Category: Restaurants

We ate at Reuben’s at The Robertson Small Hotel on the last night of our time in Robertson for the Slow festival. Before I write about my experience of the restaurant, I must just tell you that the Robertson Small Hotel is awesome. We were given a short tour of the hotel and of some…

On our first evening at the Robertson Slow Festival, we were booked into Karoux. It’s on the main road in McGregor and we were staying in McGregor so it was a local option. I don’t really know much about McGregor, except that it’s a really small town. My experiences of restaurants in small towns have…

Sinns at Wembley Square has been around for quite some time. I’ve had drinks at the bar next door and I’ve had snacks there a few times and tried their Spring special last year. I quite like that closed open space in Wembley Square, it has the potential to have an awesome vibe. If the…

On Broadway theatre has moved into what was the New Space theatre in Long Street and On Broadway restaurant has taken over the space that was Time Out Cafe. We ate at the restaurant before watching a show upstairs. The restaurant is not reserved for patrons of the theatre, it’s available to anyone looking for…

Brio is in the old Riboville space and is owned by Lauren and Skippy who also own the Codfather in Camps Bay. It has a very different feel from Riboville. While Riboville was a large space with modern decor juxtapositioned against the old original wood paneling and marble walls, Brio embraces the old feel and…

This is another restaurant that I should have visited long ago but just never got round to it. It would be difficult not to go with high expectations because it has been getting rave reviews and was in the Eat out top ten for 2009 and 2010. The negative comments I heard were that it…

It feels like ages since I’ve written a restaurant review. This Waterfront blogging gig really took over. I have some negative reviews to share with you but thought I would start with a positive one first. We’re all struggling a little with post World Cup depression so we don’t need more negativity. The Kove and…

When overseas visitors tell me they want to eat at the best restaurant in Cape Town, I send them to Rust en Vrede (with locals I check their budget first). I know there will be much debate about which is the best restaurant in Cape Town, but for me it is Rust en Vrede. I…

I remember reading about the Natale Labia Museum in the newspaper a while back. Unfortunately the story was not a positive one. The house in Muizenburg which was the original residence of Natale Labia, the first Italian ambassador to South Africa, had been donated to the state as a museum quite a few years before.…