Peet Pienaar

- Aug 31, 2011 -

CHOP – secret restaurant Cape Town by Peet Pienaar & Hannerie Visser

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Yeah! Finally I went to CHOP, Peet Pienaar and Hannerie Visser’s secret restaurant. I invited my birthday-husband Desmond for an awesome foodie-design experience. We had a kick ass time with our friends Jacques and Toinette and met new ones as well and talked about funny things like “What would you prefer: being fried, bolied, sautéd, grilled…?” ;) The secret restaurant attracts good people that like good food (veal brain ravioli, vodka jelly, an amazing steak, smoked potatoes, a picture of a salad) and a rad experience.



An excerpt from an interview I did with the two geniuses.

Tell me more about it, the secret restaurant..
H: Well, it’s a secret.
P: It’s called CHOP and it only seats 12 people at a time and it happens once a week.

If it’s not a set restaurant, is it like a pop-up space?
P: Yeah, it’s a pop-up space and it got a set menu of 5-courses.
H: … and it’s on Thursdays. It’s 350 per person and it’s with beer and wine and water.
P: It’s quite an experience; it includes quite a bit of design and stuff, we’re trying to push things there that we love.

(For bookings, send an email to toffie@thepresident.co.za) – I visited the last one for now since the Toffie Food Festival will be their priority in the next days



See you at the Toffie Food Festival this coming weekend!

- Cape Town, Design, food, Food Cape Town -
- Aug 19, 2011 -

The 167 best dishes in Cape Town – MENU by The President

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Print publication, MENU tells you what to eat where


Whatever Hannerie Visser and Peet Pienaar (The President) touch, always seems to turn into gold. Their personal interest in food and the story that comes with it made them organise the Toffie Food Festival which is happening on the 3rd and 4th of September 2011 in Cape Town’s City Hall.

A few weeks before, on Wednesday 17th of August, they launched something else foodie: MENU – a publication witth Cape Town’s 167 best dishes. In the editorial, Peet Pienaar says “Shopping malls killed our food culture and everyone just goes to them. There are almost no good butchers left in the Cape Town CBD or street stalls selling Xhosa or Afrikaans food. Yet food is what most people can be creative with; food tells us who we are and where we come from. That’s why we decided to put together a guide about the best meals in Cape Town. When I decide to get food, I choose a place based on what I feel like eating… We wanted to show the diversity of the city through food and the people behind it.”

From breakfast, bread, edible Ubuntu to Afropolitan, Asian and others. Get your issue at the giftshop, Church in Spin Street and enjoy great visuals that will make you hungry.

Read what What The President thinks about African design and Cape Town and what’s happening at the Toffie Food Festival this September.

by Antonia Heil

- Cape Town, food, Food Cape Town -
- Aug 17, 2011 -

COMME des GARCONS x HUSSEIN CHALAYAN AIRBORNE & MENU launch @ Church Gift Shop, Cape Town

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I just went to the African launch of COMME des GARCONS x HUSSEIN CHALAYAN AIRBORNE (you have to smell it, it’s on my  wish list) at CHURCH (12 Spin Street, City Centre, Cape Town). At the same time they launched magazine “MENU” with the 167 dishes in Cape Town. Guess what I’m doing tonight? Read.

Well done and high-fives to Peet Pienaar, Hannerie Visser and team, you guys rock!

Some pix Des took with his iPhone.

Peet Pienaar making some serious kick-ass orange-vodka cocktails.


This might interest you: What the President thinks about African design and Cape Town & my little piece on the CHURCH gift shop.

- Cape Town -
- Dec 1, 2010 -

CHURCH – a nonsense/style/design/cool/happy shop

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Oh, this is my favourite store for all the little cute and silly things one actually doesn’t need.

CHURCH – a nonsense/style/design/cool/happy shop
Peet Pienaar opened CHURCH that will surely have a lot of churchgoers

“I’m using art as an excuse to live a very interesting life – it allows you to be whoever you want to be, do whatever you want to do, go where ever you want to go. It’s like a free ticket“.

Okay, some facts in case you don’t know the guy. Peet Pienaar (born 29 August 1971) is a South African performance artist, and co-owner of design studio The President. He’s most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000. Peet Pienaar is also the editor and co-designer of Afro Magazine with its main aim to celebrate the outstanding creativity and designs of the African continent. He studied fine art at the University of Stellenbosch graduating in 1993.

Peet Pienaar is the priest of the CHURCH. Well, at least the brain behind it. The CHURCH is in Spin Street, next to lovely café Bread Milk and Honey. CHURCH, because it’s on Church Square. The shop is basically a piece of art. “It’s a concept store”, says Patrick who’s here usually every day to sell the stuff. The window is changing all the time due to monthly themes. Once the theme has been ‘wood’ and the wallpaper was cardboard which was painted like wood. For sale were wooden sunglasses, wooden lampshades, which are still to get. In December 2010, the theme is ‘picnic’. ‘Sweet’ I think and love the green crepe paper frazzles hanging down the ceiling (unfortunately not for sale, wanted to surprise my husband at home with a jungle-like looking house). Cute little metal-birds are for sale, garlands (I bought a couple), strawberry and candy-sticky tape, wall decorations, random magazines, notebooks etc. As mom would say: “Everything and nothing, but lovely.” And inspiring.

The store changes it’s theme, look and content every month, a good trigger to come back regularly. It looks crazy, colorful, childish. It looks cool. I went in and bought a couple of things noone needs but that make everyone happy. Do the same.

“Seek & ye shall find”

by Antonia Heil
CHURCH: 12 Spin Street | Cape Town | +27 (0) 21 462 6092
Opening Hours: weekdays 9am – 5pm, Saturday 9am – 1pm

… the edited version of my article (ha ha, not yet a ‘motherspeaker’) on capetownmagazine.com

FYI: What The President thinks about…

- art, Cape Town, Design, interior -
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