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...years that he ran the kitchen at La Colombe, the award-winning French restaurant on Cape Town's Constantia Uitsig wine estate, Franck Dangereux was hailed by many as the best chef in Africa. An émigré from Provence, Dangereux blended traditional French cuisine with South African ingredients to such perfection that he earned a spot on Restaurant Magazine's list of the world's 50 best restaurants in 2006. Then he quit...
...dining on the continent, if not anywhere. Imagine half a dozen sensational oysters for $5. The perfect Japanese-style tuna tartare for $8. A bouillabaisse terrine set on mussels and a creamy saffron sauce for $10. Dangereux even persuaded two of the finest local vineyards, Cape Point and Klein Constantia, to bottle his own blends, which he sells for $8 each...
...over the blue peak. The atmosphere is appropriately elysian. Capetonians, known for savoring a slow pace of life, feast on picnics of prawn salad and cold Karoo lamb, washed down with that year's sauvignon blanc from Constantia's famous vineyards, a 10-minute drive away...
Mark Thatcher likes his privacy. at the whitewashed mansion he shares with his wife and two children in Constantia, outside Cape Town, security guards patrol along the neatly trimmed hedges, and a closed-circuit television camera keeps watch from the top of a wrought-iron security gate. Such security measures are common in South Africa's wealthier suburbs, but neighbors describe Thatcher, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a security-obsessed recluse. "He's a mysterious character," says one. For such a private man, last Wednesday's morning raid by South Africa's Scorpion police...
Martin Moore, winemaker at Groot Constantia, a working farm since 1685, is determined to re-create those fabulous red Muscats of the past. Along with a number of other wine estates whose histories go back more than 300 years, Groot Constantia is a national monument. Museum pieces in their own right, many of the stately, whitewashed Dutch-style farm buildings, with thick walls and high ceilings of oak and teak, are tasting rooms...