Monthly Dinner Club

This is a blogspot which will serve as a Restaurant Review for our Monthly Dinner Club. We are based in Cape Town and have visited restaurants since January 2001. Each month, one of the Organisers selects a new restaurant with the only rule being that it is not allowed to be a venue that the Monthly Dinner Club or one of the Organisers have frequented before.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Pepenero

Name: Pepenero

Tel No & Address: No. 1, Two Oceans Beaches Bay Road Mouille Point Cape Town 8001
http://www.dining-out.co.za/member_details.asp?MemberID=2873

Date Visited: 31 March 2007 at 7:30pm

Organised By: Fiona

Patrons: Carl, Clarissa, Nadine, Gathry, Vannessa, Anne-Marie, Lucy, Janine, Carol, Anthony, Chris, Fiona, Mike

Reviews:
- Prawn Linguine was tasty & good value for money compared with Gathry's meal.

- Brushetta starter was nice. Roasted garlic risotto more sticky & like mash (but then I've never had risotto before, so what do I know)...

- DW Method minus one. Tuna was good, but the atmosphere a little too pretentious for me...

- Take your own torch with. Starter (crayfish cocktail) very nice. Risotto not so great.

- Ladies and gentelmen... Pepenero presents... the most boring / bland / ungarlicky roasted garlic creamy pasta ever. We can forgive the waiter forgeting glasses with the drinks order or missing the order all together but MISREPRESENTATION.... FORGIVE... NEVER!!!

- Chicken stuffed with spinach, feta & garlic was tasty, but the fact that they forgot my salad and so many other people's orders around me was rather disapointing. Poor show for such an 'upmarket' restaurant.

- The stuffed chicken is really good. Nice taste, nice size, worth the wait? Not really. If the food arrived before my stomach went into withdrawal, it would have been excellent. Poor waiter was a bit confused and 'absent'.

- Canneloni was excellent. Portion was sufficient. Mussels tasted like the sea not creamy enough. Osso Buco, very little for the price but very tasty.

- Prawns was good. Love the taps in the bathroom:-) Bring your torch as disco lights are not very good on the eys.

- Bland, Bland, Bland!!! this place should be converted to strip show club with the dim lighting and cushioned cubicles.

- Waiter not bad.