Tag Archives: fine dining

Stellenbosch bliss at The Jordan Restaurant with Marthinus

The opening of The Jordan Restaurant with Marthinus Ferreira in Stellenbosch Kloof at the end of 2022 crowned a great year for the family outfit offering some of South Africa’s finest wines, fabulous food and accommodation in the great outdoors.

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Top 5 SA restaurants all in the Cape according to Gourmet Guide

JUST DAYS after the 2022 Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards panel chair Abigail Donnelly announced their choice of the top-rated tables in South Africa, fellow food writer Jenny Handley went public with her panel’s preferences in the 2023 JHP Gourmet Guide. The Eat Out awards will be presented on 20 November, but we’ve been told the names of 42 restaurants

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FYN winelist speaks to the nature of this Top 50 restaurant

A JOURNEY of discovery! That’s what they promise to put on your plates and the same can be said about what they pour into your glass. The FYN dining experience was recently ranked among the World’s Top 50, following its inclusion among the Top 20 according to Cape Town’s Inside Guide, and one wonder’s how it will rate in terms

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Where to lunch on a wine farm today, tomorrow, next week…

  R300 FOR a good sirloin or pepper-crusted fillet with fries, salad and a decent glass of red. Or R300 for salmon, potatoes, greens and a decent glass of white. On the deck or patio, under the oaks, outside a top restaurant of a top cellar on a sunny afternoon in the beautiful winelands of the Cape. Have you been

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Good food and wine, good room with a view: Waterkloof joins select group of restaurants in the Cape winelands

NEDBANK’S presentation of American Express Platinum Fine Dining Awards to Waterkloof on the Sir Lowry’s Pass Road outside Somerset West and De Grendel on the Tygerberg Hill in Panorama/Durbanville brings the number of top SA wine farm restaurant laureates during the past year to around 20, i.e. including those that achieved top honours in the 2013 Eat Out Awards and/or Three Star ratings for

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