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Food
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Nederburg’s Summer Pop Up “Red Table” Restaurant Is Tres Cool
07 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Nederburg has created a novel restaurant for the summer, open from Wednesday to Sunday until the end of April. Called the Red Table, it offers locally-sourced fresh, light bistro-style food in a relaxed and gesellige atmosphere. The menu has been devised to match the farm’s rich and varied range of award-winning wines. What makes it […]
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Wall Street Journal Includes 2oceansvibe Stunt In ‘PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2012’ Feature
07 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The Wall Street Journal editors picked “the best photos of the year – representing the key moments and defining images of the news in 2012.” They included our Clifton Trawler Butlers Pizza Stunt we did in May. Click through for the pic + video.
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“I’ll Have Heart Disease With That” – How Fast Food Is Killing You
27 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
If you’re eating on the go, you’re planning for a short life. Professor Patrick Bouic was in the 2oceansvibe Radio studio last week on the Just Josie Show, to discuss the very real health threats that fast food poses to us, and our kids. Click through for top tips on how to side step heart disease.
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Eat Out Magazine Reveals SA’s Top 10 Restaurants For 2012
26 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards took place in the grand ballroom at the Westin in Cape Town last night. Apart from the prestigious Restaurant of the Year award, several other accolades were also dished out, including Chef of the Year, Best Steakhouse, and the Service Excellence Award.
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Cadbury Invents Nearly Unmeltable Chocolate
26 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Likely to be launched in time with the British summer (British warmer rainy season), Cadbury’s has announced an awesome invention: chocolate that will be able to withstand 40C temperatures for three hours before melting.
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Global Bacon Shortage “Unavoidable” In 2013
25 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s time to start getting a little worried, gang. Soon that Saturday morning English breakfast is going to be missing its most vital ingredient, and your bacon and egg roll will become nothing more than just an egg roll. It’s coming – the porkpocalypse.
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Cadbury Bubbly Challenge 2012 Highlights [VIDEO]
19 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some of South Africa’s top bloggers recently took part in the inaugural Cadbury Dairy Milk Bubbly Challenge. Click through for a highlights package of what went down.
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De Grendel Restaurant Up For KLINK Award! Show Your Support!
12 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The joy of being a 2oceansviber is you have embraced the 2oceansvibe brands and you understand your life is better because of it. Because we refuse to compromise – and neither should you! That is why we support our partners at all costs. And so we ask you, the 2oceansvibers, to get behind our wine […]
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Win With Cadbury Bubbly Challenge – The Bearded Wiseman Needs You
06 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Tomorrow the Bearded Wiseman will be competing in an event like no other – the Cadbury Bubbly Challenge. And he’s going to need your help, gang! Click through to find out what he’ll be up to, and how you too can win.
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Awesome Initiative: Restaurant Offers 5% Off Bill If Patrons Hand Over Cellphone
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Restaurants are quite possibly one of the oldest forms of social setting. You get to indulge many pleasures at once – eating, drinking, conversations, romance, and you don’t even have to do the dishes afterwards. Modern times have ruined us though. Interaction takes place from the bright screen of a smartphone, begging for us to check our emails, just “quickly reply” to that instant message, or check-in on Facebook.
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From The Braai, To The Book: “Fireworks” By Jan Braai
10 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Okes, it is time to impress. It’s National Braai Day on 24 September, and my good friend, Jan Braai, who started the initiative for all of you, has written a book called Fireworks to help you braai more like he would.
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Massive List Of Autumn/Winter 2012 Restaurant Specials For Cape Town & Winelands
19 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
We received this awesome list of Autumn/Winter 2012 specials for Cape Town and Winelands restaurants from a 2oceansviber and feel you should enjoy it too! It is a MASSIVE list of KILLER restaurant specials and contact details!
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Caveau Restaurant Closes Its Doors – The End Of An Era
07 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Cape Town institution and every foodie’s delight, Caveau Restaurant, has closed down. After eight incredible years, there is now one less thing you are able to do before you die. This follows the closing of Caveau Restaurant in Newlands in December 2012. Find memories include their signature chalk board and famed range of tapas, matched […]
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Free Cocktails For The Laydezz At The Mount Nelson – Wednesday Night Is Ladies Night!
03 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
That’s right, beautiful angels – Wednesday night is all about you at the Mount Nelson Planet Bar. The guys should probably be there too, if they know what’s good for them. But they won’t be getting a complimentary gin cocktail when they arrive – that’s just for the girls. What’s more, this vibe is carrying […]
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Local National Geographic Documentary Lures Baboons With Food [VIDEO]
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
The seaside town of Pringle Bay in the Western Cape is outraged at a National Geographic documentary that used food to lure baboons to a specially modified and fully furnished cottage in the area. The cottage is part of the Cape Hangklip Hotel, and the television series, Big Baboon House, raises ethical questions.
