Welcome to Rossouw’s Restaurants web, the place for independent commentary on the South African restaurant scene. This website complements the printed Rossouw’s Restaurants guide, now in its seventh year. For both the printed guide and all reviews here, the principle is: reviews are conducted anonymously; and all meals are paid for. Naturally, you may not agree with all the views. You are welcome to comment on any blog. Simply follow the link below the entry. You are also welcome to send written reviews by clicking on the button on the right. Please note that not all restaurants that are reviewed in the printed guide appear on this site – nor are all on this site in the annual printed guide (which is a selection).
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Do you ever visit fast places – Chinese, Hawaiin … etc? I was conned to order something at Kuai @ the waterfront the other day. It was off!!!!!!!!
Fast food. Can’t say I never eat it, and in fact Kauai is often where I get a smoothie as a quick spacer til the next proper meal. But these places are all likely go give one indigestion from their nature even before you eat their food.
Never underestimate the potential joy of good street type junk! Plastik food is not the goal here, but food on the go. My pinnacle of the genre was a calamari kebab in the streets of Istanbul. Americanised, homogenised franchiseable schlock is the bad side of this coin.
I like the new format and, as usual, the guide. One criticism: some ratings seem to be inconsistent with what is written about the restaurant.
Fastfood!!!!
I saw an old woman knocking off 30 covers out of a wok attached to the back of her scooter in down-town Bangkok. Would you believe she even had a menu of 5 availible dishes? Of course, watching her cleaning her wok in between dishes was a right proper worry….but if you where brave enough, you got a great Pad-thai. And it was probably only about 5 bucks as well.