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Cape Town
Artsauce is a Western Cape art supplies retailer at 62 Roeland Street that was started at the end of the last century and supplies materials for painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. It also fulfills bulk orders for art rooms from pre-school through university level and delivers art kits across the Western Cape.
Best for Art materials and bulk art-room supplies
152 Main Road, Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
Getaway: Cape Town purveyor of fine wine to the cognoscenti since 1997, with current shops in Sea Point and Tokai. Cape Town ETC (22 Nov 2021) called it the city's legendary specialist cellar after more than two decades in the CBD.
Best for Cape Town purveyor of fine wine to the cognoscenti since 1997, with current shops in Sea Point and Tokai.
Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock, Cape Town
Espresso Lab has roasted small-batch coffee at Woodstock's Old Biscuit Mill since 2009, serving precise espresso, filter coffee, latte art and coffee cocktails from the same Cape Town spot.
Best for Traceable single-origin coffee and Nordic-leaning roasts
Espresso Lab Microroasters was founded in Cape Town in 2009 by husband-and-wife team Renato Correia and Helene Vaerlien, who built the roastery around a Scandinavian-influenced program: fully traceable single-origin beans and light, Nordic-style roast profiles at a time when darker, blended roasts were still the norm in South African coffee. The original roastery and cafe opened at The Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock -- a converted former biscuit factory that became one of the anchors of the neighborhood's redevelopment -- putting Espresso Lab at the center of Cape Town's third-wave coffee scene from the late 2000s onward. The company has since become a reference point for specialty coffee in the city, built on direct-producer relationships and fair-trade sourcing rather than blended commercial lots, with its V&A Waterfront counter extending that same roasting program and single-origin, traceable-lot approach to Cape Town's tourist harbour front. Correia has been recognized individually within South Africa's coffee industry, including a Cape Mocha Awards nomination. More than fifteen years after opening, Espresso Lab remains one of the longer-running independent microroasters in Cape Town, having helped establish the light-roast, traceable-origin style much of the city's specialty coffee scene has since adopted as a baseline rather than a point of differentiation.
Cape Town
Located at 71 Waterkant Street, Cape Town, Hemelhuijs operates as a restaurant with a deli and retail shop, open Monday-Friday 9am-4pm and Saturday 9am-3pm, and also hosts events and takes reservations.
Best for Deli food and home goods
Cape Town
The Tea Chest, founded by Ieva Tomase, is the sole distributor of TWG Tea in Southern Africa and also introduced the Nordic herbal tea brand PLUKT to South Africa, including five new PLUKT herbal teas such as Lady's Mantle and Cowslip. It sells white, green, oolong, black, rooibos and herbal teas along with tea accessories and teapots.
Best for Imported loose leaf and herbal tea
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