Bukhara, Cape Town

Lamb at Bukhara costs R940 a kilo.......the portion that i received was no more than a 100grams for R94....plus i had to pay for the rice.........I spent 3 months in India...from Mumbai down to Goa...Hampi...Kerala...Agra...Delhi...and numerous other cities.......so my standard for indian food will always relate to my experiences in India........I always find a problem with the price of Asian food in Western Countries and the portions are to small........and the food is never hot....never ever hot.......always tepid from standing in bain maries.....anyway back to Bukhara where lamb costs a mere R940 a kilo and where my compatriots make a meal of there complimentary poppadoms...for goodness sake it is a couple of bites and over......but no they make a ritual of it.....smearing it with the accompanying sauces and spending a half an hour eating it.....My lamb was tepid and overpriced...the rice was equally tepid and my nans were cold........I've eaten better curry bunnies in Durban that were tastier and far better priced....Please please Cape Town find restaurants where the food is served with love and the pricing is fair......not these over priced over rated ripoff restaurants

Nelsons Eye, Hof Street

This was my second visit...my firstbeing six years ago....the only thing that has changed is the smell...it reminds me more of an old age home sort of smell.....mothballish. Was the food good....well what can I say steak is steak is steak......could be more flavoursome...the accompanying packet spinach and sugar sweetened pumpkin is old school.......very old school....I agree retro is back but imagination at Nelsons Eye is lacking.........Dutch friends of mine said that they make chips the way they like them........now I know to burn them just like Nelsons Eye the next time I cook for them......oh one more thing.......the prices are whacked......R42 for a soup..R64 for a salad.....and R45 for a creme brule......that's when I decided eat dessert here or go to the Engen around the corner.......needless to say the Engen won.......overall what did I think of the Nelsons Eye.....maybe I'll return in six years to see if it smells different

Five Flies, Keerom Street

I'm beginning to wonder if there are any restaurants in Cape Town that can live up to their supposed reputations. I found the food at Five Flies to be bland.......I have eaten food in pubs that have a similar style but yet tasted a thousand times better. I had a smoked salmon starter...which a chef cannot really mess up because all the chef does is plate it......my T bone was bland...bland ....bland.....the so called cream based sauce did not exist.......I tasted my partners lamb which was tender but tasteless and the watery lumpy mash that accompanied it was disgusting....my creme Brule was better than the savoy cabbage......but was it from a packet??............please......please can someone direct me to a good restaurant.............and what is it with waiters holding pepper grinders over you as if black pepper is a rare commodity.....all i can say is w t f!!!!!!!

Cafe 55, Kloof Street

I would have eaten here.......................had the waiter taken my order..............he ummed and aahed.........i tried to get his attention on five occassions.........i paid for my coffee and left..............please get a waiter that understands english.............will i go back..................no

Mao, Cape Town

Overall Mao was not to bad.......I only wish tha t the portions were reversed..............the soups lingered on toooooo long and my pork belly was tooooo little although the sweetness was toooooooo much.......the mao beer from Ireland was toooooo pricy otherwise it wasn't tooooo bad