Bonamia - Crawl #46 Revisited

The Coffee Crawl hit another milestone recently.  On October 16 fifteen Crawlers headed to Bonamia for Crawl #150!  Bonamia was the site of our Crawl #46 which also served as our first Christmas Crawl (see Dec. 2011 post).

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Bonamia is located at the Walker Drive Shopping Centre in the Kabega/Sherwood area.  This spacious shop seats a total of approximately 100 patrons with seating inside and outside.  Since our first visit the management has changed, with Justin and Theresia Muller now running the show. Unfortunately, we didn't get to meet the new owners, but day manager Melissa and barista Alida were most welcoming.

Meet the Manager
 Melissa

Thursday's Crawlers took advantage of Bonamia's extensive menu, and ordered a variety of breakfast items, muffins and cakes to go with their Sumatran coffee beverages.  The service, food and hospitality were all exceptional for our revisit and Crawl #150!  I stepped out of the box for the special occasion by ordering an Irish coffee for the second round (and it's not even St' Pat's Day yet).

My Irish  Coffee

Meet the Barista
Alida

A wonderful Sumatran cappuccino

Bonamia is open every day from 8 am until 10 pm.  Call 041 360 0635 for information on their daily breakfast and lunch specials or to make a reservation.  Also, check out Bonamia on FaceBook!

This Week's Crawlers
Arthur, Margaret, June, Dale, Gail, Nomusa, Nicolette,
Alieshea, Beryl, Stella, Leanne, Beth, Elize, Pierrette

Yum!

So, you'd think that after 150 gatherings the Crawlers would have long run out of things to talk about.......not so.  Crawlers Nomusa Nkomo, Dale Mitchell, June Nash, Leanne Waller, Beth Vieira, Elize Pretorius, Pierrette De Winne and her granddaughter Alieshea, Nicolette Hijmans, Gail Darne, Stella and Beryl Dawson, Margaret and Arthur Marshall and I spent a good portion of the morning discussing Crawlers Lee and Graham's wedding and June's amazing wedding cake.  I also caught everyone up on Crawlers Lou and Liz's running of their first marathon.  Also, since I had just returned from a trip to the States, I brought well wishes and hellos from Crawler friends in America.
And, as usual, at least part of the morning was spent conversing about what has become two of our default (but favorite) topics.....books and music.

All in all it was a phenomenal Crawl #150!  I honestly can't believe we've come this far  Thanks to everyone....Crawlers, coffee shop owners, baristas and waitrons, PECC blog readers...... for making it possible!

~Thank you to Melissa and Alida for making it a memorable Crawl #150.
~Belated happy birthday wishes to Stella Dawson - Oct 25

Until next week,

Ellen