My heart will go on

Writer Hedda Mittner

It’s been just over a year since Sulet Joubert sold her little eatery, the Heartbeat Café on the corner of Van Blommestein Street and Old Main Road in Onrus – and now she’s back with a delightful new venture in partnership with her sister, Nicole Verhoogt.

Having kept the Heartbeat brand, the duo celebrated the opening of the Heartbeat Emporium last week, located just across the road from Sulet’s previous business, now called Coffee Corner. This time round it’s not an eatery she’s opened but a bakery, deli and lifestyle shop with all manner of handmade goods, from clothing and candles, to soap and skincare products, home décor and deli products.

Heartbeat Emporium will also be selling Sulet’s delicious breads, rusks and cakes, as well as her popular ready-made meals. And with Nicole being the other half of the Fisherman’s Cottage team, her husband, chef Anton Verhoogt will also be supplying the Heartbeat Emporium with the bistro-style meals that earned him a faithful following at The Barefoot Cook.

I, for one, have never been this glad that I live a stone’s throw away in Onrus and I will definitely be popping in to the Heartbeat Emporium on a regular basis to stock up on goodies and meals for those days when I’m just too busy to cook.

Heartbeat Emporium is located at 14 Van Blommestein Street (next to Pam Golding Properties), Onrus.

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