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Grill Room a fine dining experience
ETHIENNE ARENDS
THE Grill Room, situated within the
beautiful Premier Hotel Regent, offers
great sea views and a New Yorkinspired
contemporary steakhouse with
great food.
Meat-lovers would be happy to know
that the restaurant ages its own beef
after it is sourced from local farmers.
All fresh beef is aged for at least a
few days and up to several weeks, to
allow enzymes naturally present in the
meat, to break down the muscle tissue,
resulting in improved texture and
f l av o u r.
Besides the steaks, the Grill Room
also offers delicious speciality dishes
for every tastebud.
My girlfriend Bernie and I, enjoyed
our second outing to the restaurant –
and once again enjoyed the tasty and
fresh food on offer.
For starters, I had the chicken livers
peri-peri that is flambéed in brandy and
comes with a creamy sauce with fresh
garlic and rosemary-infused bread – fo r
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R65. Bernie had the crumbed and
deep-fried camembert served with a
cranberry sauce and figs that cost R75.
Bernie’s starter was light but tasty
with the fig and cranberry working
wonders with the cheese.
My chicken livers were awesome, the
type of meal I want to have at least
once-a-week; and the serving was not
small, so it was like a whole meal for
me.
For mains, Bernie went with the Grill
Room’s “famous espatada” which are
chunks of rump steak, (chicken an
option too) served with garlic, bay
leaves and salt, and that is basted with
a sherry sauce skewed over hot coals –
at a cost of R155. The 400g of sticky
pork ribs was my meal of choice but the
waiter insisted I have 600g for R165 –
SMARTT MOVE: CMR (Christelike Maatskaplike Raad) volunteer Celia Theart, lef t,
and CMR house mother Gill Hogg help Margaret Bebeze at the new charity shop in
Nahoon
Picture: QHAMANI LINGANI
and it was so delicious and
melt-in-your-mouth stuff, that I wasn’t
sorry I had the extra.
To share, we had the best cream
spinach I had ever tasted and a rich and
delicious creamy biltong and cheese
sauce. The meal truly hit the spot with
the stars of the show the steak skewers
that were simply flavoured, with the bay
leaves working a treat.
For dessert, we both opted for crème
brûlée with vanilla ice-cream which was
decadent, smooth and not overly sweet;
just my kind of dessert.
If you’re not feeling that peckish, you
can also head over to the Grill Room to
relax and enjoy a wide variety of select
drinks, from fine wines to premium
malts and liqueurs, which are also
paired with your selection of prime cut
DELECTABLE TREAT: The Grill Room on the East London beachfront is an upmarket
New York-type steakhouse that offers great food and sea views. BOTTOM: The
peri-peri chicken livers was a creamy starter full of flavour, an offering that one
can easily have once a week
Picture: ETHIENNE ARENDS
meat. It is a fine-dining steakhouse that
also offers salmon and prawns if you
are not in the mood for the steaks, lamb
shank, braised oxtail or the ribs (lamb,
beef and pork available).
Desserts such as the crêpe Suzette
and cherries jubilee that will be
flambéed at the table or as close to the
table as possible, to create that extra bit
of excitement and flair, will be one of
the attractions.
The Grill Room provides a warm and
intimate environment with a traditional
yet upmarket steakhouse feel.
CMR shop needs more hands on deck
QHAMANI LINGANI
WITH CMR (Christelike M a at s k a p l i ke
Raad or Christian Social Services)
officially opening their charity shop in
Nahoon last week, there is still a lot to
be done and CMR needs the public's
a s s i st a n c e .
The welfare organisation, which was
established in 1955, runs a safe house
for abused women, an extensive home
food security programme and offers
child protection, foster care and
adoption services.
“We had a great opening day and
first few days. We had some donations
coming in as well and so we are busy
daily unpacking new stock. There is
still a lot to be done. We want to get
some more shelving and develop our
book section. We need someone with
librarian skills to actually manage the
section,” said CMR manager Gaye
M o o n i e ya .
Moonieya said people have asked if
they will also be opening a coffee
shop.
“We need to think about it. I
remember a place called The Well in
London next to the Victoria Bus
Station that was a charity shop cum
coffee shop and it worked well.
“But we desperately need more
volunteers and hands on deck to sort
and price donations, as well as man
the till,” she added.
CMR has a new website where you
can find out more about the
organisation: www.cmrel.co.za and a
Facebook page, “CMR East London”,
where more news about the shop and
their other activities will be posted
“Just a reminder to people that
there is parking around the back as
you turn into Smartt Road – there is a
little shopping centre where people
can park and come through our back
entrance. We hope our store signs will
be up soon but that has not stopped
people from finding us,” she said.
Moonieya also said that all
donations are welcome and if people
are need someone to fetch, they are
happy to do that.
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