What we’re drinking this week: Kanonkop Kadette Dry Pinotage Rosé The Currency team never needs an excuse to load the fridge with bottles of rosé and settle in for a sunny afternoon of chilling,… by Sarah Buitendach November 8, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
What the chef ordered: Phil Carmichael from Mill St Bistro His career has spanned training under French culinary giant Michel Roux Jnr at iconic La Gavroche in London to opening Gordon Ramsay’s Maze Restaurant… by Sarah Buitendach November 4, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
What we’re drinking this week: Red Cherry Merlot This week the Woolworths WCellar buying team picked a juicy merlot. With notes of dark cherries and cacao, it sounds like dessert in a… by Sarah Buitendach November 1, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
What the chef ordered: Darren Allsopp from VUE Shortmarket Darren Allsopp, who is head chef at rooftop restaurant and bar VUE Shortmarket, on Cape Town’s cool Heritage Square, dishes up what he’d order… by Sarah Buitendach October 28, 2024 Pleasure
What we’re drinking this week: Woolies canned wine Pop into a boutique booze shop or big retailer in London or New York and you’ll see rows and rows of canned drinks. There… by Sarah Buitendach October 25, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
What the chef ordered: Freddie Dias from The Marabi Club Ever wondered what chefs want to eat on their own menus – and where they dine when they’re not the one doing the cooking? … by Sarah Buitendach October 18, 2024 Pleasure
What we’re drinking this week: Ghost Corner, The Bowline This week the Woolworths WCellar buying team picked a fancy but unusual white with a rather spooktacular name. Perfect for a little Halloween drinks… by Sarah Buitendach October 18, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
You’ve got to book a table at Merchant Bar & Grill Since we ate at the original Chefs Warehouse in Bree Street a little over a decade ago, like many Currency readers, we’ve made a… by Sarah Buitendach October 14, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
What we’re drinking this week: Guava Colombard This week the Woolworth’s WCellar buying team picked a white wine made from a cultivar we’d never heard of but are dead keen to… by Sarah Buitendach October 4, 2024 Pleasure
What we’re drinking this week: L’Ormarins Private Cuvée In the first of a new series, we ask the Woolworths WCellar buying team what we should be having a glass or two of… by Sarah Buitendach September 27, 2024 Food & Drinks·Pleasure
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