Chef Liam Tomlin is a doyen of the restaurant industry in the Cape, owning Chefs Warehouses in Franschhoek, Constantia and at Tintswalo, as well as Thali.
Wednesday 30 March 2022, Day 181 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a lovely cool day, at 19C, with unexpected rain at lunchtime, and a misty end of the day in Camps Bay, so cold that I bought ingredients at Woolies for my first pot of soup of the year; for preparing for four clients, meeting at two locations, all going well, and receiving praise from the owner of the second one for how well things are going; for another Appeltaart and TWG tea treat at Labotessa Hotel & Café, just loving this hidden gem on Church Square, and having a meeting with Continue reading →
After 8 years of opening Chefs Warehouse & Canteen on Bree Street, the second venue of Chef Liam Tomlin’s first Cape Town restaurant, and despite undergoing a name change more recently, the Tapas restaurant closed down yesterday.
The closure of Chefs Warehouse & Canteen Winebar & Pinchos brings to an end the presence of Chef Liam’s businesses in Heritage Square, having walked away from Local, his Lebanese restaurant Mazza, and La Cantina earlier this year. Continue reading →
Now that Chef Liam Tomlin’s planned Russian restaurant in Moscow is unlikely to see the light of day for some time to come, he is putting all his energy into the renovations of an historic three-storey Tintswalo-owned building across the road from his first-ever Chefs Warehouse in Heritage Square, now called Pinchos.
It is said that Chef Liam is planning to leave or close Pinchos, the branch just not as successful in attracting customers as the Chefs Warehouses at Beau Constantia, Tintswalo, and Franschhoek. Tomlin has recently walked away from his Mazza and Local establishments in the former HQ, also located in Heritage Square.