{"id":3012,"date":"2009-07-06T00:07:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2009-07-10T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:42:18","slug":"new-restaurant-openings-defy-credit-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/new-restaurant-openings-defy-credit-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"New restaurant openings defy credit crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Good news for Cape Town food lovers is that the restaurant closures trend seems to have stopped, and is being reversed by new restaurants opening up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The most interesting of the new restaurant openings is The Quarter, a gourmet bunny-chow restaurant owned by Bruce Robertson, previously of The Showroom.. <\/span>Located at 44 Long Street, underneath The New Space Theatre, The Quarter is more of a take-out than sit-down restaurant, due to its small size, but is not for the faint-hearted. <\/span>Robertson has glass jars quirkily “decorating” his restaurant, containing\u00a0various\u00a0food types preserved in glass jars,\u00a0including octopus,\u00a0crayfish, and the most off-putting of all, a de-skinned rabbit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The New Space Theatre building also has the popular Italian style Anytime, Boo Radleys and Union at St Stephens Church connected to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Eastern Food Bazaar has opened in the old Wellington Fruitgrower’s\u00a0building, on the corner of Darling and Adderley Streets, and serves value-for-money Indian foods.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is taking Cape Town by storm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sadly, the latest restaurant to close is Nova, off New Church Street in Cape Town.\u00a0 Chef Richard Carstens has been a Top 10 restaurant chef.\u00a0\u00a0 Nova tried to appeal to guest houses to visit the restaurant, offering them\u00a0a special discount, instead of inviting these owners to experience the restaurant with their compliments.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Hermanus too, the excellent Joubert closed on 3 July.\u00a0\u00a0 The chef and owner says he is just not able to keep the restaurant\u00a0alive financially, and is looking for a job.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news for Cape Town food lovers is that the restaurant closures trend seems to have stopped, and is being reversed by new restaurants opening up. The most interesting of the new restaurant openings is The Quarter, a gourmet bunny-chow restaurant owned by Bruce Robertson, previously of The Showroom.. Located at 44 Long Street, underneath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,75,20,21],"tags":[1628,1629,484,1381,32366,1624,1626,1637,488,62,1627,1351,32,1625,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t