This post, featuring Yield Coffee Bar, is the first in an occasional series about my favorite new coffeeshops in Joburg.
It’s been a couple of years since I wrote my top five Jozi coffeeshops post. All the places mentioned in that post are still great. But I’ve discovered several good new coffeeshops lately so I thought I’d do a series of short posts about them. First up: Yield Coffee Bar.
Yield is in Linden, which has always been one of my favorite Jozi suburbs for eating out. I didn’t discover Yield right away because it’s a block away from Linden’s big cluster of restaurants along 7th Street and 4th Avenue – at the corner of 6th Street and 3rd Avenue.
Yield is a tiny, simple little place. It serves delicious coffee – the beans come from Urban Grind Roasters, which I wrote about in my top five coffeeshops post – and sandwiches. I met a friend there for lunch and we had iced coffees and salami and cheese paninis. Good iced coffee is hard to find in this town (although it’s starting to get easier, thank god) and Yield serves a good one.
Yield is owned by a woman and all the baristas are women, at least they were on the day I went. (I wish I’d taken a photo but didn’t think about it right then.) Another plus is my book – the Joburg coffee scene needs more ladies.
This is a ridiculously short post. But I don’t have much time and honestly, there’s not much more I need to say.
Oh, one more thing: My friend Ted created a handy Google map with all of Joburg’s best coffeeshops marked on it. I support this idea. Go caffeinate.
Read the rest of my Favorite Jozi Coffeeshops series.
How have I never blogged about 44 Stanley Avenue, the coolest shopping and dining complex in Joburg, which is only five minutes from my house?
I guess it’s wrong to say I’ve never blogged about 44 Stanley; I’ve mentioned it countless times over the years (see here and here) when writing about specific restaurants or shops that are there. But I’ve never written a dedicated post about 44 Stanley as a destination and it’s about time I did – especially now, with the holidays upon us.
I’ve been dreadfully uninspired lately, struggling to think of anything I want to blog about despite having a long list of great ideas (many of which you, my readers, provided in September). I’m finding it hard to feel positive about life at the moment. But on Saturday Thorsten and I got the chance to visit Indwe Park, an indigenous garden and sculpture park in Braamfontein, and I knew I had my topic for today.
Given this week’s political nuclear bomb blast, it feels like a weird time to publish a light-hearted post about my recent (pre-election) jaunt through the United States. But I’m hoping you’ve have had enough of the U.S. election horror show – I know I have – and are ready (at least temporarily) for some wholesome American travel adventures. If so, please read on about my four-day visit to Maine, the northeastern-most state in the lower 48, with my sister, Susanna.
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