Johannesburg City Bytes

Darkie Cafe

It's slick, it's happening, and it's misnomered -- Darkie Café's interior is anything but dark. Bejewelled with shiny mosaics, opulent chandeliers, a white colour scheme and populated...

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Cornutis, Illovo : Best...

A pizza's a pizza's a pizza. It's peasant food with First-World pretensions, and embellishments- a gilded bread roll. That's what I'd always assumed until now.

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Trentino's: a little Italian

Tucked just off Jan Smuts Avenue on Buckingham, Trentino's is easy to find and offers very reasonably priced choices for any Italian food lover who's looking for something fresh.

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Renato's Emmarentia - Where...

Forget the Spur, Mugg & Bean, and all the other soulless franchises that pepper our city like neon zits.

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Spice is the spice of life...

It's an interesting fact that if it wasn't for spice there would be no whiteys in South Africa. The Cape was initially colonised because Jan Van Riebeck decided he needed to stop and take...

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Mosaic Restaurant: How the...

After last week's slumming it in the Bushveld Pub, I decided to see how the other half lives. Pah to plastic tot glasses, sticky table tops and pies.

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Vegetarian? Sing hallelujah!

Vegetarianism has been slowly picking up momentum in and around Jo'burg for the last couple of years. As testimony to the growing numbers of people that have either toyed with the idea of...

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Spiceburg Restaurant

I've been meaning to try Spiceburg for a while now. From the outside it looked warm and cosy and there is nothing like a good curry on a winter's night.

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Pigalle - An incredible treat

Pigalle in Melrose Arch is quite possibly the best restaurant i have been to in South Africa. I would not make this statement lightly. This place in incredible. However, you'll pay a...

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Café Mexicho

Last week's cold front left me with a serious chilli craving and a mild case of the winter blues. With this in mind, I headed to Café Mexicho, which turned out to be the perfect place to...

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