SALT at Paul Cluver… All the more reason to wine and dine in Elgin

WHERE to go for an interesting plate of food, a decent glass of wine and a relaxing ambience come lunchtime in the Elgin basin outside Grabouw. Well, there’s The Pool Room at Oak Valley, and there was Fresh at Paul Cluver… And/but just opened is SALT, taking over from Fresh, with the promise of the best in the district when it comes to food and the guarantee of great whites and reds from one of the Top 20 wineries in South Africa.

Claiming to be the first wine farm in the Cape to offer a ‘wine, salt and food pairing’ experience, SALT has a varied menu with the lunch options of two courses for R275 or three for R340 – the sirloin, fish and pasta dishes particularly appealing on paper. Steering the new venture are chefs Craig Cormack and Beau du Toit together with new member of the team Mechell Spann – some may know them from The Goose Roasters of Stellenbosch, with Cormack having also been very involved in preparing good food at Ellerman House, Cape Grace and the Overture restaurant of Hidden Valley Wines on the Helderberg.

See below for comment. For more info about the place, see here. For recommendations of other good tables on the wine farms of the Cape, see here.

 

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  • SALT at Paul Cluver offers good food at a humble, casual venue… You’re encouraged to sit at one of the lovely tables in the garden, relaxing under the plane trees, with children entertaining themselves on the lawn or around the fishpond. The service is friendly and willing, the presentation is professional, the salt selection novel, the wine pairing still at development stage a month or so after opening. Stylish but unpretentious. I’d go back!

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