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Friday Done Jack’s Way – Entries Now Open For An Epic Friday In Cape Town And Jozi
02 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Entries are now open for an epic Friday on 6 July in Cape Town and Joburg – that’s right gang, this time we’re spreading the love! We’ve always felt that life was too short for a five-day workweek. Much like the folks at the Jack Daniel Distillery, who celebrate Fridays with an age old tradition […]
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The Chilli Challenge On The IanF Show [VIDEO]
27 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Last week, on the IanF Show on 2oceansVibe Radio, Spike and IanF ate chilli because they needed something to keep them warm during Winter Week! Winter Week nestled perfectly around the winter solstice, which was on Friday, the shortest day, and the longest night – yuck! What better way to keep warm than with a […]
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Homophobes Call For Boycott On Oreos
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
America’s gay hating public have called for a boycott after cookie company Oreo posted a picture in support of Gay Pride on it’s website. I’d have thought it would have been the racists, seeing as an Oreo is all about vanilla sandwiched between two delicious pieces of chocolate wafer. Here’s what all the fuss was about.
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Fruit And Veg City Responds To Public Outcry Over Selling Endangered Fish
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Fruit and Veg City has been taking a social media lambasting from irate consumers that caught the fresh food retailer selling endangered fish species in a few of their stores. Debate was intense, with both customers and Fruit and Veg City getting in on the action. The retailer has since issued an official statement detailing how they plan to handle the situation of endangered fish “slipping through their nets”.
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Besides Marmite, What Else Did Your Mother Not Tell You?
14 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
CLICK HERE for a new incredible fact EVERY DAY! Being in my *cough* early 30s, I am often blown away by the youth of today and their lack of knowledge when it comes to important pieces of life facts and information. The other day I asked SilverStreak if he was aware of Gloria Estefan’s hit […]
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Entries Open For First Friday Done Jack’s Way Of 2012 – Eat Like A Food Critic
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hear ye, Hear ye! If you didn’t get the the memo, Friday Done Jack’s Way is BACK! To that end, this is the call to entry for Friday Done Jack’s Way, Friday 22 June 2012. Ready? And GO! This one’s a goodie so listen up. With Cape Town firmly in the grip of winter, there […]
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Steers Takes Online Beating After Failed Burger Promotion
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You may or may not have heard about Steers’ little marketing exercise yesterday. Offering a once-off Wacky Wednesday special of rib burgers for a mere R10, they were right to think that their stores might get a little busy. Boy, did they underestimate the response.
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Dinner In The Sky: The Fancy Restaurant Dangling In Mid-Air [VIDEO]
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A new concept restaurant has met with some recent success. Dinner in the Sky has diners, dining table and waitstaff hoisted some 50 meters into the sky with a crane, where they can enjoy a high-altitude gourmet meal. The latest branch just opened up in in Brussels – take a look after the jump.
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Friday Done Jack’s Way – The Movement Is Back
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Did you just get a little shiver up your spine? I did. I really did. Do you remember that amazing time that we shared together last year? I remember it, so fondly. I really do. We were building something, something good, something great – a movement. A movement based on the premise that no one […]
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Eat Like A Man
06 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It’s a fraught world out there, friends. I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a flurry of activity around Father’s Day this year. It’s like for the first time in a long time, people are really considering what it means to be a man. A man, in this time and place. A man, versus […]
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Cape Town Considering Commercial Uses for Stadium
06 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Trying to avoid the title of White Elephant trainers, the City of Cape Town is considering turning Cape Town Stadium “into a hub of commercial activity”. The idea is to introduce restaurants, night clubs, sports bars and coffee spots to the stadium to make back some of the R44,6 million a year running costs.
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Spotted In Mauritius: Elegant Cock
06 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 2oceansViber recently sent us this picture and we had to share it. It’s nice to know that when you’re stranded on a paradise island, you can still get “Elegant C0ck”, and that the quality is guaranteed. Apparently it’s some sort of mosquito coil. I can’t see the relevance to the name. [Thanks Adrian!]
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2OV Exclusive Interview: Zuckerberg Leaves No Tip – Restaurant Owner Speaks Out
30 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
He may be worth $20 billion, but when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took his new wife, Priscilla Chan to lunch during their honeymoon in Rome he spent 32 Euros – and elected not to leave a tip. The cash-flush couple’s bill came to 32 euros after a lunch of deep-fried artichokes, fried pumpkin flowers, and […]
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Butlers Pizza Thanks The Crew Of The SMIT Amandla Tug Boat
29 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Those of you living on in the real world would have been vaguely aware of a Japanese fishing vessel, the Eihatsu Maru, parked on South Africa’s fair shores in the last two weeks.What you might not have thought about in the ensuing drama was the incredible job that the crew of the SMIT Amandla tug […]
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Finally – Plane Seats For Fat People!
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Fat people take up a lot of space on the plane. I mean, how many times have you had to fold your arms so they can merely fit into their space, and yours. For a long time, we’ve all wanted them to have their own fat seats when they fly. Finally! This is a reality. Thank you, Airbus.
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