More on a top class restaurant around the corner from Liz at Lancaster. ….   Sadly another bug in my Word Press meant that my previous post on DW 11-13 (posted 12 Feb 2011) cannot be accessed.  I wrote :  I have 2 ‘foodie’ guests who come across from Pretoria to sample Jozi’s best restaurants.  They have been so [...]

The service might be a little slow when it’s busy but the prices are VERY reasonable.  Plus if they are full, they take your name and phone you when they have a table ready for you.  This means you can wander off and do some browsing in some of the funs shops along 4th Ave.  Not many [...]

SA Fashion Week, SA’s premier designer platform, prepares to launch the Winter 2012 Designer Collections in Johannesburg from 22 – 25 September.  The SA Fashion Week Winter 2012 Designer Collections will be staged at the Rosebank Hotel. Tickets are R180 and may be booked directly from www.safashionweek.co.za from 1 September. 
The following week the Summer 2011 [...]

Rosebank is fast becoming Johannesburg’s third largest high-rise business centre, after Sandton and the inner city, according to the research conducted by Broll, one of Africa’s leading commercial property services group. ‘Rosebank is reviving, with great retail and new office developments which are well-supported by the surrounding residential nodes and the Gautrain station,’ says Jane [...]

5 star hotel accommodation is really suffering:
From the August 2011 Rosebank Review sent out by the Rosebank Management District 
African sun Hotels has decided to close the Grace hotel on 31 August 2011 due to the continued pressures of the global recession which have negatively affected the South African travel and tourism industry.   The hotel [...]

June 28th, 2011  6:44 pm 
B & B Perfection
Liz at Lancaster is located in the cute suburb Craighall Park which has several restaurants and markets within walking distance.  My husband and I have been fortunate enough to travel all over the world and we can say that Liz, the owner of the B & B has [...]

Liz at Lancaster received two great accolades at the AA Travel Guides American Express Awards on 8th May. The establishment was a finalist in the category Small Guesthouse with self-catering. Within this category received Highly Commended (ie came in the top 3).  Then Liz and her staff also received the prestigious award for ‘People who go [...]

Opening on 14th June until 30th June Ndolvu exhibition entitled Imfuyo [Domestic Animals] deals as the title suggests with the role of cows in traditional Zulu culture.  Helen Joseph’s work uses the renditions of the female nude to explore issues of violence and abuse against women. 

 
 
Gary Stephens charcoal and mixed media work of hairstyles is showing on an exhibition entitled Braid.  So include it in a visit to the Jan Smuts Art Strip (see other blog posts for further exhibitions close by).  Closes on 27th June. Gallery Momo 52 7th Ave Parktown North 011 327 3247.  

Liz at Lancaster is a finalist in the 2011 AA Travel Guides American Express Accommodation Awards programme in the category B&B with Self-catering (small 1- 7 rooms).    The awards are now in their 18th year and more than 41 000 consumers commented on approximately 1 100 AA Quality Assured or star-graded establishments across the country, either [...]