No sport event, arts festival, theme park, carnival, or really any gathering of the public in South Africa is complete without the boerewors roll.
Long popular in South Africa, in the past few years burgers seem to be having an African Renaissance of sorts.
For well-known South African food writers and restauranteurs, 2012 was a good year for food.
With Cape Town chef David Higgs’s new restaurant at the Saxon, 500, Jo’burg food just got exquisite.
An unpretentious new cafe with retro decor doffs its hard hat to Johannesburg’s gold rush history.
It is 6pm on a Saturday. Laurent Deslandes, a chef, and his wife Cyrillia, a restaurateur, look frazzled but cheerful. Clearly they’re old troopers.
Croft & Co made its name selling expensive toys for boys, but now also boasts a stylish eatery.
A culinary gem has joined Jozi’s foodie neighbourhood on 4th Avenue in Parkhurst.
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Italian cuisine is as varied as the names for pasta, but you can’t go wrong in an authentic trattoria.
Not every meal at a restaurant needs to be an occasion.
The estate has added to its variety of offerings with an audio tour that connects it with its painful past.
The Spier ‘Secret’ Festival is trading on the current obsession to experience something others can’t.
Although not a hub for expats in the way Toronto, Perth, Auckland, and London are, the Big Apple has acquired several South African restaurants.
Dinner at the Tasting Room is R2300 before the tip. Was a four-hour dinner at this restaurant in Le Quartier Franais in Franschhoek worth it?
Coffee is one of Africa’s great gifts to the world. Brent Meersman rounds up the best local offerings.
The hotel buffet is in its own class. Once there, some breakfast patrons hardly bother with order. Everything is piled on one plate.
These days the first question you ask a waiter is no longer "May I see the wine list?", but "What is the password, please?"
Chef Chantel Dartnall does not follow recipes — her imaginative creations are sublime improvisations.
A younger, more vital Alphen boutique hotel emerged after extensive facelift.
Tickets, Ferran and Albert Adria’s Barcelona tapas bar, is supremely hard to get into, but is well worth the wait.
If you can stand the heat, get into some local kitchens that specialise in making searing salsas.
A Cape Town deli boasts recipes fit for a first lady and for the rest of us.
Cape Town has another man linked to the Nobel Peace Prize in its midst — coffee shop owner Muhammed Lameen Abdul-Malik.
A Boland wine farm’s workers are partaking of the harvest — and not through the dop system.
Melville’s Service Station serves the kind of good, fresh food you would find in the home of, say, Nigella Lawson or Donna Hay.
John Nash, from Virginia in the USA, is at the helm of one of the best restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. <b>Matthew Burbidge</b> explores the menu.
When it comes to new trendy eateries, it is as if Cape Town inner city almost wilfully ignores the economic reality of the times.
It’s a pity the quality of the dining experience often doesn’t match the setting.
There is, of course, more to Dutch cookery than the pancakes, vetkoek and melktert they gave us.
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/ 20 December 2011
The freshest local seasonal ingredients served with gracious and knowledgeable efficiency: these are the hallmarks of the Japanese dining experience.
Ethiopian restaurants are enriching South African food culture.
Besides unearthing great finds, you can get a visual preview of what is on the menu.