Chef Ciska Rossouw has come a long way with her artisanal eatery Loaves on Long on Long Street, which she opened two years ago. This has been an exciting year for her so far, having taken on a new business partner Rickma Coxon, and having got married. A new exciting eatery development lies ahead. Continue reading →
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Restaurant Review: Stepbrothers Italian Deli, Locanda, and Bar lacks passion, waiter with Attitude!
I was looking for a brand new restaurant in De Waterkant, and landed at Stepbrothers Ristorante, it being a new Italian restaurant, bar, and deli, in error. I decided to lunch there, to get a feel for the restaurant, which opened six months ago. Continue reading →
‘Farm to table’ Little Saint restaurant serves ‘food for living’, with a Spanish touch!
Last week I was invited to try Little Saint restaurant on Upper Bree Street, in the semi-detached section of Cape Town’s top trendy restaurant street. I was pleasantly surprised to find the first working herb ‘garden’ inside a restaurant. Continue reading →
Bistro13 pops up at pop-up Hands On Street Food by Nic van Wyk at De Warenmarkt!
A year after opening at Stellenbosch Vineyards, Bistro 13 has opened as a pop-up restaurant at De Warenmarkt in Stellenbosch, called Hands On Street Food by Nic van Wyk.
I popped in at De Warenmarkt yesterday, and was lucky to find owner a chef Nic van Wyk in attendance. He motivated their three-month presence at the trendy new Deli/retail outlet/restaurant space as an opportunity to offer employment to former staff members who approached him for a job, but which he can not accommodate at his Bistro 13. He has given
the staff at the pop-up a three-month contract. Chef Nic follows in the footsteps of Chef George Jardine, who opened up with De Warenmarkt in July as its first pop-up. Chef Nic helped plan the pop-up at De Warenmarkt when it first opened.
The menu is casually written on a paper sheet behind the payment counter, but A5 copies of it is also Continue reading →