The Power and the Glory

Typical bistro fare, which is delicious with no pretensions. Try items such as roast tomatoes and goat’s cheese on rye; smoked salmon on rye toast with cream cheese, sour grapes and rocket; or boiled egg on toast with nice and rich anchovy mayonnaise. The menu changes almost daily, and you might have sweet parsnip soup with fiery ginger one day, and fish cakes with roast potato salad the next. The hot dog on a salt pretzel is great, as are the beef and ale pies, when they’re in stock. Finish up with a generous slice of home-made cake.

The small list is not badly priced.

Friendly and helpful.

That it has in spades; it’s very idiosyncratic. In fact, that’s what makes this a-home-away-from-home for the habitués that hang out here. It’s slightly seedy in such a nice casual way, very comfortable and totally unintimidating – the way they like things in Tamboerskloof.

Their bar is called the Black Ram – it opens at 5pm and closes late. From a window seat watch the traffic go up the hill to the other side of town. (Greg Landman, April 2012)

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