saturday at Rhubarb Room

13 Dec 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG recommends, Coffee Club, cape town, fashion, lifestyle, shopping, things to do, weekends, 2 Comments

You’d think a quiet morning decorating Christmas cookies, sipping lattes and browsing for gifts would leave one somewhat calm and zen-like on a Saturday. Not so. Instead my morning at Rhubarb Room was so inspiring that it sent me into a cookie-baking FRENZY which would only end very late on Saturday evening, and take up the entire day. Am not sure how it happened, but it did. Anyway it started very sedately. Some coffee. Trying on some clothes. Picking up most of my Christmas gifts. Touching the giant candy canes.

And then we got onto the cookies. RR are running a competition where you can win a R350 voucher if you decorate a Christmas cookie. It’s a lot of fun, we spent 2 hours doing it, and then the further frenzy… anyway found some gorgeous things for pressies, and for myself. Like this gorgeous long dress. And these espadrilles. Say it aloud… ‘espadrillllllllles’.

Rhubarb Room is on that road just above Buitengracht in the Cape Quarter. Lovely green grey building. Go check it out next time you want some coffee and snacks far from the maddeningly cool crowd up on Kloof. Take your lappie and catchup on some mails in an environment that feels like a welcoming, comfortable home. The owner is a lovely lady called Lauren and she is very friendly and will even decorate a cookie with you.