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Celebrating Local Business
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Little shop of delights
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WORDS: Debbie Loots • IMAGES: Supplied
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Arthur’s Mini Super in Sea Point is a super cool little grocer, deli and local produce shop where hipsters love to hang out. We chat to Will Dobson, one of the owners, on why community is top priority and how their food is made from pure nostalgia
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What inspired you to open Arthur’s Mini Super in Sea Point?
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tephanie Anastasopoulos and I worked on the SUZELLE DIY cookbook “recipes” together at the beginning of 2018 and spoke at length about how great it would be to have a little store with all our favourite treats and eats. I had a bit of catering equipment that I had amassed over the years and always had a dream to open a tiny hole in the wall serving the most delicious coffee and maybe a treat or two. We stumbled upon the site we are in now and it seemed perfect. We also knew that we would soon build up a wonderful community down this little side road!
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How is your store different?
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It is very small, but as a result is very cosy and welcoming. Steph and I put a lot of effort in the customers experience of the space and try to keep it authentic to what we love, but also what the customers like. The shop is always changing, from the menu to the retail offering as we work it all out, but I think that keeps it fresh and exciting at the same time. You can also guarantee great instagram posts because anywhere you look is like a setting of sorts.
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Why is being part of a community special?
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Community is so important to us and the shop because we all need one another. One must be mindful of where you are and also to be aware of the community that was there before you and will be there long after you’re gone. Communities support each other, not only financially, in the case of a business, but also emotionally and practically. I feel we have brought a lot of the people in the community in our space, which is rewarding.
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Tell us a bit about your menu?
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Our menu could be best described as simple nostalgia. We offer toasted sandwiches, things on toast and fresh deli meats and sandwiches. Everything is made fresh and to order daily. We are quite obsessive about food waste so often run out of things by the end of the day, but we like it that way as it guarantees quality and freshness.
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Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 7.30-5pm
Saturday and Sunday 8-2pm
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Are you planning on opening other mini supers elsewhere soon?
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We are expanding our current shop and are building a bigger kitchen, which will be able to handle the current demand a bit better. We plan to get into catering and ready-made meals soon and offer customers more of a deli experience.
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Wardrobe mistress
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For a bit of high-end retail therapy without the hefty price tag, look no further than Martine’s boutique, a delightful women’s clothing store in Sea Point that offers personalised wardrobe assistance too
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ant to change your wardrobe? Feel like you need some more colour in your life? Well, the answer is simple. Pop over to Martine’s boutique in Sea Point and you will be fixed up by its owner Martine Volks in no time.
Martine really knows and loves what she does. “Clothing must be in my blood,” she says. “For years, my late grandfather owned a couple of men’s retail stores in Mossel Bay.”
Martine opened her first shop in Camps Bay in 1995 when she was only twenty-three years old and fresh out of marketing school. Today she has a shop in Sea Point and a clientele who loves and trusts her.
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“We thank you for your ongoing support over the last twenty-five years and wish you all strength as we tackle this crisis together.” Martine Volks
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Martine’s beautiful and colourful collections are suitable for all age groups and consist of hand-picked local and international brands made from the highest quality fabrics with an uncompromised focus on craftmanship.
“When I put together my ranges, I think of my clients, whether they are local or from overseas, and I love nothing more than seeing them walk out in the outfits I’ve envisaged for them,” she says.
Martine also offers a personalised analysis of her clients’ wardrobes, which includes helping them clear out and recycle unworn and old garments before she updates, restructures and restyles their wardrobes and daily looks.
“At the end of the day dressing is a personal process so I always encourage my clients to stay true to themselves,” says Martine. “And it’s this honesty and personal attention given to each and every person that walks into my store, that bring me such joy.” Never a better time for some retail therapy, we say.
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Martine’s clothing boutique is open for trade and they are taking all necessary steps to ensure the safety of clients: disinfecting hands, credit card machines and counters. Only one on one shopping in store will be allowed, and they will also do home drop offs and apros for clients in the area.
