My food buddy and I discovered a new favourite. [recommended to us by a friend] It's a really gorgeous restaurant nestled in the leafy green suburb of Craighall Park.
We had a six o'clock dinner reservation and were seated outside on the patio overlooking the garden. The driveway leading up to the restaurant had a beautiful willow tree that gave it so much character and appeal. [love willow trees] Anyway, I ordered their chicken pot pie served with a warm aubergine, beetroot, onion and lettuce salad. It was the creamiest, tastiest chicken pie I've had in a while.
My food buddy had their fillet steak served with rustic potato chips served with a homemade mayonnaise [I had some of the chips and mayo and that was amazing - I even drizzled some of it on my salad]. The steak looked a little dry to me but he was very happy with it.
Dessert time came and my heart broke. The selection looked amazing but I sadly couldn't have any [I'm off cake and everything that resembles dessert for 40 days. This explains why I haven't baked anything in so long]. Anyway, my buddy ordered the cheesecake and gave me a blow by blow account of his experience. Apparently the base was made of ginger biscuits and the berry sauce was amazing. It looked pretty amazing too [sigh]
After dinner we visited the gallery situated in the same vicinity as the restaurant. We also met the very interesting and inspiring photographer, Norman Hanna, who was show casing his work - the perfect way to end a perfect evening and reason 1,000,001 why I love Joburg. :-)
6 Burnside avenue
Craighall
011 326 3970
