Welcome to Mother City Living – a guide to Cape Town markets and living a ‘slow’ life in the Mother City. Visit our market guide to find out where and when your local food or craft market is being held. Browse through our event calendar listings to find out what’s on in Cape Town right now!
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The Elgin Cool Wine & Country Festival is a new event showcasing wineries on the Elgin Valley Wine Route. Launching this Saturday (4 May 2013), the festival will feature fifteen participating Elgin wineries who will open their doors to festival goers, providing them with a "fabulous day... more
The 'Fashion in the Village Market' launches this weekend at the Bluebird Garage in Muizenberg. Created by the organisers of the popular weekly Bluebird Garage Food & Goods Market (Friday evenings 4pm-10pm), this new designer and fashion market will be held once a month (first... more
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Every winter the Mount Nelson hosts a series of 'Wine & Dine' events, showcasing and expertly pairing wines from some of our best winemakers with food created by the Planet Restaurant's... more
The Made in the Cape Market is back this weekend at Cavendish Square, from today through to Sunday. This is one of the best-curated craft and designer markets I've been... more
This year, for the third time, Greenpop will be hosting The Reforest Fest in Platbos forest. This year's event will be in two parts, a Family Fest (10,11,12 May 2013) and a Friends Fest (17,18,19 May 2013), with the aim of planting 2,000 trees during each one (4,000 in all). more
It's that time of year again, when ceramics fans go weak at the knees and set their alarm clocks for a morning of serious pottery shopping under the trees at... more
Cape Town is fast becoming a hotspot for craft beer, and this February the Craft Beer Project will be holding a two-day festival in honour of these much-loved brews. The Constantia Craft Beer Project... more
Summer's very definitely arrived, and so it's time to update last year's list of picnic options in Cape Town, with fresh information and prices for the 2012/2013 summer season. As before,... more
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