Top Restaurants in Century City
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Century City Food Guide: 10 Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Century City
Discover the best restaurant in Century City, South Africa including Magica Roma, The Test Kitchen, La Rocca, The Pot Luck Club, De Grendel Restaurant, Dale's Black Angus Grill, Knife Restaurant, Cattle Baron, Cape Town Fish Market, John Dory's Century City
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1. Magica Roma
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 352 reviews
Reviewed By Jelswiss - Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland
As always fabulous, never a disappointment food service atmosphere are perfect ! Have been going for years now and just had another wonderful experience Etzio is the perfect front of house and owner with Franco in the kitchen. Wine list is excellent always a pleasure to visit and dine in this splendid restaurant in such a funny location,can't wait to go back! Quality is
kept up to scratch.
2. The Test Kitchen
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1 reviews
Reviewed By k3bab - England
Booking process needs changing. They release bookings once every few months, 3 months ahead at 8AM South African time. Travelling from the UK, I tried to secure a booking within 2 hours of them releasing an allocation to no avail. It was completely booked out.
How about - release them gradually, giving people a better chance to book. This is a restaurant, not an Apple store, not everyone wants to camp out overnight to be first in line to be relieved of their cash, before the proprietor runs out of stock, or in this case, booking allocations.
Website says, e-mail for lunch Reservations. Upon e-mailing you get an auto responder saying bookings over e-mail will not be accepted.
A restaurant is not just about food, it is about the overall experience, and if you can't even get a table, the experience sucks right from the outset.
3. La Rocca
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 89 reviews
Reviewed By Ardementozo - Muscat Governorate, Oman
We had our lunch at La Rocca, the restaurant is located in Canal Walk Mall (only one branch in South Africa). The restaurant offer free Margarita Pizza on Thursdays!, Come here for Halal compliant food experience and great choices!
4. The Pot Luck Club
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By smaatje - Maastricht, The Netherlands
We went here for a 'goodbye dinner' after three months of cape Town. What was supposed to be the best dinner of our time in South Africa turned out to be a rather overpriced and underperforming dinner.
There is nothing 'wrong' with the dishes, but for a restaurant that pretends to be the best of CT and charges prices to back that up, the food lacks balance and variety. Instead of focusing on the food and the absolute flavor they seem to go for 'trendy and hip'. I don't see why a highly priced bite-sized dish comes in a paper wrap and cardboard box, unless this adds something to the flavor (which it doesn't).
The food is comparable to places that charge much less and worse to places that charge similar prices.
To me it feels this place has hit its peak a while ago and now is riding on their reputation, instead of building a new one.
There is not one dish that stood out. If I had to choose it would be the beef fillet, but even that is nothing special.
Service is ok, waiters seem to have memorized the dishes but are clearly not passionate about the food and lack the ability to really explain the Delicacy or complexity of a dish.
If they would charge 1/5th of the price they would have gotten five stars. But for a restaurant that claims to be the best there is a lot that needs to be improved.
Note: I've been in cape Town over 15 months and have visited dozens of restaurants.
5. De Grendel Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 524 reviews
Reviewed By Sue S - Waterlooville, United Kingdom
Fine dining at its best with even better views! Just returned from lunch and cannot praise this place enough. The staff, food and spectacular views are all incredible. Delightfully delicious and served with such smiles. Loved the fact that you could view all the chefs (there were many) all doing their thing in the kitchen. Going back next week for more experience. LOVED it, thanks!
6. Dale's Black Angus Grill
Overall Ratings
4 based on 264 reviews
Reviewed By Marc W - Mbabane
Had dinner. Steak was excellent. Atmosphere was nice and relaxed. Waitress took time to do a good job. Well worth it thank you
7. Knife Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 250 reviews
Reviewed By yusuf r - Johannesburg, South Africa
If you require fine dining, with an experience, Knife restaurant should top your list.
Nestled in the stunning crystal towers hotel, if offers a unique experience.
The cuisine is delicately matched and the staff are helpful.
It’s existence for almost a decade attests to the standard and quality of their meals.
Waste no time. Head there.
8. Cattle Baron
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 52 reviews
Reviewed By CTnicoleH - Cape Town, South Africa
The service at this branch of Cattle Baron is dreadful. Our waitress seem to struggle with English, got multiple orders wrong and we waited exceptionally long between orders. Waiters were talking loudly across the room to each other while serving us our drinks, which is just rude and inappropriate. The steaks were well-prepared and we enjoyed all the sides ordered, other than the "mushroom" sauce (which is literally thick white sauce with a couple diced mushrooms stirred through). Overall the food is on par with other Cattle Barons but the service (and old, worn decor) has cost them more than a few customers, I'm sure.
9. Cape Town Fish Market
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 110 reviews
Reviewed By PieterM88 - South Africa
I'm from Durban on holiday visiting Cape town fish market in canal walk Cape Town.My experience not good at all,service not up to standard sushi definitely not the same as Gateway UmhlangaHi there, we're sorry to hear that you had a bad experience at our Canal Walk store, would you mind sending your contact details and a copy of this review to [email protected] so that we can be in touch. The CTFM Team
10. John Dory's Century City
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 84 reviews
Ahoy Me Mateys! Join us at John Dory's - the best seafood restaurant that the whole family can enjoy! Our menu has an ocean of choices for all our seafood lovers! From fresh hand-rolled sushi to tempura battered fish & chips. Shiver your timbers! Our catch of the day, prawns, calamari and fresh oysters are a reason to abandon ship and come ashore! Our kids' menu has a variety of yummy meals for our young mateys too and we also have a cool kids' play area with boatloads of fun activities for little sailors! What are you waiting for? Dock your boat at John Dory's for arrr-mazing food and service.
Reviewed By Norman1501
The food was sitting firever on the belt. You could seee that all the fish on top of the sushi was already dry and ther was an unpleasant smell of old frying oil in the restaurant. Not the best sushi i have ever had but the staff was nice and friendly
