Megaplex Newsletter 2015 August: Shopping in Sandton

Shopping in Sandton – August 2015

Welcome to Megaplex's monthly newsletter alerting the up-market shopper to the new and interesting in Sandton and Bryanston.   Please feel free to support our advertisers!  To subscribe, see our subscription page.

Contents:
Welcome ~ New Shops
Restaurant Review ~ Closed
Green Tip ~ The Checkout

Practical Effective Self-Defence

KRAV MAGA Instructors:
Mike & Walter
SMS or phone 084 211 8888

Email: michael.kravmaga@gmail.com

Above Car Service City,
off Witkoppen Rd. Paulshof,
near Cambridge Crossing.

Links to Other Pages:
Megaplex Home – Overview of Shops, Facilities, and Accommodation in Northern Sandton.

Shopping Centres in Sunninghill:
The Square
Sunninghill Village
Sunhill Shopping Centre
Chilli Lane Shopping Centre
The Core

We are looking for full-time and part-time staff with Hairdressing college qualifications to join our Sunninghill team of hairstylists. If you are stable, creative, and committed, send your CV to faydallas@vodamail.co.za.

You will be contacted if your CV is acceptable.

Shopping Centres in and near Bryanston:
Cramerview Village
Nicolway Shopping Centre
Coachman's Crossing
Grosvenor Crossing
Hobart Grove Centre
Bryanston Shopping Centre
Riverside Shopping Centre
Hurlingham Pick 'n Pay Centre
Bryanpark Shopping Centre

Shopping Centres in the Woodmead area:
Wendywood Centre
Woodmead Value Mart
Woodmead Super Value Centre
Woodmead Commercial Park
Woodmead Retail Park
Woodmead Square
Dunwoody Centre
Kelvin Village
The Bridge, Buccleuch
Other Shops and Shopping in Woodmead

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Shopping Centres in Central Sandton:
Atholl Square
Grayston Shopping Centre

Shopping in and around Rivonia:
Rivonia Central
Rivonia Village Centre
Rivonia Junction
Mutual Mews
Early Dawn Mall
Shops in Central Rivonia
Shops in Northern Rivonia
Cambridge Crossing
Petervale Shopping Centre

Shopping Centres in
Greater Morningside:

Morningside Shopping Centre
The Wedge, Morningside
Morning Glen Mall
90 Degrees on Rivonia
Morning View
Benmore Gardens
Shops in the Morningside Area

Speak Well at Your Board Meeting!

Transformers Toastmasters meets 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at Morningside Country Club, de la Rey Road, at 18:45.  Aspiring speakers are welcome!  Contact Judith Taylor on 082 389 3481 or speak@transformers.org.za

Restaurants:
Restaurants in Rivonia,
Codfather Village of Restaurants,
Restaurant reviews for Rivonia
Morningside Restaurant reviews

Other Places of Interest:
Sandspruit Hiking Trail,
Ernest Ullmann Park Recreation Centre,
Montrose Nursery Garden Centre and Gia's Coffee Shop

Pizza Perfect / Burger Perfect - Upper Level, Morning Glen Mall

The "Perfect" place for salads, subs, pasta, pizza, burgers, chips, soft drinks. Open 10:00-21:00 every day. Free delivery of orders R60 and up within 3 km. Nick: 011 656-0652, e-mail

Welcome to Cramerview Village:

Megaplex's coverage of useful information on shopping centres in Sandton and Bryanston continues to expand.  This month we added Cramerview Village. This is a neighbourhood shopping centre in Main Road, Bryanston, a block north of Sandton Clinic (Mediclinic Sandton), close to the Free Market Foundation.  The centre has a Total filling station, a mix of shops including a 7-11 supermarket, a pub and its bottle store, and several restaurants.

The restaurants include Fisherman's Kitchen (offering freshly prepared seafood including that well-known seabird: chicken) and Amici Pizzeria for typical Italian food. French Corner serves breakfasts, light meals, coffee, and pastries. The delightfully-named Tealiscious is a tea garden in the adjacent passage. Barrels & Bottles is the Pub and Grill. Katjushas Elegant Lounge Cocktail Bar & Restaurant is located on the back parking lot.

