I discovered the few months old Devil's Acre, the newest Speak Easy to hit the North Beach hood. I ogled at drinks with golden pixie dust and another one with pineapple syrup good for palette cleansing. The trick of the trade here is to find their downstairs entrance since most people hang at their upstairs bar, which tends to get crowded, unknowingly. Drink up on their bourbon, rum or gin-based libations.

After learning about what an authentic bobotie pie is during my trip to Capetown, I couldn't order Amawele's bobotie pie because they used ground beef instead of kudu game meat (duh, there is no kudu in the US!). So I ended up with a humongous and very filling chicken curry with potatoes swimming on a large lump of bread- a South African dish called bunny chow.