I always enjoy taking a drive to Umhlanga and seeing the rapidly changing landscape with new roads, bridges and buildings. One of the newer buildings is the lovely Pearls Mall which is part of the luxury Pearls development. It consists of various stores and eating establishments, with one of those restaurants being Cattle Baron.
Event
Royal Palm Hotel Re-Launches
On Thursday, 01 February 2018, the Royal Palm Hotel, located on Palm Blvd, New Town Centre in Umhlanga Ridge, hosted a prestigious cocktail party to celebrate their official re-launch as an independent hotel. The decision to become independant was based purely on the desire to offer their loyal customer base a more personalised service as an
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Review
What, Where, When – Part 1
Shew! It’s been an eventful and fun two weeks! My sister Carryn came down from Jhb to spend time with my Mom and of course with me as well. But that is actually the wrong place for me to start. I had won a stay at any Protea Hotel for two nights in December 2015 and with the busyness of
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coffee
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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Lifestyle
Oyster Box Hotel High Tea
On the 28th May I went to collect my parents for my Mother’s birthday surprise. I had told them that I needed to fetch them at 1:45pm in order to reach our destination before 2:30pm. We drove and drove and my Mom got more excited and interested as to where we were going. Eventually we reached Umhlanga and I