{"id":534,"date":"2008-11-20T02:19:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2008-11-22T03:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T01:50:48","slug":"franschhoek-goes-to-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/franschhoek-goes-to-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Franschhoek goes to Cape Town!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well-known Franschhoek tapas restaurant Bouillabaisse is to open a sister restaurant in the new Epicurean Food Emporium in\u00a0Cape Town\u00a0next month.\u00a0 Chef and owner Camil Haas previously owned Klein Oliphantshoek, the guest house at which\u00a0he and his wife Ingrid prepared award-winning tasting menu meals for their guests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not only will a new Bouillabaisse open in Cape Town, but a new restaurant Crepe Suzette will also be opened by the Haas duo.<\/p>\n

The Epicurean Food Emporium has been designed by Conrad Gallagher Consulting, and will open in The Rockwell, an apartment building in De Waterkant.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will be set up as a neighbourhood food market, with 15 food and beverage stores selling freshly baked bread, homemade jam, chutney, pesto, olive oil, wine, gourmet sandwiches, chocolates, ice cream, confectionery and cheeses.\u00a0\u00a0It is to become a one-stop market synonomous with fine food, outstanding service, quality and food trends, reports Supermarket & Retailer<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Further restaurants, in addition to Bouillabaisse and Crepe Suzette, are set to open.<\/p>\n

Other restaurant news is that onewaterfront, the restaurant in the Cape Grace Hotel in the Waterfront,\u00a0which became famous when Bruce Robertson was the chef, is changing its name to Signal, reports eatout,<\/strong> in honour of Cape Town’s traditional noon day gun on Signal Hill.\u00a0\u00a0 The restaurant will serve Cape food, reflecting the French Huguenot, British, Dutch and Asian heritage of the Cape.<\/p>\n

Bruce Robertson, now the owner of award-winning and Top 10 restaurant The Showroom, is opening another restaurant, located in the Grand Daddy Hotel, previously The Metropole Hotel, in Long Street, called theshowroomcafe, reports eatout<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The menu will be casual, local and “unfussy”, and the chef is Simone Rossouw.<\/p>\n

Richard Carstens, top 10 restauranteur when he was at Lynton Hall in KwaZulu-Natal and Bijoux in Franschhoek, is not moving to Franschhoek, as speculated, but is relaunching\u00a0Relish in New Church Street, and\u00a0is now called Nova, reports eatout<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A tasting menu (at R 325 per person) and an a la carte menu will be offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well-known Franschhoek tapas restaurant Bouillabaisse is to open a sister restaurant in the new Epicurean Food Emporium in\u00a0Cape Town\u00a0next month.\u00a0 Chef and owner Camil Haas previously owned Klein Oliphantshoek, the guest house at which\u00a0he and his wife Ingrid prepared award-winning tasting menu meals for their guests.\u00a0 Not only will a new Bouillabaisse open in Cape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,20,19],"tags":[490,315,480,484,316,208,32366,267,475,481,472,471,474,486,470,32369,492,491,479,469,158,488,477,478,489,62,476,483,485,493,473,32,487,482,365],"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