Recent Comments
- Mark on The Butcher Shop and Grill, Sandton Square: The Butcher Shop and Grill is blatantly aimed at tourists. Steaks and wine are overpriced. The Grill House in the...
- Rory on The Butcher Shop and Grill, Sandton Square: In Joburg over this last weekend so we took the Gautrain to Sandton (yes its novel for us Capetonians) and had lunch...
- JPR on Soho, De Waterkant, Green Point: This is indeed a great spot, and the dim sum highly recommended. A Chinese friend also told me the “real”...
- Neels on The Butcher Shop and Grill, Sandton Square: Totaly ripped off @ R480.00 for prawn starter at the childrens table – all starters @ R 40 -R70 on menu with...
- Ekes on Soho, De Waterkant, Green Point: True about Chinese food. Hesheng in Sea Point is an exception, with some fresh and intense dishes such as a...
- JPR on Soho, De Waterkant, Green Point: Great question. Thai cuisine in CT has not built on the great early days of Wang Thai. I like Kitima for the vibe,...
- Ekes on Soho, De Waterkant, Green Point: Why is there so much mediocre Thai food in Cape Town? Serious question. I’ve tried several restaurants and...
- Caroline on L’Aperitivo, Cape Town: Fantastic place. The pasta sauses are the best I have ever had outside of Italy.
- Clare McKeon on Zenzero, Camps Bay: It is extraordinary just how bad the food and service actually is at Zenzero, and it seems to be just as bad at the...
- Dirk on The Big Easy, Stellenbosch: On Tuesday 24 August 2010 we went for a business lunch. The venue and service was fine. Three of us ordered the...
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Some latest tweets...
- RT @ChristianEedes You need to check out Pierneef a La Motte. Thought it was pretty good. -- So are they now officially open? 1 day ago
- Sometimes I eat in places so that you do not have to... Leaf, ex Portofino, ex Showroom is one of those. Update tomorrow... 2 days ago
- On much American espresso as little more than a "fascinating misuse of the machine": http://bit.ly/btbe1x Echoes of SA? 1 week ago
- Big Easy in Stellenbosch really has seen an improvement. Except in service, which is friendly but unfocused. 1 week ago
- De Oude Bank Bakkerij wears it's debt to Ile de Pain very prominently. Let's see if the bread is as imitative... 1 week ago
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Openings and closings, changes and rearranges
The guide aims to be as comprehensive and accurate as possible. However, restaurants are a moving target, and opening times change, menus change, sometimes the whole establishment changes – or disappears. Should you have relevant information on openings, closings or changes, we would like to know. E-mail us.
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The editor, Jean-Pierre Rossouw, has been a restaurant reviewer for The Mail & Guardian as well as Food and Wine Editor for Condé Nast House and Garden. He is also the wine writer for the Cape Times, Best Life and restaurant reviewer for Wine magazine. Since starting Rossouw’s Restaurants in 2004, it has grown to become a top ten best-seller at leading bookstores like Exclusive Books and Wordsworths and is now the leading independent restaurant guide.