Illovo has really grown up in the last few years. Wolves is the new kid on the block… or rather the new girl with pigtails on the swing in the park on the block. Filled with all manner of kitch art, toys and ceramic deer, the latest addition to the strip is a welcome breath of fresh candy-floss flavoured air. They don’t have a liquor licence (yet) so either bring your own or have some tea and a cupcake instead. The red velvet cake is the most sublime way to start your morning.

Wolves is also one of only two stockists in Joburg of must-have Australian fashion and design magazine Frankie.

4 Corlett Drive, Illovo. Parking right outside, or on the corner of North and Oxford (accessible from North Rd).

hello@wolves.co.za  011 447 2360

There’s a great second-hand industry in and around Joburg. This review of The Hospice Shop will become the first of many.  This is officially the mecca of thrift in that there are four different sections, some with books, some with more clothes, some with more ridiculously arbitrary junk.

I went in once looking for a table, and came out with a cupboard, a magazine holder, and a framed photograph of someone’s mother.

Find them on Louis Botha. Across the street from Radium Beer Hall.