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31 MARCH 2021
THE VILLAGE NEWS
Pastries help the medicine go down E
milia Knight of The Gallery Café & Deli in High Street is a business owner who never rests on her laurels. Her café in the courtyard of Walker Bay Modern Art Gallery was hardly up and running (very smoothly indeed) when she decided to expand by opening the deli/bakery, and now she’s expanded again by creating a third leg to her business – a coffee shop called Black Medicine Coffee Dispensers.
like our coffee the same way, just as we don’t all like the same wine. Scottie and the barista, Simba offer many different brewing options and you might even end up with several unique blends that have your name on them – literally, as each customer’s coffee gets his/ her own prescription label with its own name. And of course, there is no better
Sulet Joubert and her sister, Nicole Verhoogt at the opening of Heartbeat Emporium in Onrus last week.
way to enjoy your coffee prescription than with one of Emilia’s many heavenly croissants, cruffins, doughnuts or other freshly-baked pastries. So start experimenting by visiting Hermanus’s first coffee clinic today! You’ll find Black Medicine Coffee Dispensers at 22 High Street, Hermanus. – Hedda Mittner
This is no ordinary coffee shop, believe you me. The unique concept behind the Black Medicine brand is that of a coffee pharmacy, where the coffee beans are ground and blended according to each customer’s prescription. It’s all rather fun: first you ‘consult’ the coffee pharmacist – Emilia’s son Scottie – who finds out all about your tastes, needs and preferences before ‘prescribing’ the best coffee medicine for you. Scottie even keeps a record for each client so that you can ‘renew’ your prescription at any time. Experimenting is part of the fun and it’s all about finding your personal favourite coffee bean, or your own client-tailored blend. Because let’s face it, we don’t all
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It’s been just over a year since Sulet Joubert sold her little eatery, the Heartbeat Café on the corner of Van Blommestein Street and Old Main Road in Onrus – and now she’s back with a delightful new venture in partnership with her sister, Nicole Verhoogt. Having kept the Heartbeat brand, the duo celebrated the opening of the Heartbeat Emporium last week, located just across the road from Sulet’s previous business, now called Coffee Corner. This time round it’s not an eatery she’s opened but a bakery, deli and lifestyle shop with all manner of handmade goods, from clothing and candles, to soap and skincare products, home décor and deli products. Emilia Knight and her son, Scottie, the ‘coffee pharmacist’ of Black Medicine Coffee Dispensers.
Heartbeat Emporium will also be selling
Sulet’s delicious breads, rusks and cakes, as well as her popular ready-made meals. And with Nicole being the other half of the Fisherman’s Cottage team, her husband, chef Anton Verhoogt will also be supplying the Heartbeat Emporium with the bistro-style meals that earned him a faithful following at The Barefoot Cook. I, for one, have never been this glad that I live a stone’s throw away in Onrus and I will definitely be popping in to the Heartbeat Emporium on a regular basis to stock up on goodies and meals for those days when I’m just too busy to cook. Heartbeat Emporium is located at 14 Van Blommestein Street (next to Pam Golding Properties), Onrus. – Hedda Mittner
