The good restaurant thread

IceCreamMan · 2011-12-31T16:54:20+00:00

even guitarists need to eat right...so why not a thread dedicated to good food establishments .... ? Today i had a long lingering lunch at Joita's , a lil portuguese restaurant in Umhlanga in the protea shopping centre....al fresco .....and dayum it was damn good...... i had peri peri baby chicken with fries, lovely wife had chicken livers (starters) and prawns (starters) for main course. Washed it down with 3 beers an the missus had 3 glasses of wine....top class food ...... bill came to R270-00. we ate like kings .......

domhatch

two 'oriental' restaurants in jhb's northern burbs - wang thai (for thai food) in nelson mandela square. a bit pricy, but most excellent food. and saigon on rivonia road - vietnamese cuisine (no surprises there) - relatively pricy too, but not as much as wang thai, and the food is brilliant. also there's luca's italian in sunninghill - good value, awesome salad dressing (trust me, it's addictive), and they have authentic grappa.

of course, my favourite food is meat purchased by my missus, cooked on my baaaaaarbie the same day with beer in hand and served fresh and rare accompanied by starch and salad, just the way i like it.

deefstes

domhatch wrote two 'oriental' restaurants in jhb's northern burbs - wang thai (for thai food) in nelson mandela square. a bit pricy, but most excellent food. and saigon on rivonia road - vietnamese cuisine (no surprises there) - relatively pricy too, but not as much as wang thai, and the food is brilliant.

+2 (one for Wang Thai and one for Saigon).

There's a Wang Thai in Brooklyn (Pta) as well. I suspect they may have been the original one (the certainly preceded the Sandton one) but they're just as good. Another Thai chain that I'm quite fond of is Kai Thai, although I've only ever been to the one in Randburg (Fontainebleau).

Question 1: What are your favourite Indian restaurants? We're always looking for a good Indian restaurant (and I'm not talking that crappy Durban Curry rubbish). We've had two favourites which have both closed down. Our current favourites are probably Sitar in Cresta shopping centre and Ghazal in Bryanston (where I think the food is better but the ambience is a bit lacking).

And I'm sorry, I don't care how many "Best of Jo'burg" awards they've won but Karma in Greenside is crap!

Question 2: Does anyone perhaps know of decent Korean restaurants? I love Korean cuisine but it's not all that common in SA. I know of only one Korean restaurant in Jhb which is in Rivonia but they look decidedly dodgy. Any others that I don't know of perhaps?

flatfourfan

deefstes wrote There's a Wang Thai in Brooklyn (Pta) as well. I suspect they may have been the original one (the certainly preceded the Sandton one) but they're just as good. Another Thai chain that I'm quite fond of is Kai Thai, although I've only ever been to the one in Randburg (Fontainebleau).

Closed down a while back..........pity, it was REALLY nice food. Pricey though.

deefstes

flatfourfan wrote
deefstes wrote There's a Wang Thai in Brooklyn (Pta) as well. I suspect they may have been the original one (the certainly preceded the Sandton one) but they're just as good. Another Thai chain that I'm quite fond of is Kai Thai, although I've only ever been to the one in Randburg (Fontainebleau).
Closed down a while back..........pity, it was REALLY nice food. Pricey though.

Shocker! That's a big loss for your poor Pta suckers.

flatfourfan

deefstes wrote
flatfourfan wrote
deefstes wrote There's a Wang Thai in Brooklyn (Pta) as well. I suspect they may have been the original one (the certainly preceded the Sandton one) but they're just as good. Another Thai chain that I'm quite fond of is Kai Thai, although I've only ever been to the one in Randburg (Fontainebleau).
Closed down a while back..........pity, it was REALLY nice food. Pricey though.

Shocker! That's a big loss for your poor Pta suckers.

Yup, we used to go there in groups of 10 people plus and order everything and just pass it around......I don't think that the people in the area really cared for it though as it was never busy, only diplomats ever used to go there.

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