Danie Malherbe has no airs about him, although he paints like a prince. “I’m the manager of the Spar here in Port Owen,” he says when he explains that he has to make time to paint. Paints during stolen moments His paintings of landscapes and ruins that have people waxingRead More

The humble bokkom can get people excited. Ask Linda Voges, owner of the Vishuis in Bokkom Laan in Velddrif. There are times when bokkom is plentiful and times when it’s not. Today is one of the latter. Today’s bokkom catch only amounted to 58 kg. Which is considered paltry, asRead More

Sometimes I think that the West Coast is not only a place but also a state of mind… Our weekend road trip had to end with a meal. But where would we have it? In some chic little restaurant asking the equivalent of a small country’s annual budget for aRead More

An award-winning British restaurateur and gin manufacturer has fallen in love with the West Coast. Although Russell Foster owns 17 restaurants in Britain and a craft brewery and gin distillery he spends most of his time in Velddrif. Because this is where his heart is now. It’s here that heRead More

By Tunafeesh Looks like Wednesday is going to be your best option of getting some surfing in with a push in the swell in the late afternoon. The swell tends to drop off for the weekend but the good news is that the temperature increases to 30 degrees on Sunday.Read More

Linza de Jager writes these stoep stories. The thing about living in a small place is that everyone knows everyone. And that can be a problem. I mean, when things that should not be transparent become transparent, things can become sticky… And so it turned out when I met Lovey.*Read More

Something’s cooking at Trattoria Maranello in Melkbosstrand. Local artist Claudia is busy transforming the backyard of “the house of Ferrari-Food.” When she is finished the “backyard-without-a-view will be very much a backyard-with-a-view, and a distinctly Cape Town one at that. Claudia interrupted her work on the 3-D murals to smileRead More

“Yes, you can take a photo,” the owner of the sea-green dreamboat parked at Slabber se Klippe said Sunday afternoon. And then he looked straight ahead of him again, as did his wife. The photo was after all not going to be of them but of their vintage car. AndRead More

Melkbosstrand has a singing tree. No jokes! The tree in question stands opposite the Seafood Lapa. But for those of you who are going to head over there right now in order to hear it sing, let me just go on record and say that it probably won’t utter aRead More

At least one West Coast mom is certain of getting a superb Mother’s Day meal tomorrow. Denzel Koenana, who is Kuier magazine’s assistant food editor and winner of the 2016 Huiskok competition, will be preparing a special Mother’s Day lunch for mom Jannetjie Schassers. That’s one thing Koenana, who livesRead More