The A-Listers

SOCIALS | Big deals dine out on the small stuff in Fourways

13 May 2018 - 00:00 By craig jacobs

Seems tapas has usurped sushi in the trendy stakes, given that the Spanish-inspired bite-sized snacks are also prominent in my second event for the week.
I found myself further up north of Joburg in Fourways to sample the new cocktail and tapas menu at the Carnelian restaurant in the Design Quarter shopping centre.
Guests include Ayanda Thabethe, who has brought along her makeup-artist sister, Mimi, and A-Lister It Girl Lerato Kganyago, who is working on something big after Live Amp but is mum about the details. The guests sample arancini balls, braised oxtail and cheese croquettes, and smoked salmon fishcakes while sipping cocktails and wines.
I ask Ayanda where her other half, musician Mthoko "Dash" Mkhathini, is and the Top Billing presenter tells me he's holed up in the studio, working on his first solo effort without his group, Dreamteam.
Arriving from dinner downstairs at another restaurant is Iman Rappetti, all glammed up in a long printed gown bought in New York.
The broadcaster's memoir, Becoming Iman, which charts her colourful life, including a two-year stint as a devout Muslim in Iran, is set to be released next week and is bound to be a fascinating read.
"I'm so proud of you," says Azania Mosaka, Iman's former Power98.7 colleague about the book.
Also sampling the tapas are former Generations actor Mutodi Neshehe, designer Paledi Segapo and those acting brothers, SK and Abdul Khoza...

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