Chef David and Gary also visited Marta, Gotham Bar and Grill, April Bloomfield, Nomad, Union Square Cafe, King Cole Bar, Empire, Gramercy Tavern, Maison Premiere, and Tertulia.Ĭhef David leaves five hundred on 11 December, and opens (with the help of the builders) in March. One of the persons they met with was Danny Meyer, the founder of Eleven Madison Park (but sold in 2011 to Chef Daniel Humm), Union Square Café, and eight other restaurants, some of which have Michelin stars. Whilst he was traveling, he used the hashtag #fire, but he would not provide more detail about what type of cuisine this would represent. I asked him about the food style, but he says that it has not been finalized yet, and therefore he has not yet appointed any staff. He was impressed with how welcoming bar owners were, and how they shared their experience and advice. He and his business partner Gary Kyriacou visited New York last month, for inspiration, focusing on bars, and latest trends in cocktails. The restaurant concept: Chef David told me that a large part of the restaurant will be a bar, where they will ‘spoil their guests’. He told me that they have had to add an extra slab to carry the weight of what is to come above for the restaurant. Driving on Jan Smuts Avenue through Rosebank, I saw only one building with construction work, and in describing it to Chef David, it appears to be the one. The location: Chef David had indicated publicly that the restaurant would be a 250-seater in Rosebank. Whilst guarded about many of the details, he did reveal some information about it. During my dinner at five hundred at The Saxon in Johannesburg last week, I asked Chef David Higgs about his new (as yet unnamed) restaurant.
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