Tucked away in the hills of the Helderberg, the new Idiom restaurant and wine tasting centre feels like an escape to another world.
The portions may be on the small side, but the food bar is fast becoming the go-to spot in Jo’burg’s cultural heartland, writes Milisuthando Bongela.
Parktown North now offers an exciting culinary refuge from the fight or flight of city living at the Pudding Shop, writes Lisa Johnston.
In cool Cape Town ‘upscaling’ means ‘downmarket’, and dives and dude food rake in the customers.
A new cook book is packed with nourishing Jewish, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean recipes.
In the game of food, you win when you dine on 21 courses at the best restaurant in the world.
As a marketing exercise for the restaurant business, I suppose "the world’s 50 best" is to be welcomed.
Although they might complain about Michelin, chefs at least understand the reasons why a restaurant is given its stars, even if they don’t agree.
Chef Liam Tomlin is avowedly in favour of using only the best seasonal ingredients and allowing them to speak for themselves.
There seems to be something inherently sad attached to piano bars.
While steakhouses tend to be the preserve of large franchises, a few independent treasures remain.
You won’t find a vestige of egg, a piece of cheese or a drop of milk or honey at the Greenside Café.
A Cape Town venture has taken the restaurant and retail business to a whole new level.
Parreirinha in La Rochelle is a warren of dining rooms. The building, in a suburban street deep in Johannesburg’s south, used to be a police station.
Service with a smile is the trademark of a camp burger joint that also serves good food.
Babel is surrounded by an enormous edible garden, which offers its bounty to the beautiful menu.
The only thing that might leave a bad taste in your mouth at the Pot Luck Club is the service.
Even if you’re not eating, the coffee is something to behold.
Gangnam BBQ’s Korean food is all kinds of delicious, but what the TVs are all about we really couldn’t say.
No foodstuff has been more linked to health geeks than yoghurt.
It was love at first bite — the delicate, shell-shaped, citrusy sponge melted in my mouth and I knew why Proust had made the madeleine famous.
A new menu is risky for an institution dedicated to keeping up the ‘classics’.
Dim sum, wine, coffee … and your unmentionables? A classy laundrette is winning hearts in Cape Town.
So Yum often seems full, even in the middle of the afternoon.
Taken together, fish and chips is a persuasive combination, writes Brent Meersman.
There’s an odd thing that happens outside Rosebank Fire Station on Tuesdays. At noon, a crowd forms, a little like a flash mob, in search of lunch.
The king of reincarnation has taken another iconic restaurant under his wing — and jazzed it up.
What really makes Hare Krishna cooking special is the state of mind of the movement’s cooks.
Cyrildene has long been the real home of Chinese cuisine in Johannesburg, ever since the migration from the “bottom” of Commissioner Street.
Al fresco eating can be classy and fun — especially when it’s done in style in a cool indigenous forest.
The tiny restaurant that looks out on to a parking lot in Jo’burg is probably the closest thing we have to Yotam Ottolenghi’s restaurants in London.
Although the gastro pub the Foundry may have beaten the Griffin to the punch by just a few months, the latecomer has better food.