Anything to do with eating and drinking!
Wine tasting on a wine tour of Cape Winelands was high on our list of things to do in Cape Town, South Africa. Three Western Cape wine-making destinations, Paarl, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch are easily visited on a day trip from Cape Town. But while a day-long wine tour gave us a taste of the Cape … Read more
Getting cooking lessons in Cape Town’s Cape Malay cuisine in a Cape Malay Cooking Class in Bo-Kaap was high on our to-do list when we settled into the South African city for two weeks. Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap neighbourhood is beloved for its picture-postcard streetscapes with their candy coloured terrace houses, cobblestones and quaint mosques. However, … Read more
Ask a wine expert in Buenos Aires who the best person is to talk to about Argentine wine and they’ll probably recommend an Englishman! We generally seek out locals when we want to learn something that is inherently ‘local’ in a place, but in Buenos Aires one name kept popping up, that of wine consultant, … Read more
Buenos Aires best parrillas or steakhouses are found in sprawling Palermo and its neighbourhoods of Palermo Viejo and Palermo Soho. From local favourites La Dorita and Miranda to tourist hotspots La Cabrera and Don Julio, you’ll find the best Argentine steakhouses in these charming barrios. We love eating out in Buenos Aires. For us, it’s … Read more
We met an expat friend for dinner in Palermo Soho the day we’d been gathering prices for our Buenos Aires Price Check post and expressed surprise to him that prices hadn’t gone up much since we were last here a few years ago. He said he thought they had increased and that he didn’t even … Read more