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Taste by Inspired Living - This SOUTH AFRICAN FOOD BLOG brings you the full spectrum of Taste and the best of the culinary world in South Africa. Read restaurant reviews, wine reviews, tips on food and wine pairing, as well as easy-to-follow recipes. Expect to have your taste buds tantalised and your culinary horizons broadened.

Eating Out, Eating Out With Children, Food, Restaurant Reviews, Taste

What’s Hot Oh My Burger

I am not sure about you but Friday is my night off from cooking! It is usually a take-away and a dvd or we pop out for a quick bite with the family. Either way Friday night calls for a chilled evening, with delicious soul food and great company!

What better way to chill and relax into the weekend, than by enjoying a yummy gourmet burger! So What’s Hot on the burger scene in Cape Town? Well if it is Southern Suburbs relaxed dining you are looking for, then Oh My Burger, is your answer to gourmet-burger dining ~ at its best! Oh My Burger (OMB) is situated in the Westlake Lifestyle Centre. OMB is open only 4 nights a week at a restaurant, which doubles as an organic deli/ bakery during the day.

OMB is the wonder child of local Capetonian Karin Volbrecht.

Burgers are my passion,” says Karin. “I wanted to create a place where people could get together and enjoy a delicious selection of gourmet burgers, and that is how the OMB concept was born. Each of our burgers has been very carefully created to marry the best taste experiences into one satisfying, tasty, wholesome meal.”

We recently visited OMB for a family night out {aka me not wanting to cook!} and a great opportunity to sample a few of their burgers. The menu caters to meat-eaters, chicken-eaters, ‘Tim Noakes” eaters and even vegetarians, with the hand-made, home-made kidney bean, potato and sweet corn patty, or the OMB Black Mushroom – a large black mushroom, drizzled with home-made pesto and topped with hallumi cheese. Added to the mix are options of either potato or sweet potato chips or “Posh Chips” – to wet the appetite, Posh Chils can be drizzled with truffle oil and lightly dusted with pamersan cheese.

I decided to try the top selling burger, which is the Babe Burger, a hand-made beef burger topped with crispy bacon, avo and Emmentaler cheese. It was delicous and if you take away the roll and you have the perfect Banting Meal {I did not as Friday night is my “cheat-night”!!!} The hubby had the Lamb Burger, while the girls opted for the OMB burger. The food was really good and we all felt extremely satisfied{mildly stuffed actually – be warned the burgers are huge!}

The OMB burgers range from R65 for the OMB Burger to R110 for The Fat Boy Burger and even the little people are taken care of with a kiddies burger costing R48. If it is something sweeter you are after why not try one of their delicious milkshakes R24 for a small and R34 for a large!

So if you are looking for somewhere to eat on a Wednesday to Saturday evening, that will keep you coming back for more, make sure you pay a visit to OMB. For more info please visit the Oh My Burger facebook page and also find them on twitter and Pintrest.

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Where: 12 Westlake Lifestyle Centre, Westlake 7966 Cape Town

When: Wed – Sat 6:00pm – 10pm

Contact: Karin 082 9049577

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Food, Kids Food, Recipes, Taste

New Peppadew® Pasta Sauces

The Peppadew® brand, famous for their piquanté peppers and more recently their pickled jalapenos and pickled onions, invited us to attend a launch, where they would reveal a new addition to their family. I must admit I was excited to see what was next on their agenda!

Lindt Hello Chocolate Launches in South Africa

Working with great brands, means testing great products! I particularly LOVE testing new Lindt products! Tough job I know but someone has to do it! I would not call myself a chocolate lover but I love good quality chocolate and Lindt is just that.

I was really excited when this very interesting box was delivered last week, containing the new lifestyle HELLO chocolate range by Lindt. What always amazes me, is how well Lindt markets their brand – not that they really need to but they still find unique and interesting ways to engage the consumer.

The Lindt Master Chocolatiers recently introduced the new HELLO range overseas and now it is SA’s turn. HELLO is a brand new young and vibrant collection of deliciously tasty chocolates, with modern and colourful packaging and the most innovative chocolate recipes, you’re ever likely to meet!

The HELLO range is made up of four exciting new flavours, using the best quality ingredients with a modern twist, designed to make your tummy yummy.

What are the four awesome new flavours you ask – well, meet your new friends…
HELLO my name is Strawberry Cheesecake – Is it me you’re looking for? An irresistible combination of melt-in-your-mouth LINDT milk chocolate, sinfully delicious strawberry pieces and a light fluffy cream filling.
HELLO my name is Cookies and Cream – Smooth LINDT milk chocolate with a tantalising cream filling and crunchy cookie pieces – I’ll make your tummy yummy!
HELLO my name is Caramel Brownie – A delicate liquid caramel with crunchy biscuit pieces wrapped in smooth LINDT milk chocolate – Pleased to sweet you.
HELLO my name is Crunchy Nougat – Velvety LINDT milk chocolate with delicious hazelnut nougat and crunchy brittle pieces – Every bite is crunchilicious!

With the help of my tasters {otherwise known as my family} we munched our way through, all this heavenly goodness – as I said tough job! The group consensus was that Crunchy Nougat was tops, followed closely by Caramel Brownie! Don’t get me wrong there is absolutely nothing wrong with the other two flavours and you will probably be hard pressed to choose a favourite yourself. As always with Lindt, the chocolate is smooth and the flavours are divinely decadent 🙂

All the flavours come in a new on-the-go size stick bar and a larger 100g slab. The on-the-go bar is the perfect size to enjoy with a cup of coffee in the evening – not too much, not too little but just enough 🙂

There is also a box of HELLO chocolates with a selection of different pralines and a tiny heart shaped tin with delicious milk chocolate hearts in cute pink foil wrappings – perfect for saying Hello to someone special. I would be so happy if someone surprised me with such a cute box of chocies!

The Lindt Hello Chocolate Launches in South Africa from June 2014 and will be available exclusively at Woolworths.
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RRP: HELLO On-the-go size bars 39 g R14.95, HELLO Slabs 100 g R29.95, HELLO Heart shaped tin 45 g R49.95, HELLO Chocolate Bits box 100 g R64.95

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