THIS super-trendy restaurant, which has been honoured with a Dine 100 award (Top 10: Everyday Eating) from Wine magazine and Diners Club International, is under new management. At least until the end of 2006, however, and perhaps a bit longer, the menu devised by founder Andrea Burgener and chef Leah Tsonye will be the same.

The food has always been superb. Burgener and Tsonye have a gift for combining elements one would not have thought of, and for seeking out the best. Meat is organic, eggs and chickens are free-range; the new management will keep that commitment. The honey that goes into, for example, fresh mint and ginger tea, and is for sale at the small deli counter, is among the best one can find.

The menu changes according to the season. There are a number of winners: whisky porridge with honey cream for breakfast, the oats soaked in whisky for 24 hours; a range of delicious soups for under R30 - beetroot and orange, or lentil, rosemary, chilli and tomato; mussels in white wine, cream and ginger sauce, or with a Malay curry sauce. And if Deluxe has chocolate brownies on offer, do not hesitate.

Breakfast, served all day, can run from a fruit salad parfait (R18,50) to a brie and sweet chilli omelette (R35); main courses at lunch can cost anything from R32 for an authentic Caesar salad or R45 for fish cakes, up to R58 for game meatballs with bell pepper, baby marrow and couscous, or R68 for the mussels; and desserts are generally under R20, even for such delights as baked lemon cheesecake.

Although the décor is the same, for the moment - formica-topped kitchen tables and mismatched chairs inside the restaurant and, on the sun-filled dining deck, much-scrubbed wooden tables - Deluxe has been freshened up with a new paint job. And there is now one crucial addition to the staff: a manager, André Theron.

44 Stanley Avenue East, Milpark
Telephone: 011 482 7795
Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9am-4.30pm