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Published on: 01 Sep 08

Platine

Platine offers a vision of the truly cosmopolitan city that Cape Town could be – not to mention a dining experience that you’d pay a good deal more for anywhere else in the world. Jean-Pierre Rossouw reports.
 
Published on: 01 Sep 08

Umami - the fifth taste

In its menu, Umami is the more ambitious of the two. Owner Toerie van der Merwe says he started the place because he was tired of leaving town if he wanted something classy to eat.
 
Published on: 28 Aug 08

Faff

New Norwood restaurant Faff offers dégustation platters (two half or three one-third portions) for any or all courses. It’s a novelty that works well, writes Victor Strugo.
 
Published on: 21 Jul 08

Rust en Vrede

Chef David Higgs is orchestrating a truly memorable experience at his new restaurant on Stellenbosch property Rust en Vrede. By John Maytham.
 
Published on: 01 May 08

Aubergine/Andreotti's

It’s a restaurant that has taken good food to the Highway area, and kept it there.
 
Published on: 01 May 08

Cassia

Cassia is Durbanville’s current pride and joy. You’ll find this spiffy new restaurant on the grounds of the Nitida winery, where vistas of rolling green farmlands are the ideal backdrop for a venue that carries a menu with a definite rustic bent.
 
Published on: 01 May 08

Kong Roast

It was at a WINE magazine tasting of top Sauvignon Blancs in Jozi that a reader cornered me to tell of a hot new Gauteng restaurant that simply had to be reviewed here.
 
Published on: 01 May 08

Pizza Italia

There are vast numbers of Italian restaurants in South Africa but very few of them do justice to the beauty of this ancient culinary form. Every shopping mall from Cape Town to Komatieport and beyond has at least one nasty nook with Chianti bottle candlesticks and over-cooked pasta drenched in inappropriate sauces.
 
Published on: 01 May 08

Pure

Chalk and cheese – that’s the phrase that sprang immediately to mind when we walked into Pure, the relaunched restaurant at Hout Bay Manor.
 
Published on: 01 Apr 08

Cotage Fromage

Cotage Fromage used to be this quaint cottagey place to stop off for a cup of coffee and a slice of cake or a glass of wine and a cheese platter while touring the winelands near Paarl or Franschhoek.
 
 

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