Jacqueline Kinnear
14-May-2012
The most incredible Mother's Day Meal yesterday. Thank you for adding to my special day with my daughter, Sarah.
Francesca
14-May-2012
A flawless lunch, absolutely delicious! Hope to be back soon.
Johan Liebenberg
5-Apr-2012
We were lucky. It was a perfect day in early autumn and somehow there was a softness in the air, and the leaves on the vines, in the soft, rolling landscape, were turning a subtle tone of yellow and red. There was a dam, of course, a girl was throwing a ball to the sheepdog on the sprawling lawns.
The wines, the wines! (I just wish their website would make it easier to locate their wines. I had to eventually Google 'double gold Veritas barrel fermented to get hold of the name) It's Outlier, and it had matured for a year or two. Magnificent. I was sure I could taste sweet melon but the tasting notes proved me wrong.
Then, the meal, the vista. The girl was still tossing a ball to the dog. Someone was taking photographs. The starter of mussels baked in parchment paper was the best I have yet had. The Saldanha Bay mussels (Spanish) were unforgettable, swimming in a gentle pool of coconut milk and lemon grass. (I thought I detected fennel but I was once again wrong, at least according to the waiter. It was not my day in that sense.) I have to say the aioli was simply the lightest I have tasted. I wondered if there was cream in it, but decided not to ask, lest I be proved wrong yet again. It was, how should I put it, a study in lightness. Then the sole gratin was a bit of a let down, I have to say. The poor sole fingers were simply smothered in cheese and layers of potato. No, it didn't work. It was too rich. Potatoes and sole? No, perhaps not. But who cares. I don't even think about that ... as I am haunted by the mussels in a coconut milk sauce .... and aioli as light as clouds.
Well, why say everything was perfect when you can find fault? I thought the salesman at the wine cellar was a bit familiar. "Did you steal my pen?" he barked at a tourist. There's a fine line between being warm and inviting and being too familiar.
Lisa Dyboll
22-Mar-2012
Outstanding food, service and wine. Without doubt the restaurant experience of our recent holiday around South Africa.
Sven Albrecht
12-Mar-2012
A fantastic evening at Jordan Restaurant! The food was great, the choice of the wines - one of the best wines from whole South Africa!
We'll come back as soon as possible!
Sven Albrecht
12-Mar-2012
After 4 visits for lunch we were with 10 people for our first dinner at Jordan restaurant last Friday - unfortunately our last evening in South Africa.
From the first to the last minute an unforgettable experience! Sparkling wine for the sundowner and this fantastic view! The tasting menu was "un poem" from the first course, the service fast but very relaxed and so friendly and the choice of the wines - one of the best in South Africa. Thank you very much to all the people from Jordan Restaurant! Sven and the German group - and we'll come back in October!
Tim
14-Feb-2012
Had a bad service experienced with my wife this afternoon - waiters are not enough at lunch time. Requested salt and pepper - had to wait five minutes, no one asked "how is the food?" Ordered a wrong dessert, we requested to change another one, our waitress refused and she said the restaurant will either charge her or the customer for the wrong order, if I like the other one, I can order another one again. She had a very bad attitude.
I complainted to the manager after I paid my bill, the manager said this is not their restaurant's policy, if the customer's not happy with the food, they will change it.
The front line waitrons must have more customer service training, otherwise no customer will come again.
Geraldine Redfern
14-Feb-2012
A six course set menu which was delightful. The portions were perfectly judged, the service was outstanding and the setting outstanding. Excellent food is alive and well in South Africa!
Marianne Engvall
12-Feb-2012
We now have a new favourite restaurant in the winelands for long lazy Sunday lunches. It is Jordan Restaurant! The whole family, including friends to the children went for the first time this Sunday for a late lunch. We expected fine, but unpretentious, good tasting food, made from the best seasonal produce. And good wines to go with. In a beautiful and relaxed environment. And that is exactly what we had. Plus fantastic service with a smile and one of the best wine knowledge we have had so far. The children were offered steak (done the way we wanted) or fried fish. Served with yummie handcut fries and fresh veggies. Totally good! The rest of us smiled us through mussels in coconut creme Thai style, buffalo mozzarella with grilled figs, loads of fresh bread (couldn't stop eating), awesome osso bucco with polenta, monkfish with porcini veloute made for the gods, porkbelly so tender you could eat it with a spoon. And some extra handcut chips! We had to take an outing to the famous cheese room and came back with four delicious local cheeses and some vintage port. And some ordered the souffle with poppy seeds and vanilla ice cream. All I can say - we'll be back, soon.
Dave Bakker
9-Feb-2012
Had another amazing food and wine experience last night at Jordan with some good friends. Thanks and well done to George, Louise and staff.
