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?Travel and Restaurant Guide?
What do you think is the most useful travel guide that I can buy once
I am in SA for an older couple on a month long trip? Is there a SA restaurant guide? What about the AA atlas? I am planning on getting some free material from AA and the tourist Authority. Thanks Doug Clark |
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?Travel and Restaurant Guide?
Hi Doug,
Whatever you do, NEVER trust most restaurant guides :-) The recent "Best of Johannesburg Awards" are testimony to this. Most awards went to chain restaurants, because morons got to vote on their favourite restaurants. A chain called "The Ocean Basket" won an award for best seafood chain (orsome similar category)but in reality they specialise in limp, overcooked, dreary fish, disgusting salads, and tartare sauce that tastes like a combination of cheap mayonaise and battery acid. I'll see if I can find a DECENT guide to restaurants in Johannesburg for you. If not, I'll post recommendadtions here. One place I must recommend is Asaggi in the Post Office centre in Illovo. It was started as a small family run Italian restaurant, and it's always fully booked. The quail is melt-in-the-mouth marvelous, the steak tartare is sublime. Their pasta is always superb. BTW, I have no financial or personal interest in any restaurants, the only interests I do have are gastronomic :-) Happy eating, Marc On 4 Feb 2007 10:47:17 -0800, " wrote: What do you think is the most useful travel guide that I can buy once I am in SA for an older couple on a month long trip? Is there a SA restaurant guide? What about the AA atlas? I am planning on getting some free material from AA and the tourist Authority. Thanks Doug Clark |
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?Travel and Restaurant Guide?
On Feb 7, 8:54 am, Marc Lurie wrote:
Hi Doug, Whatever you do, NEVER trust most restaurant guides :-) The recent "Best of Johannesburg Awards" are testimony to this. Most awards went to chain restaurants, because morons got to vote on their favourite restaurants. A chain called "The Ocean Basket" won an award for best seafood chain (orsome similar category)but in reality they specialise in limp, overcooked, dreary fish, disgusting salads, and tartare sauce that tastes like a combination of cheap mayonaise and battery acid. I'll see if I can find a DECENT guide to restaurants in Johannesburg for you. If not, I'll post recommendadtions here. One place I must recommend is Asaggi in the Post Office centre in Illovo. It was started as a small family run Italian restaurant, and it's always fully booked. The quail is melt-in-the-mouth marvelous, the steak tartare is sublime. Their pasta is always superb. BTW, I have no financial or personal interest in any restaurants, the only interests I do have are gastronomic :-) Happy eating, Marc On 4 Feb 2007 10:47:17 -0800, " wrote: What do you think is the most useful travel guide that I can buy once I am in SA for an older couple on a month long trip? Is there a SA restaurant guide? What about the AA atlas? I am planning on getting some free material from AA and the tourist Authority. Thanks Doug Clark- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Dear Marc, Thank you for your advice. We are leaving tomorrow with the first week in Johannesburg. One of your newspapers recommended a book called EATING OUT. I will try to check my mail again but I am going to the SANDTON mall Saturday and visit the AA office and bookstore. Also, YAHOO travel has a "top ten" resturant list which includes ASAGGI. First trip so every thing is not going to be the perfect. If by chance you wrote me at my email address and mentioned that you were coming to NYC, I am sorry to say that I lost your email address as I want to send you some of our favorite NYC resturants. I have started the blog for this trip and it is at:beulavillenc- travel.blogspot.com Thank you and the rec.travel.africa group for everything. Doug Clark |
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Hi Doug, Please make a record of my contact details: Cellphone +27114974581 Landline (011)3461310 You're welcome to give me a call if you have any hassles, or simply need some info. Are you OK for a ride from the airport to your apartment? I'd be more than happy to meet you at the airport and give you a ride to your apartment, and maybe a short orientation tour of Johannesburg on the way. (Obviously, this depends on what time you arrive, as I am involved in a conference very near the airport until Sunday.) For the record, I have no interest in the hospitality or touris industry at all. I simply know that every tourist who visits my country and has a positive experience becomes an ambasador when they return. Regards, Marc -0800, " wrote: