The Partners
Peter Goffe-Wood – Food Alchemist
Peter was born in London and has been a professional chef for the past 22 years. He was classically trained at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga Rocks and later returned to London. For eight years he worked for number of the capital’s top chefs in some of the West End’s award winning restaurants before being enticed back to South Africa to help open the La Couronne Hotel & Winery (now Mont Rochelle) in Franschhoek which was named as one of the fifty most exciting restaurants in the world by Conde Nast Traveller in 2000. Peter embarked on his own venture – PGW eat in 2001. Peter’s work as food alchemist, consultant and events coordinator has taken him to Bangkok, Hanoi and Sydney and to as far a field as Oman in the Persian Gulf.
He has also cooked for South African embassies and other clients in Paris, Budapest, Stuttgart, Istanbul, Zagreb, Moscow & London.
Peter has had a hand in the development of some of the Cape’s top restaurants as well as consulting for an international hotel group in Zimbabwe.
He launched the Kitchen Cowboys cooking workshops in 2003 in Cape Town. Peter was food editor for GQ magazine for eight years and has made freelance contributions to Food & Home magazine, Hospitality and Gourmet Traveller. He is a frequent contributor to Pick n Pay’s Fresh Living magazine as well a regular columnist for Men’s Health. He is author of Kitchen Cowboys and Blues Restaurant – the essence of Cape Town.
Iain Anderson – Lover of all things Hout Bay
Iain met Pete while walking on Chapmans Peak above Hout Bay and by the time they'd finished it was decided that Hout Bay needed a new Bistro - hence Wild Woods was born. The first call of duty was of course to find a name for this illicit love-child, and an evening was spent tasting some outrageous wines, playing guitar, and singing songs (a recording exists of this session and no amount of money will convince either Iain or Pete to make it public). Towards the end of the evening Pete insisted they play "Wild Woods" by Paul Weller of the The Jam fame...and hence the name Wild Woods Bistro was discovered (view YouTube video of Paul Weller here).
Iain spent many years confined to a desk deep within banks and investment companies in South Africa before leaving the tyranny of clocks and pursuing his passion for wine. He formed the company WineFilms with his wife Julie, which provides online films for South African Wine Farms, as well as producing their own range of wines.
Together they have one unbelievably cute daughter Zoë and have recently added a son Jack to the band....perhaps some night at Wild Woods they'll bring their guitars...
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