http://www.whalecottage.com/blog Whale Cottage Portfolio Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:55:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rhubarb Room is the cutest decor/coffee shop hidden away on Upper Buitengracht Street in Bo-Kaap.  It attracted attention again, after previous visits, when its logo was spotted on the @2oceansvibe blog, listed as one of the sponsorship logos "Seth Rotherham", the blog owner who uses this pseudonym (his real name is Will ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/restaurant-reviewthere-is-no-rhubarb-at-the-rhubarb-room/ The world's leading cyclist, Lance Armstrong, is riding his first Argus Cycle Tour today, adding prestige to the event, which is the largest cycling race in the world.    Armstrong is a wonderful marketer for Cape Town, communicating his experiences in Cape Town, via the social marketing medium Twitter, to his 2,5 million ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/lance-armstrong-adds-action-to-argus-cycle-tour/ Cafe Peroni is bringing Italian flair to Camps Bay in Cape Town for the next three weekends, when the cool Italian beer brand Peroni sets up its home base at Bungalow on the Camps Bay beachfront. For the next three weekends a different Italian theme will focus on fashion elements of ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/peroni-brings-italian-flair-to-camps-bay/ The Sweet Service Award goes to Road Mac Surfacing, the road construction company, and is nominated by Stellenbosch wine-maker Sue McNaughton.  Driving on the N1 to Paarl, where the company was doing road works, a stone hit Sue's car windscreen, and caused a bad crack, which ran in no time.   She ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/road-mac-surfacing-sweet-and-slow-food-market-sour-service-awards/ A recent blog post by chef, Eat Out Top 10 restaurant judge and owner of Wild Woods restaurant, Pete Goffe-Wood, is the inspiration for evaluating how ready Cape Town's restaurants are for the World Cup, a mere three months away today, and for becoming world class. Goffe-Wood wrote that the local restaurant industry is "teetering ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/cape-town-restaurants-can-we-become-world-class/ Renowned Irish-born and previously Australian-based chef Liam Tomlin has moved to Cape Town, and is to open a Chefs' Warehouse and Cookery School in April on New Church Street, Gardens. Tomlin has been in the country for a few months now, busy overseeing the renovation of the building that will become ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/new-chefs-warehouse-and-cookery-school-will-create-a-stir-in-cape-town/ The extreme heat in Cape Town and the Western Cape in the past week will have made one aware that climate change can affect our region too.  Record-high temperatures, touching 40C in Cape Town and 48C in Franschhoek, have affected every citizen. The City of Cape Town's head of environmental policy, Gregg Oelofse, has ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/cape-of-storms-could-get-stormier/ An extremely hot summer's day, as well as a mouth feel urgently requiring crayfish, beckoned the writer to Salt restaurant in the Ambassador Hotel in Bantry Bay, which has been running a crayfish special at R 185 with its sister restaurant OYO in the V&A Hotel for a while now.   ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/restaurant-review-salt-coolest-lunch-on-a-hot-summers-day/ Despite a commitment made more than six months ago that Cape Town Tourism and Cape Town Routes Unlimited would work together to market Cape Town and the Western Cape, and would work to avoid duplication in their marketing activities, little synergy between the two bodies is evident. Now Western Cape Finance, ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/cape-town/marketing-in-the-cape-stagnates/ Venues that have a TV set and charge clients to view the World Cup matches in their venue, will be expected to apply for a R 50 000 liquor licence, reports Business Report. The initial announcement by the Department of Trade and Industry about the liquor licence requirements for the World Cup was ... http://www.whalecottage.com/blog/world-cup-2010/world-cup-liquor-licence-fee-a-damp-squib/