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The Pretoria restaurant scene features a number of top 10 establishments, like the award-winning La Madeleine, run by a dedicated Belgian couple who’ve been cooking up a storm for 30 years.
The city’s steakhouses do very well in the annual Steakhouse of the Year competition, and serve up some of the best grain-fed beef in the country. These steakhouses have of late become up-market venues that invest in the best of local red wines, and serve only prime cuts of beef and excellent venison specialties. This is your chance to try springbok carpaccio, eland steak and ostrich neck – particularly good at Cynthia’s Indigo Moon in Dey Street and the Famous Butcher’s Grill in the Lifestyle Centre, Waterkloof Ridge.
The local Greek, Italian and Portuguese communities run excellent and affordable eateries, and there are a number of places that serve up local specialties like ‘vetkoek’ (fried balls of bread dough – a homegrown speciality) and “pap”, the maize porridge that is a local staple. Visit Die Werf in Faerie Glen for local specialties.
Portions in this town are normally generous. Portuguese restaurants are famed for their deft touch with seafoods like grilled calamari, prawn platters and Mozambican crab curry. Choose between Espetada in Faerie Glen or Persopa in the Waterkloof Heights Shopping Centre. On the weekend, Greek places feature belly dancers, tzirtaki dancers and plate smashing. The Greek restaurant, Easy Ouzaria in Faerie Glen, serves authentic fare with all the fanfare to match on Saturday nights.
Before attending your big match, pop into any butchery or retail food shop and ask for some dried sausage and “biltong” (spicy, dried beef or venison shavings). The saltiness of the biltong demands you drink something after tasting it, and the dried “wors” or sausage provides enough sustenance to keep you going till your next meal out.
Pretoria is fortunate to have some of the best delis in the country that will happily pack you a fantastic picnic basket to take to the match. Visit the Carlton Café Delicious in Menlo Park and enjoy something on the premises, or shop for a takeaway.
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