So... dis die storie, Melville is een van die coolste plekke in die wêreld!

Elke jaar praat TimeOut met duisende mense regoor die wêreld om die coolste woonbuurte van die wêreld te ontdek: die plekke wat die gees van die grootste stede op aarde verteenwoordig. Dit is die beste plekke om te eet en te kuier, kuns en kultuur, atmosfeer en persoonlikheid. Volgens TimeOut is Melville nommer 33! Melville is bekend vir hulle hip en fantastiese restaurante, koffie winkels, bars en die oulikste winkeltjies. Jy parkeer jou kar of Uber en kan ure daar rondloop en heerlik kuier.

Lees gerus wat Timeout geskryf het. " Melville is a joyous, everyone-knows-everyone kind of place. Just north of the city centre, this largely residential neighbourhood’s tree-fringed main road brims with coffee shops, restaurants and bars that spill on to the pavement. Antiques fan out in front of family-run stores. Artists hawk their creations on street corners. Very few parts of Johannesburg, in fact, are better for a casual mooch than the area’s commercial centrepiece, 27 Boxes – once Faan Smit Park, now a 51-store shopping complex comprising colourful stacked shipping containers. Since lockdown, neighbourhood staples (and our personal faves) Xai Xai and Nuno’s have merged to serve their distinctive Portuguese and Mozambican-inspired plates in a single, larger establishment. (Yes, it’s all still very delicious.) Kwoffee Shop, meanwhile, has been delivering some of the city’s best coffee. Yet for the clearest insight into this thoroughly pally, community-centric ’hood, it suffices to find out about the Viva Foundation’s Melville Food Parcel Program. Led by Melvillians Tanya and Sean Gardiner, this excellent initiative involved a network of local volunteers handing out 300,000 meals to the less well-off during the four months of ‘hard lockdown’. Such is Melville’s sociable and solidary spirit, if you lived here, you’d almost certainly want to get stuck in too.

—Iga Motylska