Five Great Jozi Cheese Shops

23 April 2019

I love cheese. I just ate a toasted cheese sandwich like 30 seconds ago. And while Joburg is no Paris, there are a few really good spots to buy cheese in this town and I thought I should profile them as part of my Jozi Top Fives series.

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This Is the East: Cremalat

25 January 2019

Third in an occasional blog series called This Is the East, featuring hidden spots on Johannesburg’s East Rand.

Cremalat, like many great food places in the East Rand (a.k.a Ekurhuleni), is hidden behind the gates of a bland industrial complex, in a location that’s hard to describe. The place itself is hard to describe as well.

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Jozi Cheesiness

03 June 2011

Let’s talk cheese.

I once visited Paris, the world’s cheese Mecca. There were cheese shops on every corner. I gazed longingly through the cheese shop windows but I never entered; I was too intimidated. How do you choose a cheese when there are 500 cheeses to choose from? Especially when you must read the labels in French?

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