Glad Tidings We are proud to announce a new chapter in our 14-year history. After a two month, high season transition, the venue will be taken over by the Luttig sisters – Madri and Orscilla – effective March 1st 2023. The siblings are the 7th generation of the well-established Prince Albert Luttig family. Madri, a star baker and creative event designer, joined African Relish in 2021 and immediately enhanced the venue applying her expertise in floral arrangements and staff management.  Orscilla, a highly-regarded chef, will lead the culinary program, while, Liane and Bianca will manage sa ..read more

Summer holidays Mid summer and the year end holidays are here. We are happy to have had an increase in visitors this year and over the last few weeks a number of international tourists have enjoyed their African Relish experience with a meal at The Chef’s Café, a Foodie Tour and cooking class or stay in our cottages.  There have been a few hiccups on the way, our website failing us a few times will need a major overhaul in 2023; the town has had some municipal water issues that have impacted on many in our surrounds; load shedding (thank goodness for our gas cookers and wood fired pizza o ..read more

The Cooking School Chef Hendry continues to host an array of cooking classes. Visiting chefs include Mynhardt Joubert, Recipes for Love and Murder 20 – 23 May Nina Timm, A Feast of Winter Comforts 5 – 7 August Gordon Wright – a weekend of Karoo Food July 8 – 10 Loubie Rusch: The Edible Landscape 14 – 16 October Kids cooking classes, we love family classes and kids classes. Please talk to us about the fun options available over the school holidays. Karoo Cycling We continue hosting groups of cyclists who enjoy the routes in and around Prince Albert, with a bit of food and culture thrown i ..read more

Summer. Wishes to you for a happy, healthy and abundant 2022 from the African Relish team. What better way to start the new year than with a week of cooking classes and being able to use the harvest from our freshly minted Bard garden. The garden is bountiful and rewarding. The Chef’s Café is able to include salad greens picked a stone’s throw away from the kitchen as we coped with the summer rush over Christmas and New Year. During the last weekend course of 2021, The Edible Landscape with Loubie Rusch, we pickled, fermented vinegars’, cooked preserves and prepared sumptuous dishes from the A ..read more

The Bard Garden is our new potager in the cooking school grounds. The first phase of planting was completed on 27th October under a brooding indigo sky and the heavens opened within minutes of planting the last of the sunflower seeds. After the rain The process began by asking Brett Bard of Tortoiseback Vegan Haven to collaborate with us on the design and cultivation of the garden in order to grow flowers, herbs and vegetables for use in the cooking school and restaurant. It will be a learning vehicle for our chefs and gardening team, as well as an inspiration for the students to the school an ..read more

Breaking ground, the beginnings of a sustainable fork to fork project. We are preparing the land for The Bard Garden. What was once lawn will become a 10 x 15m organic potager garden. The garden is based on permaculture principles and agro-ecological growing techniques. Devised by Brett Bard, the design concept is taken from The Golden Ratio. The potager will be constructed along a spiral path focus with elongated beds and paths radiating outwards within the rectangle. Being vegan and an animal rights activist Brett celebrates the joys of plant-based living, and is well known for the abundance ..read more

Cooking classes We’re happily busy in the kitchen, training, learning and giving cooking classes, furthermore winter is a good time to perfect our skills and learn new recipes for new courses. Indeed snow is on the Swartberg Mountains in view of the cooking school and the kitchen is a hearty place to be. Lockdown classes are conducted with full health protocol. We are running small and safe open classes for groups or families. Our chefs are happy to conduct private classes one or one. Credit: DiscoverCTWC Our resident local chefs Hendry, Shane, Kentin and Madri focus on our Karoo tapas, herita ..read more

Winter Warmers. Mid winter and the Karoo is a gem waiting to be visited, definitely the secret season. Warm sunny blue skies during the day although chilly at night. Our Winter Warmer accommodation special is just the trick for a weekend getaway for two, or a school holiday outing family of four. Our cottages have wood burning fires, heated rooms and hot water bottles. The accommodation offer, valid till end August, is a two night, half day cooking class or Foodie Tour inclusive with our cookbook. Mid June 16-20 June, sees the Prince Albert Open Studios. A perfect chance to see the homes and s ..read more

Is there a change of season in the Karoo? Temperatures do begin to drop from April, the later sunrise and earlier sunset become more exquisite to watch, and local tourists make their way into the cooler landscape for cycling and exploring. African Relish enjoys the autumn with it’s holiday season and the activities we share with guests. As a year passes with the Covid lockdown we are happy to be #openforbusiness. Foodie Tour We have added new suppliers and artisans to our Foodie Tour. An early morning stop at the Karoo Slaghuis for a demonstration on how to debone a leg of lamb. Followed ..read more

It’s February – the month of love. There is a lot that we love about our business, and seeing as it is the shortest month of the year we thought we would reflect on its message. More than anything we love the fact that ‘We Are Open’! We love our town and its people, the fact that it is so often receives accolades for being a hidden gem, Prince Albert hosts many cultural, outdoor events and sporting activities. Wonderful authors, poets, painters, artists, producers, shop owners, farmers, botanists, archaeologist and architects, plus new residents and a young generation willing to learn and vol ..read more