Category Archives: Johannesburg

Top new restaurants open in Cape Town and Winelands!

Shortmarket Club logoJune has seen the opening of excellent restaurants The Shortmarket Club, SOURCE, Idiom, and The Stack, despite it being the middle of winter.  New restaurant openings continue, especially in Cape Town, and few restaurants have closed down.

We update information about newly opened and closed restaurants continuously, and welcome information.

Restaurant Openings

Chef Luke Dale-Roberts’ Shortmarket Club, with Wesley Randles, former Pot Luck Club Chef, has opened (photograph)

#   The Stack has re-opened, after stunning renovations due to fire damage. Continue reading →

‘Chefs who Share – the ART of Giving’ grows to week-long event, in Johannesburg this year!

Chefs-Who-Share-2015-_emailer_02‘Chefs who Share – the ART of giving’ is hosting the fourth charity Gala Dinner in September this year, but has reinvented itself in changing its location, and in making an almost week-long event out of Chefs who Share! Continue reading →

New restaurant openings in Cape Town and Winelands continue in winter!

Tuk Tuk Beer vatsNew restaurant openings continue, especially in Cape Town, despite winter having arrived, and further restaurants have closed down.

We update information about newly opened and closed restaurants continuously.

Restaurant Openings

#   A Mexican-style tapas restaurant has opened inside Tuk Tuk craft beer microbrewery in Franschhoek (photograph)

#   Mulberry & Prince has opened on the corner of Bree and Pepper Street, with owners American Cynthia Rivera and local Cornel Mostert  Continue reading →

Five of S. Pellegrino top 10 Young Chef 2016 Africa-Middle East finalists from SA!

S Pellegrino Young Chef throwing flowerThe S. Pellegrino Young Chef 2016 finalists have been announced, ten finalists from twenty world regions competing to win the regional Honours, before 20 winners of the 20 regions meet each other in the Grand Final of the international Young Chef 2016 contest.

The Africa-Middle East finalist list has a lower South African young chef presence, yet Continue reading →