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It’s Sussex month at the Local Grill

Every month the Local Grill in Parktown North features a particular breed of beef on it’s menu. The restaurant has not been named the Wolftrap Championship Steakhouse 2013 without reason and one of those is the way it goes about offering its customers something different on its menu. The month of October will feature the…

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Next Restaurant launches it’s new menu with melancholic video titled “The Hunt”

Restaurants are finding more innovative ways to announce changing menu’s and Next Restaurant is no exception, they use videos posted to You Tube in celebration of a new menu. Chef Grant Achatz and his ever changing Chicago restaurant recently unveiled their new menu which highlights wild game. The promotional video titled “The Hunt” has ratcheted up 50,000 views in…

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Best South African Restaurants – Hartford House

Hartford House in the Natal Midlands came in at number 10 in the Eat Out Best Restaurant Awards 2012 and made it onto the American Express Top Places to Dine list. Jackie Cameron has been the heart and soul of this achievement over the past few years. Her grandfather was a butcher and both grandmothers…

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The Test Kitchen and the Woodstock Revival

It was Time Magazine that said November 24, 2010, was the day that Woodstock officially became “Cape Town’s hottest district…when Luke Dale-Roberts opened The Test Kitchen there.” Luke Dale Roberts had spent several years turning La Colombe into an internationally recognized restaurant. When it was time to leave he said he chose The Old Biscuit Mill as he…

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The Test Kitchen – Eat Out Restaurant of the Year 2012

The Test Kitchen has been raking in the awards both locally and internationally since it opened in November 2010. The Cape Town restaurant located in the very fashionable Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock was opened by Luke Dale Roberts following his departure from La Colombe, a restaurant he had guided to 12th place in the San…

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Top 10 Restaurants in South Africa 2012

The Eat Out Awards have become a much anticipated annual event where the Top 10 Restaurants are revealed. While the awards seldom appear to be without controversy they still give you a good idea as to what and where the best places to visit are. Walking away with the big prize was Luke Dale Roberts…

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Deena Naidoo opens Aarya, his MasterChef SA Grand Prize

South Africa’s first MasterChef Deena Naidoo opened his restaurant Araya at MonteCasino last week. It was a sparkling affair at the newly renamed Aarya restaurant (formerly Mondo Vino) at MonteCasino in Johannesburg. An array of guests were on hand to witness Deena’s MasterChef journey continue into the unknown territory of managing a restaurant, not that he will…

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Chefs get the knives out after blogger criticises crab starter

Another incident of a chef turning on a blogger has arisen except this time a few of his mates joined in on Twitter to abuse James Isherwood after he criticised Chef Bosi’s Hibiscus Restuarant in Mayfair, London. James wrote on his blog that he had visited the restaurant after enjoying Chef Bosi’s food at the…

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Burger King coming to South Africa

Global Fast Food giant Burger King is on its way to South Africa through leisure group Grand Parade Investments. Business Day Live reports that GPI executive chairman Hassen Adams said: “Grand Parade Investments is continually evaluating opportunities that will help support the company’s strategic objectives. Our extensive experience in the management of our outlet-driven business…

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Gordon Ramsay Steakhouse at Paris Las Vegas.

Gordon Ramsay has brought his unique style and culinary flair to Las Vegas with the Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas, his first in the city The two-level steakhouse has a “chunnel” entrance and then immediately captures their attention with an eye-catching, restaurant wide Union Jack ceiling mural and custom neon sculpture, handsomely tailored…