• Restaurant Review: The Classy Balducci Restaurant, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

    9 June 2015 - By 

    UPDATE: Sadly, as of December 2020, Balducci has closed its doors after 24 wonderful years of service. However, you can still support their sister restaurant, Gibsons. Last month I had the immense pleasure of visiting what must surely be one of Cape Town’s finest restaurant offerings: Balducci. Tucked away near the lower level entrance/exit point of the V & A Waterfront’s Victoria Wharf in Shop 6162, Balducci’s philosophy, as stated in their own words, is a simple one: “to provide a memorable experience by redefining the essence of good home cooked food and continually upping the standards with its slick…

  • Food and Drink Review – Sushi Experience: Sevruga, V&A Waterfront

    20 April 2015 - By 

    Few settings can rival Cape Town’s magnificent & graceful V & A Waterfront – but when you add a fine-dining sushi experience in a professional and smart, yet decidedly relaxed restaurant environment on the harbour’s edge to it, you have just done precisely that and you have been served by: Sevruga. Sevruga – and it’s sister restaurant, Beluga (for more info., see: http://www.beluga.co.za) – is owned by The Caviar Foundation and/or Restaurant Group – based both locally in the Mother City and in the ‘jewel’ of the Indian Ocean, Durban – and, according to their website, http://www.sevruga.co.za,”embodies a passion for…