Pretoria Restaurants

Hatfield is Pretoria's student quarter, and as any self-respecting budget traveller will know, if you're travelling on a shoestring budget, the best way to eat affordably is to go where the equally impoverished students go!

The main street in Hatfield is pretty well wall-to-wall fast food outlets, cheap restaurants, pubs and nightclubs. Some of the internationally recognised names include Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds, whereas local chains such as Steers, Spur and Nando's are all well represented. There are a number of pizza outlets.

The restaurant itself is a very high standard one, well situated in Arcadia (the typical Embassies' neighborough). If can stand with this, the food is very well prepared, presented and chosen.

Favorite Dish: I had great Karoo lamb, great "Potjie" containing kudu meat; nice ostrich and kudu billtong (dried meat).
The list is larger of course, adn it's worth notiicng that it contains lots of local foods and very little "international" cuisine!

Mt favourite "was" [is still] LA MADELEINE now relocated
=== but here is a change
=== THE PRIDE OF INDIA owned by Kishore Bhima
>>> it has just been voted into SA's top 100 restaurants.
>>>It's PRICEY, aimed at the New influx of International Diplomats

Favorite Dish: examples from menu ( R12 = us$1 )
===Dal Khabila-The black lentil delicacy incorporating tomato and ginger simmered overnight in a traditional clay oven tandoor enriched with cream, butter and a secret blend of spices@R32 or
===Murgh Rogni-
A boneless chicken dish in cinnamon and gravy which is one of the favourite dishes of the Great Mughai Emperor @R42
===Jhinga Tikka Masala-A delightful combination of prawns in a spicy tikka masala sauce@R80

We came here on recomendation from our daughter and her partner, as they had been before and recommended the five course special.
The five course consists of just that, each with a different glass of wine or liquor with each course. It worked out £25 a head which we thought was good value. The portions were enough and everything we ordered we really enjoyed.
The service was excellent and they were very atentive and the surroundings were very relaxed and had a nice atmosphere.

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I loved this little Coffee Shop and would come back again and again if I lived there. My daughter had been here before and she said you'll love this place Mum, and she was right.
It's just outside of Pretoria in a place called Groenkloof. The display counter offers so many tempting cakes and pastries and when you go further in, you well see freshly made quiches, lots of healthy salads and many other delights.
We had a quiche salad and cappuccino's and was not dissapointed, it was really nice and very well presented too. I'm very fussy about my coffee and this came tops with me. The service is excellent and the food. It's only a small shop and it's also made to look quite Englishy too, like a trendy tea shop.
I also brought some herbal tea to take back home to the UK and some cakes to eat at my daughters!

Would really recommend you try this place.........

Squires Hartbeesport

Squires is a franchise steakhouse which offers consistent, reasonably good quality.

The atmosphere was pleasant and the rugby game that was being played was being screened outside. I opted, on an autumn evening, to sit indoors out of the night chill.

The menu is predictable with salads and various meat dishes and has some “gourmet” steaks. There is a vegetarian platter which my escort chose. I had the Supreme Steak which has the steak sliced open and mushrooms and bacon inserted inside. I asked for it medium rare and it arrived somewhat more medium than rare. The vegetarian platter contained, inter alia, tinned asparagus served warm. Ugh! The rest looked ok.

The service was both friendly and efficient and I felt well attended but not smothered.

The pricing of Squires is at the high end of “average”.

Favorite Dish: Steak. I like steak.

This is a very big restaurant with a very extensive menu. The food we had was very good and authentic. Prices are not cheap, but worth the money.
The wine list is not very extensive, but ok. There is also bar in the restaurant.

Favorite Dish: All good

Although it is often voted as one of the top ten restaurants, I do not think that the food is always outstanding.
I had lunch and dinner there quite often, and was dissapointed with times. Still, some good food, but at a price! I suppose you could describe the food as French with some South African ingredients (like springbok etc)
They also hosts groups of tourists.
If you would like to have a fine dining experience, Brasserie de Paris would be a much better choice.

Favorite Dish: Trio of duck