Cowley, Ramshackle, McGregor and random(Photo via)

Dammit, that bloody came out of nowhere!

I’m joking, who honestly wants to go spend a months salary on dinner?

I’ve never been a fan of high end cuisine, I’d rather be watching live music somewhere random and then swinging past Barcellos afterwards for a chicken. Call me a plebb, but this high end dining is not for me. I feel too uncomfortable, in fact I generally feel uncomfortable anywhere pretentious and smart, although I do still have another character I pull out when speaking to the who’s who of Cape Town. So I use that character when speaking to myself, naturally. I’m talented and gifted like that!

Anyway, Cape Town is a fairly chilled place and people dig to do chilled things, like hang out at clubs listening to music, chilling on the beach and having relaxed evenings. Something like Maze is not a place we’re going to go to. I want to cruise somewhere in my boardshorts and not have to worry about who hears what I have to say. I don’t want to have to be reserved at the dinner table. I want to play with my food, laugh until I cry and I want to spill food on my clothing. That’s just me though…

My first hint that things at Maze may not go so well over the coming months was when I was charged R110 for a Red Bull and a glass of red wine at the bar at The One & Only. Now I actually don’t mind that they charge this, because you are paying for being in a place like that. All I’m saying is that I don’t care much for surroundings, I care for an atmosphere and good friends. Being surrounded by marble and gold and crystal really doesn’t impress me. Being surrounded by awesome friends and live music in a relaxed atmosphere does impress me. So does the fact that I’m not paying towards some R1 billion establishment. While the height of excess, and while I do appreciate it, it’s not some place I’d go ever day. Or ever.

I’ve never been to Maze because it doesn’t appeal to me, in fact I don’t know of many people who have been there. And if they have, they’ve been once. Once to see it, but they won’t go back, and now they can’t.

Actually I’m tired of writing this piece, I don’t know why I started in the first place!