If was that German artistic genius Joseph Beuys who put felt and animal fat into their correct places in the art supply pantheon. Following Joe’s cue, interior designer Ronel Jordaan makes wonderful things like stones and lampshades from felt. Was she perhaps responsible for the felted light fittings in Luke Dale-Roberts’s Test Kitchen restaurant in Woodstock?

A vertical cellar at the Test Kitchen

Anyway, they were clearly the inspiration for Lady Gaga’s novel entrance into the Grammy Awards on Sunday night inside a giant egg. Meanwhile, news just in from Browns in Rivonia is that U2 frontman Bono and the band were drinking Constantia Glen Sauvignon Blanc and Karl Lambour’s Bordeaux blends in the restaurant earlier this week.

We had the saddle last night and it was the finest Constantia red I’ve had this year. U2 should snap it up after their Greenpoint Stadium gig on Friday as judging by Luke’s footwear (below) the Barefoot wines of E&J Gallo will soon dominate the wine list.

Feet of the master chef