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Paarl estate Bacco grabs attention a year after opening

ITALIAN for Bacchus, the Roman God of Wine, Bacco is also the name of a new wine estate in the Simonsberg area of Paarl where proprietor Nathan Jankelowitz and his team are attracting attention in more ways than one. Opened to the public at the end of 2022, the Bacco tasting room and restaurant present a multi-sensory experience. There’s the

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Vondeling now just up the road from Fairview and Spice Route

IF YOUR WINERY is fairly off the beaten track, perhaps your tasting room isn’t attracting quite as many guests as you’d like and you want to bolster your public profile, to take things to the next level, why not relocate where you do your entertaining? The Vondeling farm is in that corner of Paarl called Voor-Paardeberg, just ‘over the hill’

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Stellenbosch bliss at The Jordan Restaurant with Marthinus

The opening of The Jordan Restaurant with Marthinus Ferreira in Stellenbosch Kloof at the end of 2022 crowned a great year for the family outfit offering some of South Africa’s finest wines, fabulous food and accommodation in the great outdoors.

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Eat Out Awards: La Colombe best restaurant in Cape winelands

WHO SAW that coming! With Chef Johannes Richter in charge of the kitchen, The Livingroom at Summerhill Guest Estate outside Durban has been named Restaurant of the Year at South Africa’s 2022 Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards. Best in the Cape winelands? La Colombe at Silvermist in Constantia Nek, where Chef James Gaag orchestrates the food offering. Eat Out Chef

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Eat Out critics recommend Top 12 restaurants among the vines

ALMOST just as interesting as who is included on the A-list of South Africa’s leading restaurant guide, is who is left off. Of the 42 establishments Eat Out have applauded with star ratings in 2022, there are 12 in the Cape winelands, i.e. among the vines, near the cellars (see below), with quite a few more on the high streets

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Where to lunch on a wine farm today, tomorrow, next week…

  R300 FOR a good sirloin or pepper-crusted fillet with fries, salad and a decent glass of red. Or R300 for salmon, potatoes, greens and a decent glass of white. On the deck or patio, under the oaks, outside a top restaurant of a top cellar on a sunny afternoon in the beautiful winelands of the Cape. Have you been

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Stellenbosch winelands checklist 2022: where to go, what to go for

  THE NUMBERS go some way to painting the picture! Fifteen of South Africa’s Top 20 Cabs are from Stellenbosch. Cabernet Sauvignon, that is. Ten of the country’s Top 20 wines from Pinotage are WO Stellenbosch. Eleven of the Top 20 Red Blends. Also, 11 of the Top 20 Chenins are from here, and nine of the Top 20 Chardonnays.

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Dreaming of Top Wine SA… wining, lunching, staying among the vines

WHEN YOU want to but can’t venture out onto one of South Africa’s wonderful wine routes straight away, the next best thing might be to reminisce about sorties past or to plan your next trip into the countryside. The slideshows on Top Wine SA showcase the best wine producers in South Africa, the best places to eat at in the

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Constantia Wine Route Update: two new restaurants, all the best bottles

  WHERE TO EAT on the Constantia Wine Route, on a farm, among the vines? And which wines to seek out, what has been highly recommended by the panels of experts? For lunch, you could consider the new venues: Steenberg’s Tryn (main dining area pictured above) has various general indoor, outdoor and private fine-dining spaces, a bar and a menu

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Franschhoek Update: new lunch venue with a view, latest wine picks

  WHERE TO EAT on the Franschhoek Wine Route, on a farm, among the vines? And which wines to seek out, what the panels of experts have highly recommended recently? For lunch, your best bets include The Werf and Rhone Homestead at Boschendal, Franschhoek Cellar (also Bellingham cellar door), Pierneef à La Motte, Racine at Chamonix, AND the new venues

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Paarl Update: another new restaurant and the experts’ latest wine tips

  WHERE TO EAT on the Paarl Wine Route, on a farm, among the vines? And which wines to seek out, what the panels of experts have recommended recently? For lunch, your choices include Faber at Avondale, several options at Babylonstoren, the Goatshed at Fairview, Glen Carlou, The Kraal at Joostenberg, The Red Table at Nederburg, Rhebokskloof, the Deck at Ridgeback, Rupert &

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We’re being ripped off! SA restaurant-goers paying 400% more for wine

CONSUMERS are paying roughly four times the value of a bottle of wine when they order in a South African restaurant. So comments wine e-tailer Ryan Sowray of SaleWine, who has noticed a remarkable growth in people ordering wines to take to restaurants and says this is happening not only in South Africa, but globally. “Instead of going to a

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What’s not to like about Chefs Warehouse, Beau Constantia! Not much!

A GREAT restaurant by all accounts: awards aplenty, word of mouth and Cape chefs’ favourite – see here. Special food and amazing view from up on high. Although there aren’t many of South Africa’s top restaurants that require a deposit of R250 per person when making a reservation… So, the meal at Chefs Warehouse Beau Constantia will set you back

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Waterkloof voted top restaurant in Cape winelands – SA Eat Out Awards

  WATERKLOOF on the Sir Lowry’s Pass Road outside Somerset West has been ranked No. 1 in South Africa at the 2018 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards. The restaurants on three other Cape wine farms were also included in the country’s Top 10, with five more nominated for consideration. The winners were decided by a team of foodies led by top chef Margot

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Slideshow showcases top places to eat at on top wine farms of the Cape

NEW ON Top Wine SA! Now you can flip through photographs of the top tables in the winelands of South Africa and then, for more info, just click on the images that appeal. CHECK IT OUT: a slideshow of the best places to eat at among the vines, together with a directory already well used by many food and wine lovers who

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Overture and Chefs Warehouse get the nod from top chefs – Inside Guide

HOWZAT! In a survey conducted by The Inside Guide, 38 of the best chefs in South Africa were asked where they like to eat in Cape Town and surrounds when taking a break from their own restaurants. Voted ‘favourite winelands experience’ experience was Overture at Hidden Valley on the slopes of the Helderberg in Stellenbosch, with the nod for ‘best

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New Constantia bistro and deli promising – but it’s early days still

YAY! AND YET! It was great to hear that there are a couple of new venues to choose from come lunchtime in the winelands of Constantia. Not so great was to discover that at one of them they don’t sell any wine to accompany your meal, and at the other the management is somewhat cheeky… At the Nest Deli on Constantia

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SALT at Paul Cluver… All the more reason to wine and dine in Elgin

WHERE to go for an interesting plate of food, a decent glass of wine and a relaxing ambience come lunchtime in the Elgin basin outside Grabouw. Well, there’s The Pool Room at Oak Valley, and there was Fresh at Paul Cluver… And/but just opened is SALT, taking over from Fresh, with the promise of the best in the district when

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Top 10 places to wine and dine on Cape wine farms – among the vines

According to the critics who wined and dined unannounced and paid for their meals before the 2017 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards were presented, the following are the best restaurants in the winelands of South Africa, i.e. on the farms, among the vines, rather than on the high streets or back roads of the towns and villages that punctuate the Cape winelands. The emphasis

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I told myself I wouldn’t eat at Harbour House again, but then again …

FOR MANY who are fond of good wining and dining in Cape Town, when dreaming about seafood and a room with a view, your thoughts might well turn to Harbour House in the V&A Waterfront or Kalk Bay. Very appealing, but lunching there is not an automatic choice: a great plate of prawns and chips isn’t guaranteed at these bayside destinations and then there’s

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