 | Gourmet travellers and iPhone devotees will love the Apple iPhone’s latest application – 42 restaurants. It combines a restaurant guide to 42 of the best restaurants around the world with a gourmet cookbook, featuring a recipe from each of the chefs alongside gorgeous photos of both the food and the restaurants themselves.
JUST THE PLANET are thrilled that one of our favourite local restaurants, The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Francais in Franschoek, has been included, so that we can salivate over their Wild mushroom and Potato Lasagna wherever we are in the world. If you want to be able to take a gourmet trip round the world in real life or in fantasy this is the application for you!
Find this application on iTunes - 42 Restaurants |
    | Bernd Strauss, award-winning chef at Asara Wine Estate & Hotel invites readers to join his indulgent three-hour course to learn how to make your own pralines and truffles, and to do a comparative tasting of dessert wines matched with the finest chocolate from Switzerland and Belgium - the perfect way to spend a winter evening! The course covers the history and production of chocolate, tempering chocolate, making different fillings, coating and moulding chocolates, decorating, and finally the pairing of dessert wines with chocolates.
Dates: Sunday 21 June or Sunday July 5 from 6pm to 9pm
Cost: R350 per session.
The class includes a welcome drink, tea and coffee, tasting of Asara dessert wines and chocolates produced that evening. The course requires a minimum number of six students per class and a maximum of 10. Book your cooking class now ... dining@asara.co.za or call +27 (0)21 888 8000 (Please use JUST THE PLANET as your reference)
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| Opened on Valentine’s Day, Josephine’s is now a favourite with Cape Town locals. Anyone exploring the National Gallery in the Company Gardens or St George’s Cathedral and needing a coffee fix should head down Adderley Street and take a quick detour to the right just after Spin Street.
The smell of Belgian coffee, exquisite pastries, irresistible cakes and confections will draw you towards the new Church Square Piazza where you’ll find an enchanting slice of Paris at the tip of Africa. Relax in this stylish eatery while bakers and pastry chefs create their sweet and savoury specialities in the open-plan, working bakery or browse and choose a beautifully wrapped gift.
Started by entrepreneur David Rwayitare and local art director Ian Martin, the pair have spared no expense in making sure that their croissants, breads and pastries meet high French standards. We love their site too: take a peek and find out about Josephine, an Amelie-like character who has a penchant for ‘stealing hearts, recipes and hotel teaspoons’. Catch a glimpse of her on www.josephineboulangerie.com.
Josephine Patisserie et Boulangerie, The Piazza, Parliament Street, Cape Town. 021 469 9730
Photography by Antonia Steyn/One League
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