Vietnamese food is supposed to be fresh, delicate and well balanced.
The meal I ate in Saigon had none of these qualities.
In fact, none of the dishes, (bar the vegetable spring rolls), had any redeeming qualities at all.
The dim sum starters were half way between a Chinese steamed bun, a warm wet sock, and a thinly [...]
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Tags: camp street, chinese, gardens, japanese, kloof street, saigon vietnamese restaurant 
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Tania Harrison grew up on a farm in the Karoo, and years later, via Paarl and Cape Town, she began to source food from her family farm to fill the “fridges of urban foodies”.
She started on the internet and the business has grown to such an extent that she is in expansion mode and you [...]
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Chef Stefan Marais works his magic this Autumn with his new menu of dishes designed to reflect the best of produce sourced from local producers committed to ethical practices. He uses top quality ingredients from small producers and creates earthy dishes which deliver on looks and taste.
What I love about Stefan’s approach is that he just [...]
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After just one year Blonde Restaurant on Hatfield St in Gardens is closing. It’s not a permanent closure, management say it will reopen in five months time.
Blonde Restaurant’s offering was an unusual one.
In a climate where people were tightening their belts, and there was a distinct move to casual eating out, they decided to buck [...]
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The time: 9:21 on a windy Cape Town Spring evening.
The place: Nonna Lina’s Pizza and Pasta joint, Gardens, Cape Town.
We order the bill. Just ok food, and very slow service. It was a pit stop on the way home after a long day out.
Bill arrives. Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.
Food is totalled, then a [...]
Cape Town restaurants aren’t really suited to Winter.
Summer is their thing.
Warm weather, blue skies, spectacular views and streetscapes mean that open spaces, alfresco dining and starry skies are the backdrop to some of the best dining experiences in the Cape.
But come Autumn and Winter a metamorphose occurs. What were once airy breezy restaurants become cold [...]
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