Zietsies 

Set menus are announced by the owner, Elsabe Zietsman, in a suitably theatrical manner. Starts may be fresh sweetcorn and ginger soup served piping hot with baby shrimp, followed by pasta with homemade pesto, flash-fried cocktail tomatoes and pecorino. A Malibu and pawpaw granita palate cleanser is sheer brilliance. Main courses are served buffet style, and may include decadently juicy free-range chicken and sirloin and rump pie. Apple and caramel sponge cake with lemon syrup for dessert is heavenly.

Bring your own. Alternatively, you might have to beg a drop of chef Agnes Mabaso who uses Diemersfontein and sherry in her killer lamb knuckle stew.

The ladies that cook, clean and sing also wait suavely on the tables. Take a stroll through the neighbouring park, which is funded and maintained by this delightful group of people with huge hearts.

This is a gem of a restaurant, perched high on the Auckland Park hills under the Brixton tower, offers entertainment, food, views, heart-warming care and compassion for humanity. You feel like royalty dining in a glass box. Live entertainment, provided by Elzabé Zietsman herself or talented pianist Rocco de Villiers, is an incomparable highlight.

Zietsman also founded the ‘Doilie Club’ to fund the tuition of young aspiring musicians and actors, so you’ll be supporting not only a great restaurant, but also a good cause. (HF, October 2011)

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