by Leah van Deventer | Mar 19, 2021 | Portfolio
“Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the guy who wrote The Little Prince, said, ‘Perfection is achieved not when there’s nothing more to add, but when there’s nothing left to take away.’” This is what David Donde said to me in a recent interview, when I asked him how...
by Leah van Deventer | Dec 29, 2020 | Portfolio
Our first hard lockdown devastated the hospitality industry, with hundreds of restaurants and bars having to close permanently. Now, with Covid cases climbing again, rumours abound that we’re headed for another. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAArTKUFP4_/ We...
by Leah van Deventer | Nov 29, 2020 | Portfolio
Warm, balmy weather calls for cooling cocktails. We take a look at some of the planet’s best loved summer quenchers, and how they’re consumed. Aperol Spritz Aperol, an Italian apéritif, has been around since 1919. In the 50s, the standard white-wine-and-soda mix...
by Leah van Deventer | Nov 29, 2020 | Portfolio
With summer around the corner, we ask some of SA’s top bartenders for their tips and tricks to create killer jam jar cocktails at home. Jam jars are cheerful cocktails that you make, literally, in jam jars. They’re pretty straightforward, usually involving some booze,...
by Leah van Deventer | Sep 26, 2020 | Portfolio
Rum. It’s not a new spirit, but it’s steadily been growing in popularity in South Africa over the last few years – among hip drinkers, at least. Let’s take a look at the history of rum in the country, and see how it’s evolved. While sugarcane spirit is believed to...
by Leah van Deventer | Sep 26, 2020 | Portfolio
“Change accelerates in volatile times.” These words are among the opening lines of this year’s Bar World 100, and they couldn’t be truer for the global drinks industry, brought to its knees by the pandemic and having to rethink much of its methodology. So what...