On Feb 7, 8:54 am, Marc Lurie wrote: Hi Doug, Whatever you do, NEVER trust most restaurant guides :-) The recent "Best of Johannesburg Awards" are testimony to this. Most awards went to chain restaurants, because morons got to vote on their favourite restaurants. A chain called "The Ocean Basket" won an award for best seafood chain (orsome similar category)but in reality they specialise in limp, overcooked, dreary fish, disgusting salads, and tartare sauce that tastes like a combination of cheap mayonaise and battery acid. I'll see if I can find a DECENT guide to restaurants in Johannesburg for you. If not, I'll post recommendadtions here. One place I must recommend is Asaggi in the Post Office centre in Illovo. It was started as a small family run Italian restaurant, and it's always fully booked. The quail is melt-in-the-mouth marvelous, the steak tartare is sublime. Their pasta is always superb. BTW, I have no financial or personal interest in any restaurants, the only interests I do have are gastronomic :-) Happy eating, Marc On 4 Feb 2007 10:47:17 -0800, " wrote: What do you think is the most useful travel guide that I can buy once I am in SA for an older couple on a month long trip? Is there a SA restaurant guide? What about the AA atlas? I am planning on getting some free material from AA and the tourist Authority. Thanks Doug Clark- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Dear Marc, Thank you for your advice. We are leaving tomorrow with the first week in Johannesburg. One of your newspapers recommended a book called EATING OUT. I will try to check my mail again but I am going to the SANDTON mall Saturday and visit the AA office and bookstore. Also, YAHOO travel has a "top ten" resturant list which includes ASAGGI. First trip so every thing is not going to be the perfect. If by chance you wrote me at my email address and mentioned that you were coming to NYC, I am sorry to say that I lost your email address as I want to send you some of our favorite NYC resturants. I have started the blog for this trip and it is at:beulavillenc- travel.blogspot.com Thank you and the rec.travel.africa group for everything. Doug Clark |
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On Feb 7, 3:54 pm, Marc Lurie wrote:
Hi Doug, Whatever you do, NEVER trust most restaurant guides :-) The recent "Best of Johannesburg Awards" are testimony to this. Most awards went to chain restaurants, because morons got to vote on their favourite restaurants. A chain called "The Ocean Basket" won an award for best seafood chain (orsome similar category)but in reality they specialise in limp, overcooked, dreary fish, disgusting salads, and tartare sauce that tastes like a combination of cheap mayonaise and battery acid. I'll see if I can find a DECENT guide to restaurants in Johannesburg for you. If not, I'll post recommendadtions here. One place I must recommend is Asaggi in the Post Office centre in Illovo. It was started as a small family run Italian restaurant, and it's always fully booked. The quail is melt-in-the-mouth marvelous, the steak tartare is sublime. Their pasta is always superb. BTW, I have no financial or personal interest in any restaurants, the only interests I do have are gastronomic :-) Happy eating, Marc On 4 Feb 2007 10:47:17 -0800, " wrote: What do you think is the most useful travel guide that I can buy once I am in SA for an older couple on a month long trip? Is there a SA restaurant guide? What about the AA atlas? I am planning on getting some free material from AA and the tourist Authority. Thanks Doug Clark There is a guide to the Cape Town (and surrounding area) restaurants called Rossouw's Restaurants. About 4 years in a row of update publishing and seems to do a decent job. http:// www.rossouwsrestaurants.com/ There's also an annual magazine published covering all of SA called Eat Out. You can get it at newsstands in Exclusive Books, at Woolworths, etc. HTH Kurt http://afrikatourism.blogspot.com |
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On Feb 4, 6:47 pm, "
wrote: What do you think is the most useful travel guide that I can buy once I am in SA for an older couple on a month long trip? Is there a SA restaurant guide? What about the AA atlas? I am planning on getting some free material from AA and the tourist Authority. Thanks Doug Clark Maybe this could help plan your travels & you could print out maps to carry. This also has an "historical" option which marks out major points of interest. Totally free. If you have a program called TechSmith SnagIt that would make it easier. Have fun & enjoy South Africa, folks. Google Earth Free 4.0 Build 2737 for Windows Download it here. http://softex.meganet.lt/news.php?readmore=3295 No serial required |
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