Restaurants and businesses · 1999 to 2021
Blue Mango
Brooklyn, Pretoria
One of the restaurants and food businesses I opened, owned, developed and operated. Experience across the group included ownership, executive culinary leadership, concept development, menu development and operational consultancy.
This chapter is drawn from my own records, photographs and memories. It will grow here as the material is found.
The room
Full, loud and alive.
The photographs are wonderfully unpolished. Packed floors, drinks raised to the camera, the DJ booth, friends leaning into frame and the room working at full volume.
The old artwork
Where Womango Mango.
The graphics belong in the archive too. They carry the humour and colour of the place just as much as the photographs of the room do.
The people
The happy part of the archive.
Friends, staff, regulars and passing faces. Different nights, same feeling: people wanted to be there.
Another mark from the archive
Blue Mango, Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge.
One more piece of the original identity, kept here alongside the nights it belonged to.
A good archive should still feel alive.
Blue Mango will keep growing here as more photographs, menus, artwork and memories are found.