{"id":65913,"date":"2015-02-08T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=65913"},"modified":"2015-02-08T00:35:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:35:51","slug":"uk-restaurant-reviewer-nick-lander-praises-cape-town-cuisine-and-its-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/uk-restaurant-reviewer-nick-lander-praises-cape-town-cuisine-and-its-view\/","title":{"rendered":"UK restaurant reviewer Nick Lander praises Cape Town cuisine and its view!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chef's<\/a>When UK wine judge and writer Jancis Robinson visited Cape Town last month, she brought her restaurant critic and former restaurateur husband Nick Lander<\/strong><\/span><\/a> along. \u00a0He visited a handful of Cape Town restaurants, focusing mainly on Cape Town’s favourite foodie Bree Street<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a> and wrote a brief overview about them.<\/p>\n

Lander wrote that he found it hard to concentrate on Chef Christo Pretorius’ dishes of a lamb terrine, kingklip, and a milk and honey dessert, whilst eating at Azure at the Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa, given the breathtaking view onto the Atlantic Ocean: ‘Cape Town\u2019s natural beauty is so striking that it is impossible for any chef to compete<\/em>‘. \u00a0He blamed the lightweight Cape Town restaurant overview on the view!<\/p>\n

Another view which he enjoyed was of Table Mountain, whilst spending five hours on Bree Street, with ‘…\u00a0various exciting food and wine places that are emerging here<\/em>‘. \u00a0 \u00a0He added about Bree Street: ‘There is a sense of space here along the broad pavements, although how much longer this will last once its obvious pleasure factor is fully recognised, I am not sure<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

Places into which Lander popped in were Atlas Trading Company on Wale Street, soon to move\"Nick<\/a> from its long-standing location; Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants and Publik Wine Bar, sharing a space on Church Street off Bree Street; Jason’s Bakery; Sababa; and Chef’s Warehouse & Canteen<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chef Liam Tomlin’s restaurant received the most column centimetres, praised for ‘the exceptional cooking style of Irish-born Liam Tomlin and the hospitality of his English-born wife, Jan<\/em>‘, and the ‘best-value meal for a very long time’, <\/em>paying R380 for 8 tapas dishes to share. He is critical of the ‘tapas<\/em>‘ description, in that they ‘bear no recognition to the Spanish original. This is South Africa, after all, where appetites are large and therefore portion sizes have to be, too<\/em>‘! \u00a0Chef Liam admitted to Lander that he is ‘now cooking more happily than ever before in his career, a feeling I was definitely able to pick up on<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

Chef’s Warehouse & Canteen is receiving an increasing number of accolades (Rossouw’s Restaurants<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>and Eat Out Best Everyday Eatery<\/strong><\/span><\/a>), as well as international coverage, recently in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>One can say that is the midpoint of Bree Street, and the home of chefs on their day off!<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Tel (021) 433-2100, Twitter:@WhaleCottage \u00a0Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When UK wine judge and writer Jancis Robinson visited Cape Town last month, she brought her restaurant critic and former restaurateur husband Nick Lander along. \u00a0He visited a handful of Cape Town restaurants, focusing mainly on Cape Town’s favourite foodie Bree Street, and wrote a brief overview about them. Lander wrote that he found it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[29859,3,124,266,20,21],"tags":[847,24785,2232,5944,32366,22988,24263,26438,29447,13806,4373,942,12854,3769,29621,21527,1358,22702,4,1074,24787,26242,5692,16870,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\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