Famous fish from The Famous Fishhoek Co.

To equalise the negative, I will have to make a post on a restaurant that never lets us down: The Famous Fishhoek Co.

This is our go-to-restaurant (like normal people that go to Spur if they do not know where they want to go). It is basically a family restaurant in Pretoria. The menu is embedded with South African homour, the staff is always friendly and efficient.

The wine:
Not your platinum wine list, but there are a few decent dry whites.

The food:
Their hake and chips are perfect. They have right to talk about their "Famous beer batter".

They have a unique selection of salads which gives you a taste explosion. As with many places, you unfortunately have to order this taste explosion as a main meal as the portion size is quite big. Their sushi is good and the other fish is ok.

The one downside is their prawns, here you will have to rely on my boyfriend's opinion as I am allergic. He says that the spices do not compliment it and that there are much better places to eat prawns.

I will continue going there as they are decently priced and reliable.

Mistake I will never make again

My boyfriend and I have been very lucky in our dining experiences we have had over the past year and a half (I use this time frame as we were poor students before that).

It grieves me that the first post I will make will be about a mistake we made to confuse the restaurants Karoo Cafe and KAROO - Cattle and land

I had a big craving for fillet and so as we have heard many good things about "Karoo" we Googled it, saw that it was close by and went. We ended up at Karoo Cafe.

The decoration was peculiar (very Karoo farm) and we enjoyed browsing the second hand books wile waiting for our food. The wine list was short and sweet, and I ordered a bottle of La Bri Affinity 2009 which would have gone perfectly with a good fillet.

The food:

Our waitress took her sweet time to bring the food, we could hear the kitchen bell ringing for a few minutes while she was socializing at another table. I ordered the 200g beef fillet (Served with mash potato or rice & vegetables) and my boyfriend ordered the Karoo lamb chops (3 Chops and a caramelised onion & pap tower served with salad).

My fillet was tough and my boyfriend's lamb chops were dried out and flavourless (I might be used to my perfect lamb chops I make on the braai). The pap was like rubber which have been might be the idea, I have never had pap in a restaurant before.

I can commend them for the mash... It was delicious, but I cannot justify paying more than a R100 for good mash.

All in all, it was a bad experience and we actually gave less than 10% tip, something we never do having waitered ourselves. We are planning to try out the other "Karoo" this weekend and I hope that my fillet steak craving will be satisfied there.