So having visited Oranjezicht City Farm Markets, it was time to do other hipster things, like chase food trucks and find new cool places. Managed to visit Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants which is an amazing place as there’s a room full of carcasses. They specialise in meats, however on the day I went, a food truck called El Burro was also going to be there at night – so why not! It was especially enticing because they had ceviche on the menu as well.

 

  I finally also managed to visit Woodstock Exchange and get some great food and coffee there – and was impressed by the building itself. Very open air, hispter, fun and colourful!

Breakfast at Superette was quite tasty, though there was too much zucchini spaghetti for me. Juices were served in flasks, and there are a lot of communal tables.

Then came the coffee! Rosetta Roastery, which was featuring Hacienda La Esmeralda geisha and three other origins, done as an espresso as well as filter. It’s been a long time since I’ve consumed a lot of coffee so I was out of practise – I could only drink three before calling it quits. It’s definitely an amazing place because their icon is everywhere – the terrariums are in angular glasses that look a lot like their branding, and it’s all over the seats and even their coffee machine! I really love the look of this place – lots of lines and angles.

 For dinner, there was this cute little place called Charcoal Dining. It had brilliant skull themed wallpaper and a row of animal caricatures. The candlelight and mood lighting made it impossible to take nice pictures of the food though. They served a ceviche which was really tasty but I like lots of ingredients in a ceviche – this one only had tomato and tuna visible, though there was also the flavour of lime, chilli, and I suspect avocado. I also sampled a beef fillet with strawberry and greens salad and balsamic fig dressing. It actually tasted okay, but I’m not sold on the idea of beef and strawberries. A kudu, brown rice and red wine sauce dish was a little underwhelming – the kudu was nice and I would have preferred the rice to be a tad softer, but the red wine sauce tasted like diluted red wine – it looked like there was onion in it but it didn’t taste rich or have much depth.

And another visit to Old Biscuit Mill gave me two nice shots: