After the success of the my first Wine Connect, I was on the wait list for the La Motte wine pairing and I eagerly waited for someone to cancel. While on holiday in the Midlands, I received a notification that two spots had opened up and I was first in line. I was so excited,…
Review: AJs in the Park
Zomato South Africa holds a competition every Friday afternoon at 3pm called #FoodieFriday on Twitter. They have a theme as a hint and you need to answer 10 questions correctly and in the quickest time to win. I have been playing this game for 5 weeks straight when it finally paid off! I WON! What…
A Gem in the Mountains
For my birthday weekend, My fiancé took my family and I to the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands. If you are not familiar with the midlands, I’ll fill you in. There are a couple of wine farms, a lot of dairy farms and a lot of cheese. Knowing me, you know why this was the perfect place…
Review: Green and Gold
With my daughter away at my mom’s house, the fiancé and I were keen n a great night out. Now, we’re not that old but we’re over our clubbing days so the next best thing is finding an amazing pub to go to that’s close to the house so Uber costs are not too high….
5 basic wine mistakes
Over the last few years, my fiancé and I have been learning a lot about wine, going through to wine estates and learning the art of wine-making. This has only enticed my need to one day buy shares in a wine farm and spend my days walking up and down the vineyards, sipping wine and…
Wine Pairing Basics
I recently attended a Food and Wine pairing which happened to be one of the most educational experiences of my life. It was hosted in Zio G Craft in Sunninghill by chef Philippe Frydman who I reflected on in my first meetup. Everything was so well paired that I completely lost the fact that I…
Lesson Learned: The Art of Baking Fish
A while ago I published a piece on baking a piece of hake and making it taste amazing. Last night, my parents came over and I wanted to WOW them with that meal so I headed off to the grocery store to get the ingredients. The fish was frozen so I left it out for…
A Little bit of Germany never hurt
In case you don’t know, I am a mother. And as a mother, I celebrated my second mother’s day yesterday. My mother’s day started off with smoked salmon eggs benedict but that wasn’t what I wanted to talk about. We had long planned that this mother’s day would be spent with my mother-in-law because…
My first Meetup: Wine Connect
A friend of mine, suggested I download an app called ‘Meetup’. He only suggested this after I told him that I was interested in going to events, meeting new people, doing wine pairings and just socialising as a whole. So after I downloaded it, registered a profile and put in my interests, I found myself…
Autumn Restaurant Week 2016 Part 2
After my experience at A la Bouffé, I had completely lowered my expectations for this meal. To corroborate our experience this time, we invited my brother who could judge our experience and tell us if we were exaggerating or not. This time it was a 2 course meal at Prime Grill in Fourways. Like I…
Its Lady Vera 