You came for one puff of shisha.

2 hours later, you're deep in a debate over pineapple on pizza, sipping cocktails with a stranger named Kamo, and eyeing your second 2-for-1 pie.

That's the vortex effect, it pulls you in and doesn’t let go.

✅ What Keeps Us Coming Back

Pizzas worth writing home about. Shisha that hits smooth. And a crew of DJs and comics who make Mondays and Tuesdays feel like Fridays.

🧨 Weekly Specials:

– Mondays = 2-for-1 pizzas

– Tuesday = Half-Price Smash Burgers (including the wild new ones)

– Sundays & Wednesdays = R5 buffalo wings

– Comedy Tuesdays, DJs every weekend, plus three separate hangout zones (including a neon-lit Red Room and outdoor beer garden)

👉 Enter the Vortex Here

📲 Click to Save Their Number

and tell ’em CPT Brew sent you

522 Test caps. 5 legends. 1 friendly game. Sam Cane and Shannon Frizell (All Blacks’ revenge squad) vs. SA’s finest.

Rassie Erasmus calls it "prep." We call it "grudges with extra tackles."

✔️ Why We’re Betting on Brawls:

Watch for Conor Murray’s ‘accidental’ elbow. Tickets via Ticketmaster (or your cousin’s connections).

Combined age: 147. Combined intensity: Chernobyl.

→ Read the rugby roast

City’s spending millions to upgrade... parking lots. Eddie Andrews swears it’s "climate-resilient." Locals swear it’s "where sandcastles go to die."

✔️ Why We’re Side-Eyeing:

New seawall panels! Realigned pipes! ...Wait, is that just fancy talk for ‘R100m pothole fix’?

→ Gawk at the gravel

NSRI towed a headless, tailless whale into the harbour. Guts spilling = shark buffet. Authorities: "Don’t swim!" Surfers: "But the waves are fiiire..."

✔️ Why We’re Respecting Nature’s Buffet:

Ocean food chains: fascinating yet terrifying. Stick to land-based Gatsbys this week.

Us: Watch from the harbour wall. Extra peri-peri = extra safety.

→ Beware the deep

A 16-year-old hiker took an "adventurous detour" off India Venster. Ended up needing WSAR’s heroics from a sketchy ledge. Moral? Mountains > ego.

✔️ Why We’re Saluting WSAR:

Rule #1: If your ‘path’ requires a helicopter, it’s not a trail – it’s a cry for help.

Us: "Rather debate actual rugby tactics at Vortex. Fewer cliffs, more chips."

→ Respect the climb

Where bean worship meets aesthetic obsession

Two pizzerias. One coastal town. No surrender.

Kloof Street’s sugar sanctum.

✔️ Why we’re pre-diabetic:

Belgian waffles + rolled ice cream + bubble tea = breakfast of champions (or hangover casualties).

Vibe: "Where dentists go to have nightmares."

📍 Shop 6, Kloof Street | Open till 11pm (poor decisions welcome)

👉 Get infront of 10,000+ locals (trust it’s affordable)

🍷 Watershed Trio LIVE at Die Boer

Smooth vocals and wine flowing. It’s date night or cry-alone night — no judgment.

→ Die Boer, Durbanville – 6PM

🎤 Robbie Wessels Live One man, one mic, and all the Bobjan energy. Bring your boots and maybe a shot of Klipdrift.

→ HEROES Brackenfell – 8:30PM

🎭 Singles Masquerade Party

Over 35? Single? Into cocktails and chaos? This rooftop masked mixer at Hotel Sky is built for mysterious flirts and mingling.

→ Hotel Sky – 6:30PM | [R290–R390]

🎤 Forever Punk, Forever Free

Cape Town gets loud. Screamo, spikes, skate shoes, the works. Don’t bring your mom.

→ District – 7PM

🕯️ Candlelight Concert: Coldplay on Strings

“Fix You” under flickering flames? Emotional damage incoming.

→ Star Theatre, District Six – 6:30PM & 8:30PM

🌞 Winter Solstice: Greet the Sun

Join the druids (or just the nature lovers) and hike to Muizenberg’s ancient dolmen for a sunrise reset.

→ Boyes Drive – 6:30AM

🎻 Tygerberg Children’s Choir Gala

South Africa’s finest young voices in one breathtaking show. Your gran and your goth friend will cry.

→ ENDLER, Stellenbosch – 4PM

🎞 Kom Winter Film Fest

Blankets, indie films, local stories. It’s cozy cinema in a converted nature centre.

→ Soetwater Enviro Centre – 6PM

🎶 Everybody Loves Sundays ft. Gipsy Rabbit

Laid-back, acoustic vibes in a leafy garden. No shoes required.

→ Gypsy Rabbit – 1PM

🎤 Elandré Live @ Kapstadt Brauhaus Blouberg

Smooth vocals, salty sea breeze, cold beer. A perfect Monday mix.

→ Kapstadt Brauhaus, Blouberg – 7:30PM

🎸 Musical Mondays JUNE

Local talent take over Outlore Base for a chilled Monday jam session. BYO vibes.

→ The Outlore Base – 7:30PM

☕ Coffee Painting Workshop

Paint with espresso. Smell the creativity. Accidentally sip your brush water.

→ Goldfish Café – 9:30AM

🎭 Nik Rabinowitz @ Cafe Roux

Come for the punchlines, stay for the midlife crisis. Top-tier comedy.

→ Cafe Roux – 2AM (yup, wild timing)

🧵 Granny Square Crochet Workshop

Not just for grannies. Make something warm, spill tea, gossip about yarn.

→ Goldfish Café – 5:30PM

🎤 Kultura-fees: Early B + DJ Justin Vega

Afrikaans rhymes and campus party chaos. Pull up in Durbanville.

→ Curro High School – 7PM

🎶 Demi Lee Moore Live

One of SA’s biggest country-pop stars — emotions, vocals, maybe line dancing.

→ HEROES Brackenfell – 8:30PM

💃 A Tribute to ABBA @ Cape Point Vineyards

Dancing Queens unite. Sunset views, wine in hand, and every ABBA banger you forgot you loved.

→ Cape Point Vineyards – 6PM

🥊 Kickboxing for Wellness

Work stress? Punch it in the face (gently, of course).

→ Church House – 6PM

🎻 Winter Symphonies at City Hall

Coats, violins, goosebumps. A classy escape from the cold.

→ Cape Town City Hall – 7:30PM

🥬 Kimchi-Making Workshop

Learn how to ferment like a Korean grandma. Smelly, spicy, addictive.

→ Sepial’s Kitchen – 6PM

🍣 Japanese-Inspired Pairing Dinner

Fine dining, fishy elegance, and very quiet "mmm"s around the table.

→ Lourensford Wine Estate – 8PM

Every June, Hermanus adds new public sculptures along the coast — and this year’s collection is already stirring emotions.

This one, called Water, stands at the edge of the sea like a siren frozen mid-spin.

🗣️ Local takes:

They’ll be up until June next year — so take a drive, soak in the sea air, and go find your favourite piece.

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Just reply to this email and show us your lens game.