Category Archives: Restaurants Gauteng
Troyeville Hotel, Troyeville
The Flamingo is the “upscale” eatery here at this legendary hotel, but most of the deals go down in the bar with its sports theme or in the “sun” room with its balcony and glimpses of Ellis Park Stadium from the smokers’ balcony (“due to recent Health Dept interventions this restaurant is now non-smoking” ). The [...]
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A Churrasqueira, Rosettenville
One of the classics of Portuguese eating, this spot keeps on trucking, and curiously also looking younger all the time. The sign upstairs in the smoking section, with it’s sports bar personality, says a great deal about the management: ‘no feet on tables, no sleeping on the couches’. This is a working-class area after all.
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Nonna Mia, Senderwood
It’s no surprise that there are a few extensions of this original “kitchen” (the others being Nonna Mia “Pronto’s” in Bedfordview and Illovo). This modern style of Italian is something that Joburg does very well indeed. Dispense with the tat of the traditional trattoria and bring in modern cafe chairs, re-work the room with bold [...]
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Gourmet Garage, Sandton
Pop culture meets a comic strip menu (straight from ‘Archie’) at this fun diner decked to look like a US filling station. It’s usefully in the heart of Sandton and on my queries considered by many to be the best burger joint in Joburg… It’s a designer burger spot: lamb, ostrich, and the classic beef [...]
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Koi, Sandton
This seafood and Asian spot is typically buzzing, popular with a post work office crowd, the hip music and fashionable fittings like blonde wood, mosaics, coloured clustered lights (creating a pleasant low light) wicker chairs, and packed stone all conspire to create a cool ‘city-chic’ vibe. Add to this the obvious branding for fashion products [...]
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Fish & Wine Co., Design Quarter, Fourways
Spilling onto the piazza as do all the restaurants here, this seafood specialist is bright and cheerfully alluring in its green accents plus dark and light wood in modern bistro style, though tellingly it is already looking worn and a touch jaded. Like a franchise that is not getting spruced, and it all lacks zing [...]
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Polpetta, Morningside
After one of our dinner party got stuck in the loo’s outside this restaurant, I began to think any restaurant has to be truly worth its salt if it is to be featured in the guide, having no facilities. There’s a real slip in the quality of a meal when you have to leave a [...]
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Pronto, Craighall Park
A brisk, modern Italian shorn of the traditional symbols of “trattoria” and more like a casual café. The service staff also move about briskly and the place hums with the coffee set, plus those looking for a square meal from the long and pretty diverse menu. Pizzas are thin-base and well-judged, pastas are cooked just [...]
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Chez Girard, Morningside, Sandton
What a lovely warm and welcoming space – a wood-fire greets you as you arrive on a winter’s night, the staff welcoming too, and Mr Girard on the floor looking after regulars and checking up on newcomers. Unusually located, this is a “house” inside the grounds of a commercial hotel, this restaurant has a linked [...]
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Sale e Pepe da Giovanni, Morningside