
It feels like ages since I’ve written a restaurant review. This Waterfront blogging gig really took over. I have some negative reviews to share with you but thought I would start with a positive one first. We’re all struggling a little with post World Cup depression so we don’t need more negativity.
The Kove and Bungalow opened a while back, under the same ownership as Paranga and Pepenero. While Kove remains, Bungalow has been converted into an Italian restaurant called Zenzero recently. I was invited to come and check it out, which I did last night.
While Bungalow was very summery in white and light blue, Zenzero is warmer in cream and brown with softer lighting. The restaurant actually has two sections, an inside section and an outside section. While the inside section has been transformed into a warmer place, the outside section is still catering for summer with white couches and wooden chairs. When we went it was freezing cold and the inside section was half full but the outside section was, for obvious reasons, empty. It’s modern, contemporary Italian, more in the style of Il Leone than your neighbourhood trattoria.
We chose the table closest to the faux fire, which in the end got the better of us and we had to retreat to another table to enjoy our desserts otherwise we would have overheated. While we perused the menu, our waitress brought us each a roll, accompanied by olives, chopped up tomato with herbs and some cubes of fresh parmesan cheese. It was all good quality stuff and a pleasant change from the plain old roll with butter.
Zenzero is open breakfast, lunch and supper. I had a quick peek at the breakfast and lunch menus. The breakfast options are fairly standard with an English breakfast going for R55 and omlettes ranging from R50 to R70. The lunch menu offers tramezzinis, also ranging from R50 to R70. The fillings are a bit more interesting than normal; the chorizo and artichoke caught my eye. I’m sure the dinner options are available at lunch time too.
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