Eating out

Thanks OP. I'll be trying out Silver Orange very soon :)

Something interesting about Cafe Del Sol: It won the award for Best Italian Restaurant for 2012. Restaurants in Joburg don't usually win these kinds of awards as they're usually handed to places in CPT. So, for a place in Joburg to win "BEST OF" for an entire country is really special - but you'll see why when you get there.

Please note: They're not open on Mondays, and if you want to go there - you'd better make a booking 2 weeks (at least) in advance. No jokes.
 
Neo said:
Thanks OP. I'll be trying out Silver Orange very soon :)

Something interesting about Cafe Del Sol: It won the award for Best Italian Restaurant for 2012. Restaurants in Joburg don't usually win these kinds of awards as they're usually handed to places in CPT. So, for a place in Joburg to win "BEST OF" for an entire country is really special - but you'll see why when you get there.

Please note: They're not open on Mondays, and if you want to go there - you'd better make a booking 2 weeks (at least) in advance. No jokes.
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You're spot on about the bookings, you have no hope of getting a booking for the same week you call. I've tried before. They are quite popular.

I actually noticed that they got that best Italian award while I was looking for somewhere else to go the other day. Well deserved imo
 
Thanks for the thread... this is quite useful as I'm still quite new in the area and don't know anything. :)
 
We normally just 'walk-in' at Cafe Del Sol. Best Italian in JHB by far!

Whang Thai in Sandton also a must! Angry Duck FTW!
 
Ok found a new place over the weekend whilst I was visiting someone in Krugersdorp, called the Rabbit Hole in Viljoen street. I had probably the best burger that I have had in years. Picture incoming.

http://www.therabbithole.co.za/

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Also, photo of their restaurant.

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We visited the Silver Orange Bistro over the weekend. WELL worth the drive there. The food was fantastic. Pricing - well - don't go at the end of the month ;)
 
Neo said:
We visited the Silver Orange Bistro over the weekend. WELL worth the drive there. The food was fantastic. Pricing - well - don't go at the end of the month ;)
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Expensive then? I only went for a breakfast, and I didn't think it was too bad, but other meals are probably more. Obviously not what you'd pay at Wimpy or something but still, I think it was under R200 two breakfasts, and a few coffee's and latte's and stuff.
 
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So... I wanted to take my wife out to a nice restaurant the other day. We would have gone to our favorite place, Cafe Del Sol in Olivedale (http://cafedelsol.co.za), but sadly it was closed for the holidays.

So I looked around a bit and came across the Silver Orange Bistro out by Hartebeespoort dam. http://www.silverorangebistro.co.za. It's a very lekker place on their family's citrus farm. We went for breakfast, and I kind of thought that breakfast is more or less the same no matter where you go, but this was amazing. I'll post some photo's if I remember, because the presentation was also very impressive, but it was the most delicious breakfast I've ever had.

I had a farmhouse breakfast, which had a drizzle of what seemed like mixture of olive oil and maybe basil pesto, which really brought out a lot of flavour, and a small fillet steak, which was a perfect medium rare, and super tender, eggs, bacon, potato wedges, mushrooms and toast. My wife had a stack of french toast, bacon and banana, which came with cream on the side and a fancy sugar decoration thing.

The waiter told us that no-one really comes for breakfast though because the lunch is so much better, so I'm dying to go out there for lunch one day. I see they even do wine tastings. The prices were pretty reasonable as well, which was a nice surprise.

Anyways, thought I'd make a thread and see if anyone else knows of lekker places to eat out.

EDIT: As promised, here's some pics

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Now that is what I call a masterpiece! :D
 
Neo said:
We visited the Silver Orange Bistro over the weekend. WELL worth the drive there. The food was fantastic. Pricing - well - don't go at the end of the month ;)
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I should elaborate:

For my wife and I - starters, mains and desserts. With a bottle of white wine. It equated to R600. I would say the prices are the same as Cafe Del Sol's. Although, we wouldn't have a bottle of wine at CDS - that would probably require a down payment.
 
Neo said:
I should elaborate:

For my wife and I - starters, mains and desserts. With a bottle of white wine. It equated to R600. I would say the prices are the same as Cafe Del Sol's. Although, we wouldn't have a bottle of wine at CDS - that would probably require a down payment.
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Ok, that's about what I expect from a nice place for a three course meal and some wine. It's about what I usually pay at CDS as well
 
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