April 2009

Kappabashi-dori

April 25, 2009

There is a small section of Sir Lowry Road in Woodstock (a light industrial area adjacent to the Cape Town city centre) that has so many kitchen and catering supply businesses that it’s known as caterers’ alley. I use the phrase “so many” with reservation, because they are probably only numerous in a Cape Town [...]

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Restaurant Kanda

April 17, 2009

(3-6-34 Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Telephone: 03-5786-0150) We were in a side street off a succession of side streets that could only claim vague proximity to the very swish Roppongi Hills precinct, but to all intents and purposes we were parked outside a nondescript apartment block. One might not unreasonably have doubted the presence of any [...]

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The Dark Side by any other name

April 11, 2009

I’ve discovered something new to pay attention to when marketing our wines – the Chinese translation of each product’s name (in the case of Cloof, with my flights of creative fantasy, this can cause additional headaches for the translator). Given the amount of work that goes into label concepts and design, we may well need [...]

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