I'm going to The Good Food and Wine Show, are you?!

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm back!

It's that time of year again, people, when The Good Food and Wine Show rolls into Cape Town. It's the only thing that makes these wet and windy grim days better! I'm talking stalls and stalls of beautiful food and wine to taste and buy! I go every year, last year, or maybe it was the year before, I bought some DELICIOUS strawberry wine that wasn't even available for retail in South Africa yet, how's that for incredible!

This year is bound to be even more incredible, since top chefs like Gordon Ramsay, of Hell's Kitchen, Reza Mohammed, Eric Lanlard, Giorgio Locatelli and Willie Harcourt- Cooze will be hosting Chef's in Action theatres. At these shows the chef in question performs a show for the audience, who are then invited to taste the produce created during the show. It's an experience of a lifetime, and one any foodie worth his fleur de sel should NOT be missing!

Even BBC Lifestyle is getting on board, with the exciting Get Fresh hands-on workshops, while the Stellenbosch Slow Food Market educates and features the best of local slow food produce.

All in all, you should make a plan to get to The Good Food and Wine Show this weekend, it runs from Thursday 13 - Sunday 16 May, and adult standard tickets are R80. PLEASE go, you will not regret it!

{Full disclosure: I have been offered free entry to the show in return for a post. However, due to the fact that I have been to the Show for the last two years and thoroughly enjoyed it, I would pay, and have paid, gladly for these tickets, and would write a post regardless.}

Taste of Cape Town Giveaway - The Winners!

Ah! Oh heavens, I just realised that my giveaway ended yesterday, and I totally forgot about it!

{Image Source: Cape Town Daily Photo}
Reading through your comments really made me laugh, so much so that I begged the lovely people at Taste of Cape Town to give me a few more tickets to give away, and they did!! I now have 4 sets of double standard tickets to give to 4 of you lucky people!

Ok the winners are... *drumroll please*
Marisa - yes, you get brownie points for being the first to comment! and I sympathise with you having to audit
Ashci - That was just too hilarious! You and your Ginger need to experience Ginja to believe it! And I do believe that they would enjoy a real Ginger in the stall!
Lady Raven - The sheer determination you show to try Nobu needs to be rewarded! See you there!
Anonymous - To make up for all the toast and cereal weekends, I pick you!

To my other entrants, thank you So much for entering, it was such a pleasure reading all the comments! Will the winners drop me a DM on Twitter (I'm @polkadotcupcake) or otherwise contact me, with your email addresses, so I can inform you of the collection procedure.

Thanks again, and keep following! I'm going to try and organise another giveaway soon, this was so much FUN!!

GIVEAWAY - Taste of Cape Town!

Oh wow.. I'm actually too scared to go and see exactly how long it's been since my last post. I know it's bad though, it's been too long, and I promise to try harder, let's just leave it at that, shall we? 

In order to make it up (if I still have any readers left after my incredibly long absence) I have something special for you!! YES!! My very first giveaway! This makes me feel like a really real blogger, so stick with me, it'll be worth it!

I've teamed up with the lovely souls at the Taste of Cape Town, and I'm giving away 2 double sets of standard entry tickets, each set worth R160! Isn't that incredible!? I'm getting carried away, but we're talking the Cape Colony, Bistro 1682 (incredible, I went there! What? Did I forget to tell you?), Maze, Nobu, Reuben's, Ginja, etc., etc.! You don't need me to tell you that those are some of the finest restaurants in the greater Cape Area! This is all the restaurants you've ever wanted to try, but been to worried about the price tag/pretentiousness/sommelier/whatever to actually go. At the Taste of Cape Town, you can try them all, for about R30 a dish!

Now, when you pay full price for the tickets (as I have done, and even if you don't win, I URGE you to go!), it is a pricey day, though well worth it. But you can get it for free! Yes! FREE! And who doesn't like free stuff?

Anyway, so to win tickets, here's what I want you to do. It's simple! Leave me a comment telling me which of these restaurants you've been dying to try (hint: go to the website and see the list of restaurants), and I'll pick a winner! 

Tell me something interesting, some reason why you would kill to try one of these restaurants, a funny story of what you might do, or even a recommendation for one of the restaurants that you HAVE tried and loved, and you can win a set of double tickets from me and the kind folks at the Taste of Cape Town! That's all.. Closing date for this giveaway is Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 (cause I hate Tuesday, and it needs some perking up!)

Now, go forth and comment!!