My description of Narina Trogon as “Braamfontein’s brave little restaurant” took on new meaning last night as the Rose’s taxi driver refused to drive to Braamfontein from town via Sauer Street – seems that the taxi rank at Bree Street has now been claimed by crooks. “The police did a raid last week” he said in a hushed voice “and found condoms and a gun with the number filed off.”

So I guess the Rose’s nighttime route to Narina is via the M1 and the Smit Street off-ramp. Which I will bear in mind tomorrow night when the charismatic music guru, Charles Leonard will be DJ-ing at Narina from 8pm ‘til late. His set will include jazz, soul, R&B, funk, rock, indie, reggae, soca, dancehall, dub, dubstep, hip-hop, kwaito, bubblegum, electro, soukous, highlife, Afrobeat, benga, Raï, Jùjú, Palm-wine, Chimurenga, Cumbia, Makossa, Tropicalismo, and more, according to Aryn Guiney.

I do hope she persuades Charles to include some Tom Waits to further the musical education of head chef Ross Wilson who is rolling out a spring menu and some funky cocktails that evening. Noticing that the restaurant calls itself Narina Trogon & The Canopy reminds me of a visit to Robertson last month for Robertson Slow.

Paul Barrett and Ross Wilson

The highlight of the weekend was an afternoon spent hacking up dead pigs on Wederom farm with Almien du Toit, a raconteur who makes Oom Schalk Lourens look like a Trappist monk. Almien’s daughter trained as a chef in Stellenbosch and the family now offer catered weddings on the farm. “We had this poppie phoning from London to arrange a wedding in February. She didn’t want a sit down lunch but was very insistent on canopies. She went on about them so much, I eventually told her we had plenty of trees on the farm and shade would be no problem.” I wonder who told Almien that canapés and canopies are not the same thing, even in Robertson. Maybe it was Ross.

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