Crystal Restaurant

Venue: Crystal Restaurant
Century City - The Protea Hotel Colosseum) Crystal, Century City
http://www.dining-out.co.za/member_details-MemberID-1659.html

Tel No: 021 526 4000

Date: Friday, 28th November

Time: 7pm

Organiser: Janine

Patrons: Janine, Nadine, Walter, Chris, Fiona, Gathry, Vannessa, Lucy

Other: This is a Trendy spot, so dress up if you dare ...
Crystal restaurant is situated in the new urban luxury hotel, Protea Hotel Colosseum, finalist of the Business Resort of the Year, Africa Investor Awards 2008.
Two-storey windows, chic interiors, the Cape Town city skyline, Table Mountain and the pièce de résistance, our three meter genuine Swarovski crystal chandelier. This is Crystal - synonymous with excellence, elegance and ambience Our menu changes with the seasons and includes a number of themes: the vegetable garden, the sea, the farm, the veld, the fynbos. From the mountains to the sea - our colourful dishes reflect local flavours which are basic and strong, but also sweet tastes, sun drenched, heavy and rich, smelling of the earth. Flavours are predominant in our dishes hence the lack of creamy sauces and the liberal use of jus in our preparation. The menu is detailed to let you envisage and pre-taste the dishes At Crystal your event is yours to create. From tapas to cocktail parties to elegant 3 course meals, we can accommodate any of your private party needs with sleek sophistication & professionalism.

Reviews:

- Great frozen margarita with salted rim. Belgium chocolate dessert was a bargain, well presented and fed everyone. Fantastic chandelier - very pretty & crystal:-)

- Lucy finally turned and joined me in having dessert 1st!!! :-) The rest will soon follow hahahah:-)

- Norwegian salmon pretty good. Service a bit slow. Very good entertainment, but it was in table, nothing to do with the restaurant!!

- No Pole!! Bo Kaap vis was baie lekker.

- It was good! Beef was a bit dry. Will only know by tomorrow how the ostrich is.

- Chips from mixed grill was also very nice but won't be able to comment on the chops. Coffee sounds bubbly.

- Crystal chandelier looked beautiful especially when the last rays of day light flickered over the crystals. Food was excellent - too much egg plant in the starter but char grilled chicken was wonderful. Waiting for really good coffee!! Happy Cat!!

- Confirmed that coffee is good. Interesting, nice cups. German nut biscuits good.

And from Lucy : these sure are a lot of comments for such a little groupie attending this dinner hey.... maybe it's got to do with some people disappearing for shooters every half hour:-)

Eastwoods Entertainment Lounge

Venue: Eastwoods Entertainment Lounge - Tyger Valley

Address: Shop 15, Tyger Manor Centre, 25 Willie van Schoor Ave, Tyger Valley

Tel: 021 919 9622

Date: Friday 7 November 2008

Time: 7:30pm

Organiser: Nadine

Patrons: Lucy, Mike, Derren, Nadine, Craig, Ana Rita, Janine, Vannessa, Gathry

Review:

- Our fish was crap - the patrons were very entertaining. Tiger lady woke up everyone.

- Lamb shank was ok. Not the best I've had but very tender. Service not too bad.

- Take a table from Spur, put it in the middle of the dance floor at Kudeta or some such club. Delete the dorky happy-clappy waiters, and you have Eastwoods. Typical Spur food, but no conversation due to auditory assault. At least I could watch the cricket...

- Nothing spectacular. too loud music for the "old" people. "Interesting" people to watch.