Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
restaurantslatest news & developments
Nine Yards is not trying to reinvent Rosebank. If anything, it understands exactly what makes the area seductive.

Nine Yards is reimagining slow living in Joburg

A lush, all-in-one Rosebank precinct where food, art, fashion and green space come together to turn everyday city life into a slow, walkable experience

The country must rethink its agricultural marketing and promotion approach in its export effort. Photo: Peter Adams/Avalon/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

High-foodie culture comforts

Elitism is the new authentic as diners seek solace at the Winelands’ exclusive restaurants

Marble Johannesburg unveils exciting addition to menu: Introducing USDA Prime Selection from Snake River Farms

The USDA Prime designation signifies the highest grade of beef available, known for its exceptional marbling, tenderness and flavour

Cheers!: Sommelier Jemma Styer (right), who started Acid with chef Jess Doveton. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Acid’s trip is going to good-tasting places

Acid, the year-old wine bar in Parktown North provides aesthetically sound food that doesn’t damage your budget

Raw deal: Beef tartare is on many fine-dining menus. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Restaurant craze red in tooth and claw

For fans of beef tartare and its variants, the defiantly voguish feast is a (very) rare thrill …

Talking Italian: Fugazzi in Rosebank offers hearty, flavourful food at prices that won’t break the bank.

The Flavour Hunter: Fancy an Italian meal in New York?

Relaxed eatery Fugazzi in Johannesburg’s Rosebank has a Big Apple diner atmosphere

Love affair with the East: The Red Room at the Mount Nelson hotel in Gardens, Cape Town. Photo: Claire Gunn

Restaurant is a modern ode to oriental opulence

The Red Room offers diners a culinary tour of the East in an luxurious, old-world ambience

Choice: Kali’s thinly sliced masala-rubbed beef fillet served on flaky chapartha.

Try the tantric tapas at Kali in Durban

Kail is a great place for adventurous eaters who also enjoy their cocktails

Indochine Interior. Photo: Supplied

Entries for World Luxury Restaurant Awards open

The awards are presented on a global, continent, regional and country basis, with one restaurant receiving the Global Restaurant of the Year.

The Living Room won the Restaurant of the year award.

The best places to eat out

Restaurant of the year goes to the only Durban-based restaurant that made it to 2022 Eat Out Award winners

Wandile Mabaso: Soweto-born chef Mabaso was named 2022 Chef of the Year at the Luxe Restaurant Awards.

World-class, piping-hot local chefs

This country boasts some of the best creators of fabulous food in the world. Here are our top 10 award-winning homegrown gourmets

The Living Room won the Restaurant of the year award.

South Africa’s top five restaurants

Here’s a list of our top five fine-dining restaurants in SA

Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The EFF is not xenophobic

Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers

Desolate: In March 2020, under the first lockdown, Durban’s North Beach was deserted save for a rickshaw puller. The 1.5-million-strong hospitality industry has been decimated by the pandemic. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty)

Tourism, hospitality and restaurant sectors welcome vaccine passports

Vaccine passports prove to be a contentious issue for tourism, hospitality and restaurant sectors as some welcome them and some have fears of placing another hurdle ahead of…

Ramaphosa — ‘We are still near the beginning of this epidemic’

President’s address covered the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the murder and rape of women ‘who were killed by men’

Heather Van Harte’s Observatory Night Market will no longer be running due to COVID-19 putting her under huge finacial pressure, Cape Town.  (David Harrison)

Covid-19 and the food industry: ‘I had a wobble last week, I was gatvol’

Heather Van Harte, who runs a small catering business, is changing her cooking habits during the lockdown, and has plans to start a food garden

‘They say: ‘No, just make us the beef and the spinach and the pap.’ But I say: No, you have to get some veggies also.’ (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Slice of life: I cook for men looking for jobs

‘I prefer to cook for these people for free than to sell the food even. I enjoy it because we use the big, big pots’

Marble restaurant at Keyes Art Mile.

​Art, consumerism and ‘curated’ gentrification meet at Keyes Art Mile

A new "curated neighbourhood" in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is on the block but this "safe space" is certainly not inclusive.

The Idiom restaurant in Somerset West.

Idiom restaurant celebrates a decade of excellence with paired wine tasting

Tucked away in the hills of the Helderberg, the new Idiom restaurant and wine tasting centre feels like an escape to another world.

The Shortmarket Club restaurant in Cape Town.

​Begin the day with breakfast at The Shortmarket Club

The awarded Dale-Roberts restaurants are known for their lunches and dinners but The Shortmarket Club is also open for breakfast.