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The Emerald Tea Lounge

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Concord House (“the Pam Golding building”) on the corner of Summerly and Main Road in Kenilworth is being – actually, probably has been by now – demolished and will be redeveloped into offices and shops over the next 18 months.

The partial demolition revealed a previous incarnation of the building – The Emerald Tea Lounge – of which I can find absolutely no record on Google. Presumably, this means that it never actually existed, so why the sign, I wonder?

A bigger view here.

UPDATE: According to the Cape Telephone Directories, The Emerald Tea Lounge was open between 1953-56.

Home

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The Molton Brown Curry Club avoided curry this month (for reasons that I won’t go into) and headed out locally last night for our monthly dinner evening, this time at Home restaurant in 2nd Avenue, Kenilworth – a venue chosen by the Tall Accountant.

As Dave Gahan once put it in Depeche Mode’s song about this intimate, down-to-earth eatery:

And I thank you
For bringing me here
For showing me Home

And why?
Because their warthog ribs were a thing of beauty. Absolutely exquisite and highly recommended.

Make your booking on (021) 683 6066, ask for Jana as your waitress and make sure you mention 6000 miles… – it won’t get you a discount, but it might lead to a few more hits for me.
And that would be nice.

Other places to eat in the Harfield Village area (there are more than you think), are listed here.