THE menu at this award-winning restaurant comprises starters, salads and pasta, because the main courses are set out as specials, which change according to the season and what the chef decides to offer.

Janine Walker in Eat Out magazine mentions pan-fried calf brains in a sage-infused cream sauce, which gives some idea of the haute cuisine one finds there. Other specials range from Scottish salmon on a cushion of oven-roasted beetroot and crusted with sesame seeds, to char-grilled veal cutlet gratinated with gorgonzola and thyme.

The restaurant, which has been around since 1993, garnered an Award of Excellence on the 2005 Diners Club International Winelist of the Year, one of only three Johannesburg restaurants to make that elevated grade. (The others were Browns in Rivonia and Yum in Greenside.)

For starters, prices range from R35 to R80 (the latter for foie gras); main dishes are from R45 for pasta to R90 for a fillet with truffles; and desserts from R21 to R35.

Hobart and Grosvenor Roads, Bryanston
Telephone: 011 463 4199
Hours: Lunch Sunday and Monday 12-2.30pm; dinner Tuesday-Saturday from 7pm