Category: Restaurants

I’ve been curious to try out Kyoto Sushi Garden for a while. I’ve heard mixed reports which always makes me interested to see for myself. First impressions are lasting impressions they say, and aesthetically, this venue is very impressive. It’s a small restaurant, probably seats 30 or 40 people if you include the seats along the…

Lately I seem to be doing a lot of reviews on venues behind the Lentil Curtain. This last weekend I ate at Cafe Olympia which I have been wanting to try for ages. The reason I haven’t gotten round to eating at Cafe Olympia is not for lack of opportunities or trying, but because they…

I recently went and watched 2 shows at the Kalk Bay Theatre. The Kalk Bay Theatre is housed in an old church. The theatre is on the ground floor and the restaurant and kitchen above. It’s a cute little building. The theatre is not very big, with maybe 60 or so seats, around a small…

The Miller’s Thumb has been one of my favourite restaurants for a long time. So long in fact that my initial review of it was written before even the old website was launched. This means you won’t find that review on here or on the old site, but rather in one of the early newsletters.…

It seems that every second restaurant that opens these days, offers a ‘tapas style’ menu. I think it’s a great way of eating because I like tasting lots of different dishes (also probably because I am half spanish). The problem is that it’s not quite the drawcard that it was initially. When a place said…

I quite enjoy a little outing to Kalk Bay now and then. One of the great things about living in Cape Town is that a 30 or 40 minute drive in any direction takes you to a whole new world. There are many nice restaurants in Kalk Bay, but we normally go to Polana so…

I’ve previously posted about the great specials Beluga has been running. I’ve eaten there a couple of times in the last few months and we didn’t only have the specials, so I thought I better review it. First the dinner. We had the Blue Plate Sushi Special (R99 for 26 assorted pieces) as a starter. It’s…

This restaurant is a favourite of my parents, they always try and eat there whenever they are in Cape Town. So I have eaten at Rhodes Memorial Restaurant several times and I have never been disappointed. They used to have a bad reputation but ever since the new owners took over about 8 years ago,…

I’m not a big fan of buffets. Sometimes they can be nice but a lot of the time it’s an exercise in choosing the dishes that are worth eating. They are generally a lot more expensive than eating a la carte and one often ends up eating too much and feeling very uncomfortable. Often the food has…