Rossouws Restaurants

Many of my Jozi friends have expressed a concern when we make reservations: “Have you checked about load shedding?” With our national electricity supplier, Eskom, failing to provide a consistent supply, the country is undergoing cyclical black-outs that last around two hours and have wrecked many a restaurant visit. For the first time, I experienced this phenomenon this morning. People are talking about Tasha’s, in the Atholl Mall on Katherine Street, so I thought I’d slip in for breakfast on a day that I plan to have two lunches and dinner. I arrived hungry, and the manager was quick to tell me: “Order immediately – the power’s going off at 10.” It was two minutes to ten. Would a spot in Cape Town have the sack to pull an order off and to do it with the organisation that saw me with a flat white and a poached egg Florentine and the electronic bill, all done very well, with the power down five minutes after I sat down?