Month: August 2026
As spring approaches and South Africa’s hospitality calendar moves into a new season, the hotel restaurant is becoming a more serious destination in its own right. The old assumption that a hotel dining room exists ...
There is a particular pleasure in taking to the road when the Cape turns towards spring. From 1 September, the light changes, the vineyards begin their seasonal shift and the long, polished days invite a ...
There is a particular kind of restraint that separates true luxury travel from its imitators, and nowhere is that distinction clearer than on a coastal road driven slowly, in a car built for exactly that ...
Seafood dining at the highest level has always depended on proximity, the shortest possible distance between catch and plate, and few South African cities understand that principle as instinctively as Durban. As affluent travellers move ...
The road trip has quietly become one of luxury travel’s more considered pursuits. Where private aviation compresses distance into convenience, a well-planned drive does the opposite: it insists on time, on landscape, on the gradual ...
Private members’ clubs have quietly become one of the more telling indicators of a city’s economic weather. Where wealth accumulates, discretion tends to follow, and Cape Town’s latest additions to the genre confirm that the ...
Johannesburg’s fine dining landscape has entered a period of quiet confidence. Rather than importing formulas wholesale from London or New York, the city’s most accomplished kitchens are building menus around South African cooking as a ...
Across Gauteng’s affluent suburbs, the sedan has quietly ceded its throne. Where a low-slung saloon once signalled arrival, the driveways of Sandton, Steyn City and Blair Atholl now favour something taller, heavier and considerably more ...
Luxury dining has entered a quieter phase. Across the world’s financial districts, the loudest tables – those built for spectacle, queues, and Instagram geometry – are ceding ground to something more guarded: rooms without signage, ...
Luxury travel has quietly shifted its centre of gravity. Where once the private jet and the beach villa defined aspiration, a growing cohort of affluent travellers now prize something less transactional: the drive itself, undertaken ...