Other useful services include a pool shop, picture framing, nail bar, skin treatments, hairdressers, men's barber, fruit shop, florist and gifts, stationery and copy shop, travel agent, ballet school, maths and science tuition, ATMs, tattoos, dentists and oral hygienist, optometrist, and an appliance repair service.

Odd Jobs

Archaeologists excavating an ancient tomb in Egypt have discovered a mummy covered in chocolate, wafer, and hazelnuts.

They think it must be Pharaoh Rocher.
 

NOW OPEN at 16 Waterval Crescent, Woodmead!

Over 8000 items to choose from: Toys, gifts, stationery, kitchenware, houseware, plasticware, multimedia, car sound and much more! Open Mon-Fri: 09:00-17:00 (Fri closed 12:00-14:00), Sat: 9:00-17:00, Sun: 10:00 - 14:00. Tel: 011 656 6068, email: saIes@osmans.co.za Group web site

New on the Block, Movers and Shakers  Back to top

Commercial Fats-Oil-and-Grease Trap Cleaning and Installation

Commercial kitchens, restaurants, hospitals, clinics, offices, and residential complexes! Do you have a grease trap as required by the Municipal by-laws? Is your grease trap being maintained regularly?  We do installation, maintenance & cleaning. email: info@greasetrapcleaning.co.za, call Fabien 072 445 4560 / 087 802 6324. Web.

Restaurant Review by Judith Back to top

*** The Green Peppercorn, Morningside Shopping Centre

The menus have now been pasted into books - sad loss of the opening to the story, but a useful resource if the service is slow!  We dropped in for lunch and made some mistakes.  We should have asked for the beverage menu as the ordered Ceylon tea was indeed Ceylon but an exotic black tea and not the one expected.  The glass of red wine, however, was more than acceptable.

I ordered the Bone Marrow and had to go through exactly what I didn't want with it, so ended up with salsa.  The marrow was very good indeed and gloriously messy.  It should have been served with a finger bowl!

The cheddar omelette was a big disappointment.  Service by Llyod (is his name spelt right on the till slip?) was good.  I did ask about the restaurant being more Banting friendly and was told that their attempt was a complete failure.  The fact that the steak was being served with polenta may be the reason.  I did point out that this is not a Banting choice.

It's a pity.  This restaurant used to be so good.

Contact Details for The Green Peppercorn.

Funny Language, English...

Sign seen by Judith in a municipal toilet: "Wash your hands before eating and feeding children"

Surely you feed them first and then eat them? But seriously, don't people look at what they are writing?

Passed On:  Back to top

Visit Versus Paint Specialists for Free Paint Advice

Shop 14, Morning Glen Mall, inside Sensational Blinds & Flooring, Lower Level next to the escalators.
Free colour consultations and paint advice (by appointment only): Call 011 885 3136.

Enjoy It While You've Got It

Julius decided to try a new Psychiatrist, who asked: "Do any of your family suffer from mental illness?"
"No, they all seem to enjoy it."
 

Green Tip:   Back to top

Most of the litter that people drop in the street, or thoughtlessly toss out of cars, gets washed into the stormwater drains and thence into our rivers like the Braamfontein Spruit and the Sandspruit.  There it makes the banks unsightly and, if nobody picks it up, it washes down into the lake of Hartbeespoort Dam. Eventually it may end up in the sea, where vast areas are now covered in floating human-made pollution.

What is so difficult about not littering? Just keep your rubbish until you get home or find a rubbish bin, then put it in the bin. If you see others littering, educate them.  This is your country and your planet: Treat it as your home and look after it!

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Overheard at the Checkout:

"I've just found out that my boyfriend is cheating on me!"

"Which one?"

Your name in print!  Would you like to contribute a shop- or restaurant review, a less obscure joke, or something else for this Newsletter?  Please e-mail us.  You will get full credit (unless you want anonymity).  Reach 6416 shoppers and shop-owners: Advertise in this newsletter!  Editor: Rick Raubenheimer.


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