• Izimbali Coffee Cafe

    Looking for a destination coffee shop with lots of fresh air and a lovely view?   Take a drive to the wonderful Izimbali Coffee Cafe in Pietermaritzburg. This family run coffee shop on a farm does not only offer delicious food and coffee, but also activities for the exercise orientated.     Exercise : There

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  • Get On Track With Coffee

    Following on from my last post about new coffee shops I am pleased to write about another two new places. These two coffee shops are not situated in Durban but in Hilton (the gateway to the Midlands) and in Lions River. What makes these two special is that they are both at former train stations.

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  • Salt Rock Coffee Company

    The South African coffee scene is so exciting. We have so many fabulous coffee spots and shops to choose from with owners and baristas putting their all into making a perfectly delicious cup of coffee for their customers to savour. What also gives me joy is seeing the owners of coffee shops using locally roasted

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  • African Roots Coffee

    I first heard about and tasted African Roots Coffee when we received a bag of their Tanzanian beans from the Coffee Magazine’s Discover Great Coffee Club in September 2015. We (my husband and I) subsequently chatted to the owner, Mark Platt, at that years Good Food & Wine Show in Durban. The next time I saw Mark Platt was when

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