Smart takes on food, coffee & service
Savior Coffee shares the science of coffee with lover of the bean
Savior Brand Co
51 Station Drive, Durban
Call: 082 447 9690
Coffee Science is hot and happening! Savior brand likes to have fun with coffee and have started a Brew Bar on Fridays between 10am and 1pm. This is where they experiment with coffee, play with aeropress and syphons and extraction times and all manner of things relating to coffee.
Udon noodles with pork
The People’s Republic of Noodles
69, 7th Street, Linden, Randburg
Call 011 7821736
Open: Monday to Saturday, noon to 3pm; 6pm to 10pm
“I don’t want to know what it’s ‘bean’,” my father-in-law says. “I want to know what it is now.” Well I know what it is now. It’s a dish of dry-fried green beans in black bean sauce. Crunchy like whole fried prawns, coated in salty paste, we open our mouths to them like congregants of a snake-feeding preacher.
Love Coffee’s logo
Love Coffee
484 Windermere Road, Durban
Call: 031 201 0219
This small black and red converted garage serves very decent coffees, cold pressed fruit juices, smoothies, hot chocolates (Madagascan cocoa and White Hot chocolate) and one or two teas. But what makes this such a popular spot is the great flavours of both its food and drinks. On a recent trip I was talked into trying Kombucha, a fermented tea with medicinal properties made to a 2 000 year old recipe.
Superfood cocktails at Tanya’s Cafe at the MyHotel, Chelsea, London
NEW FOOD TRENDS
Last year it was all about kale, chia seeds, kimchi and cauliflower mash as substitute for potato (thanks to the Banting diet which just won’t go away). Now Shrewdfood can reveal some new food trends, which might or might not come our way. Like turmeric as a health food, crazy coffees, camel’s milk and healthy cocktails.
BEANS WORTH DYING FOR
Glenwood Bakery
398 Esther Roberts Road
Glenwood
Call: 031 205 0217
Open: Monday to Friday from 6am to 3.30 pm (lunch is served from 10am to 3pm); Saturdays and Sundays, from 6am to 1 pm. Open also Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights from 5 pm till 8 pm.
Much has been already been written about the Glenwood Bakery, one of the forerunners of the artisanal bread revolution in Durban. But the bakery does more than sell fabulous bread. It offers breakfasts, sandwiches and other light meals, with the menu varying according to the day. But if you are looking for a good cup of coffee, this is also the place to go.