{"id":1152,"date":"2008-12-06T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/art-and-roots\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T06:40:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:40:36","slug":"art-and-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/06\/art-and-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts and Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I Love My Shop with Roots Restaurant and Gallery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nomfundo Xulu<\/td>\nPublished:<\/font>Dec 04, 2008<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Where is the restaurant?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in central Western Jabavu, Soweto, across the road from the famous Morris Isaacson High School.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What kind of place is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"roots.png\" I wanted to create a place where people can reflect on where they come from and where artists, poets and musicians can showcase their work. So Roots Restaurant and Gallery, aka Roots, is just that \u2014 a restaurant and a gallery.<\/p>\n

How long have you been in the art and food industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I studied art and have been involved in the industry for the past five years, and I\u2019ve been working with food for two years now.<\/p>\n

Tell us the story behind the name of the restaurant.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The name is a symbol of what we are about as township people. We are going back to the importance, the roots, of township life, which is about arts, music and good food.<\/p>\n

When did Roots open?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

We planted our roots on December 12 last year.<\/p>\n

What were you doing before that?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have a day job in advertising, but I go to Roots every day after work and at weekends.<\/p>\n

What plans do you have for Roots?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like it to be a franchise, but I do not want to go to the suburbs \u2014 I would like Roots to be strictly a township thing. So next up are Guguletu and Alexandra.<\/p>\n

<\/a>What type of food do you serve?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The food … where does one begin? It smells of early mornings, it reminds one of family, friends and the orchestra of street life , where kids play easy, like day will never be night. We offer township cuisine with interesting model C-type sticky wings, ivy league steak and Sunday-lunch chicken stew.<\/p>\n

Whose art do you display?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artwork is amazing and our current exhibition is by Mongezi Gum, an artist who really reflects the township vibe. There are more artists coming up soon.<\/p>\n

What kind of customers do you attract?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roots has visits from a number of tourists, artists and people who miss that homely ambience.<\/p>\n

Describe your restaurant in one word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What type of music do you play?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The music ranges from township jazz to lounge.<\/p>\n

And your decor?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Classic township decor, which includes those velvet couches our parents used to cover with transparent seat covers, and the classic photograph of a mother and child caressing, which every township house used to have in the lounge.<\/p>\n

[ click to read at the The Times SA<\/a> ]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa I Love My Shop with Roots Restaurant and Gallery Nomfundo Xulu Published:Dec 04, 2008 Where is the restaurant?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s in central Western Jabavu, Soweto, across the road from the famous Morris Isaacson High School.\u00a0 What kind of place is it? I wanted to create a place where people can reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}