Typically when the core Touchwork workforce will get collectively for lunch it’s all the time someplace within the Steenberg/Westlake area of Cape City, which makes completes sense on condition that it’s each the realm the place our workplace resides in addition to the place everybody however me is definitely based mostly. I’ve been working as a software program developer for the corporate since 2007, and though we have been an honest sized workforce for a good whereas, it’s truly now been numerous years that I’ve been working fully alone, creating, sustaining, and managing our Kinetica SaaS platform.
That is completely positive in fact, primarily as a result of Kinetica is one thing that I created greater than 10 years in the past and thus have a private vested curiosity in seeing it keep alive and thriving, however within the time of a lethal world pandemic it goes with out saying that it’s a lot smarter to have some backup simply in case issues do go… incorrect. Pleasingly we discovered a younger, enthusiastic, Durbanville-based developer to hitch our workforce and so, whereas we patiently wait out his discover interval, headed out to lunch for our first ever nose to nose assembly.
This then is how we discovered ourselves travelling to the outskirts of Durbanville to Tangram on the Durbanville Hills wine property, a beautiful, award successful restaurant on the high of the vineyard, which itself is perched on the highest of a hill with a view in just about all instructions – together with that iconic considered one of Desk Mountain because it stands looming over Cape City on the sting of Desk Bay. Durbanville Hills is in fact identified for its very fashionable vary of wines, a lot of which owes it character to its closeness to the ocean air, balanced with the nice and cozy airflow across the hills, in addition to the soil of the realm, however curiously sufficient, it doesn’t actually have any historical past behind it, having solely actually been established within the 1990’s when seven or so grape farmers from the realm determined to band along with the assistance of Distell to discovered the cellar as a three way partnership and thus begin producing wines on a industrial scale.
When it comes to the restaurant expertise, it’s truly fairly a beautiful one. Passing by way of the wine tasting part and the Dylan Lewis leopard sculpture guarded cellar on the backside, you ascend the steps to achieve the Tangram’s eating corridor, all modernly outfitted with a heat contact and neat aesthetic, and naturally that includes lots of huge glass panel to benefit from the view on provide. (There may be additionally a bastille which you’ll stroll out on to get a view over the vineyards, Desk Bay, Cape City, and Desk Mountain within the distance, although my suggestion can be to attend a bit till the cooler months when the dusty brown grass of summer season offers method to one thing way more luscious inexperienced.)
Some wonderful wine, good firm, a tasty pork stomach starter, and a luxurious springbok venison most important then all properly got here collectively to make for an exceptionally satisfying expertise, even when fairly faraway from our common stomping grounds.
Durbanville Hills is then an awesome upmarket eating with wine expertise that’s properly faraway from the bustle of individuals and possibility if you happen to can’t say make all of it the best way to the arguably extra picturesque winelands of Stellenbosch or Franschhoek.
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