#Food

I visited the Swartland – a wine region about an hour northwest of Cape Town – almost two months ago. My visit was mostly about wine, which I wrote about already, but I have all these other cool pictures and memories from the trip that I wasn’t able to share in that post.

Ba-Pita opened at the end of last year in Melville, at the top of 7th Street where the old Golf Tea Room used to be.

A few weeks after it opened, a great article on Ba-Pita’s interesting origin story appeared on New Frame. I shared the article on my Facebook page and it got so much traffic that it somehow felt redundant to write a post of my own.

I’m not a vegetarian and definitely not a vegan. While I totally recognize the benefits of a plant-based diet, both for myself and the planet, I love the occasional burger just a little too much to make that leap. (Don’t even get me started on cheese.)

This post, featuring AFRIKOA Café, is the eighth in an occasional series about my favorite coffee shops in Joburg.

I recently wrote a story about AFRIKOA Café – an African chocolate café, champagne bar, and coffee shop – for Lonely Planet Travel News. I want to mention it briefly here too because it’s something really new and different.

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.