0726279656 to place orders
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It’s a kind of magic
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In a narrow side street off Main Road in Sea Point lives the delightful Duchess of Wisbeach, a restaurant with such personality and attitude that it instantly puts you under its spell.
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emember Sam’s Café in Melville, Johannesburg, back in the nineties? Never mind if you don’t. Just believe me when I say The Duchess of Wisbeach in Sea Point is owned by the same inimitable Theresa Beukes, the chef from Sam’s Café, and boy, does she make magic happen in this little place.
Imagine Paris or New York, a smoky speak easy restaurant and bar, a lounge singer somewhere in a corner belting out golden oldies, and you get The Duchess picture. The place is bustling. Always. There’s laughter, eating, drinking, making conversation around white decked out dining tables and the fabulous bar area. Having a good old time.
The décor is cool and classy, leaning towards a bit of old-fashioned glitz and glam. All kinds of porcelain dogs perch everywhere. On tables, the kitchen counter, the bar. There’s even a couple of real ones (Theresa’s) doing the rounds, greeting guests before minding their own business in a corner somewhere. By the way, well-behaved dogs are welcome here.
Things heat up as the evening progresses. In between perky waiters darting around with hands full of all kinds of fabulous fare (remember Avocado Ritz?) Theresa shows up to greet regulars, or welcome new guests, or bring along a bottle of tequila and shot glasses before sitting down to join in a birthday toast.
But, that’s not the end of the story. It’s the music. As it gets later, so the tunes get amped up. And they hit that nostalgic nerve – full on, no escape. It’s Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong, Doris Day, Elvis, Abba, you name it. And it gets turned up, and turned up, so much so that at one point you simply have to get up and dance. That’s all. Make a good old fool of yourself. But who cares? This place is magic. Be warned. Resistance is futile.
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It’s fabulous to be open again. Tables need to be, and are, 1.5m from each other and we need to be 1.5m from our guests and each other, which we are.
All our staff are permanently masked. Guests obviously can’t be masked while they eat.
We sanitise everything in the restaurant (menus, cutlery, crockery, glasses, condiment containers, loos, bar, chairs, etc.) one million and ten times a night. And our hands have rashes and are flaky from the constant sanitising.
Guests temperatures are taken on arrival and their hands are sanitised. Most of our guests carry their own sanitisers as well.
Otherwise, it’s business as usual!
The music has changed a little; The Zol song has become the lockdown anthem!
People are starting to come out more, albeit with healthy, respectful caution.
Our guests, for now, are younger, the atmosphere more hopeful and less gloomy, and we are steaming ahead one foot in front of the other.
Our Take-Away menu is the same as our normal menu and available for contactless collection.
Lots of love, Theresa
3 Wisbeach Rd Sea Point
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Keep your car squeaky clean
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f your car’s been gathering dust over lockdown, best you get it cleaned up for any adventures on the horizon. And we know just the person to do it for you.
In his pre-covid life, Sea Point’s Simbai Geni worked as a butler at a boutique hotel. Now he’s a fully-fledged entrepreneur who’s using his excellent customer service skills in his own business, MCCS (Mobile Car Cleaning Services). “I have always been a hard worker, but this is the first time I have worked for myself and I am so excited to have an opportunity to build a small business,” he says.
With the help of his mentor Tracey Shearer, Simbai started a Facebook page and marketed his business and now, through word of mouth and referrals, the bookings are flooding in. If you’re on the Atlantic Seaboard and you’d like to book Simbai’s services, all you need to do to book a car cleaning slot is send him a message on Facebook – he’ll come to you with his car cleaning products and a handheld vacuum cleaner.
For an interior and exterior wash, it’s R125 for a sedan, R175 for a medium car or small SUV, and for a large SUV it’s R200. The wash should take about 2 hours, but if your car needs a little extra attention it’ll cost an additional R50.
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