A cold-press juice bar on Albert Road, Woodstock. Fruit off the Epping market floor and into a bottle the same morning.
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Every crate comes off the market floor in Epping on a Monday and a Thursday morning, bought by one of us standing there at four with a torch rather than by an agent on a phone. The spanspek we drive out for ourselves, to a farm past Bonnievale, because a melon picked hard travels beautifully and tastes of nothing at all. Cold-pressed means the fruit is milled and then squeezed under a hydraulic plate. No blade, no heat, nothing warmed and so nothing cooked, which is why a bottle keeps about three days in a fridge instead of three months on a shelf. It is a slow way to make a drink and it wastes a great deal of fruit, and it is the only reason any of this tastes the way it does.
Whole spanspek pressed cold with cucumber and a fistful of mint, and nothing else goes into the bottle. 350ml. Drink it the day it is pressed, keep it in the fridge until you do, and give it a shake first because it separates.
R58.00Add to cart
Beetroot and carrot out of the Boland with enough fresh ginger in it to make you sit up straight. 350ml, deep magenta, earthy, and a good deal heavier going down than it looks on the shelf.
R58.00Add to cart
Cucumber, spinach, green apple and lemon pressed together with nothing added to soften the edge. 350ml. This is the one half the queue orders every morning without once looking up at the board.
R62.00Add to cart
Granadilla pulp folded through pressed pineapple with the seeds strained out. 350ml, sweet without a grain of sugar anywhere in it, and the first thing on the board to run out on a hot Saturday.
R55.00Add to cart
Four frozen sachets of blueberry, raspberry and banana, portioned for a blender at home. 4 x 180g. Add milk or water, blend for thirty seconds, done. They go in the freezer when you get home, not the fridge.
R145.00Add to cart
Baobab from Limpopo blended with banana and dates into four single-serve sachets. 4 x 180g. Tart, thick and creamy, and the thing to keep in the freezer for the mornings you leave in a hurry.
R135.00Add to cart
Nuts from White River soaked overnight and pressed with filtered water and a pinch of salt. 750ml. No gums, no oils and no sweetener, so it will separate in the bottle and wants a proper shake.
R89.00Add to cart
Thick-walled glass with a bamboo lid and a stainless straw, 500ml, heavy enough to live in a bag without chipping. Bring it back to the counter and we take five rand off whatever you order, every time.
R210.00Add to cartShop 3, 148 Albert Road, Woodstock. Six to three on weekdays, seven to one on Saturday, closed Sunday. Park in the yard behind the building, the gate off Bromwell Street stands open.
