentir Tapas and Spirits Space, one of newer arrivals to the Cape Town foodie scene. Situated within a 102-year-old building in Long Street (the street that never sleeps), Sentir Tapas and Spirits Space lies above the famous micro-bakery, Loaves on Long. Indeed, Sentir has something of a secret entrance – and it’s quite enchanting – as one passes through the cosy bakery, almost unsuspecting of what lies just up the stairs… And yet above it all,…

  • Festival Review: Valentine’s Day at the Burger Festival, Cape Town

    18 February 2016 - By 

    Perhaps one of the things I love most about the Western Cape – and the Mother City – is its enthusiasm for outdoors festivals and markets, and 2016 has seen yet another such festival added to the city’s growing event ranks in none other than: The Burger Festival. Tickets to Cape Town’s first-ever exclusive Burger Festival sold out quickly, especially the Early Bird tickets (R55), which were snapped up in a heartbeat, having already been announced as ‘sold out’ in mid-Jan. Normal Bird tickets (R75) had also sold out by the time my interest really started to pique and Late…