Italian Cuisine

From screen to plate … this restaurant brings Italy to the heart of Johannesburg

A new restaurant takes a chance by combining classic Italian with contemporary innovation

Italian grocery shop Super Sconto (Super Discount) on Louis Botha has a restaurant, but you would never know it from the front of the building.

Old mom-and-pop Italian eateries in Parow and Sea Point look as though they belong in the 1970s but the food isn’t half bad.

Folding tortellini is a tricky pasta craft, but this school of Italian cookery knows some crafty pasta tricks.

Junior Minister for Culture Ilaria Borletti Buitoni has chastised Italian chefs for trying too hard to be fashionable and copying the French.

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.

Italian cuisine is as varied as the names for pasta, but you can’t go wrong in an authentic trattoria.

There are almost as many recipes for tomato sauce as there are cooks.

An epic Italian feast, accompanied by a classic film, recalled a bygone era.

The art in this beautiful city evokes a world of decadence and indulgence. And so does the cuisine.

Tortellini d’Oro is arguably Johannesburg’s finest Italian restaurant.

The Cucina Paparazzi might have the name, but no restaurant in Cape Town evokes the wistful yearning for a little dolce far niente as La Perla.