Posts Tagged ‘where to eat in Cape Town’
Savoy Cabbage is right on top of its game
Peruse the annual awards lists of the last 10 years and you’ll find many examples of restaurants that were once just the place to get to, dahlings, their chefs’ names thrown about as if the Gods had come down to save our palates. Then they slip down the lists until, in a year or two, they drop out of the top 10 and are often never heard of again.
Inside the Sun King’s Waterfront lair
Being at the Sun King’s newest venue whisked me right back to the ground-wetting for the Cape Sun Hotel aeons ago, when Anneline Kriel, then Sun Queen, stepped out of a limo in the rain and I nearly choked on a sliver of Parma ham.
Spring is in the air (and on the menu) at Societi
The superb chicken liver parfait with pineapple chutney is back, and also new is a beetroot carpaccio with a cross-pattern of mild horseradish. An inspired dish, gorgeous to look at and even better to eat.
Ginja moves in where Nova’s lights went out
Mike Bassett, one of Cape Town’s most brilliant chefs, has moved his top-ranking Ginja restaurant uptown to the site of the sadly short-lived Nova.