Comments on: Headquarters review

By: Dax

Dax — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:26:07 +0000

I ate at HQ again last night and my review is the same. It was a great meal, but not the best steak you’ll eat.

I have no problem recommending people eat there. The overseas visitor I had with me was very happy.

It did cost R300 each for the meal and a shared bottle of wine though.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:36:54 +0000

After whiskey festival we decided that steak was the way to. Be to HQ many times but only for drinks &snacks, but was dying to try their steak.
Now, as an ardent carnivore, not soiling my plate with a hint of green decor is good thing. Even the pseudo MacD pomfries are secondary, steak me baby…well…

Let’s just say I was spectacularly underwhelmed.
For all intents and purposes I paid R140 x 2 for quiet tough and largely tasteless sirloin. Had a nibble of a steak roll at the whiskey fest (@R25) which was tastier and more tender. Now, when your charging me an effective R560.00 per kilogram for steak, as the rest was granish/trimmings, I expect you to rock my carnivorous stomach…apparently not.

Now my friend was trying it out before taking his lady out for a rocking steak,while me being married to a vegetarian was hoping to experience a night of carnivorous liberation…we’ll we can’t always get what we hope for.

Mentioned this to the Caveau (always good) manager/chef and received empathy .

Oh well, Nelsons Eye, Hussar, Famous Dead Animal Disectors Grill, here I come.

If you’re going to bleed me, make sure it’s out the middle of my steak and not the middle of my wallet.

Just saying….

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:11:58 +0000

What put me off from this place, the first time we went we were standing at the bar having drink when my wife felt something on her foot. Upon looking down she found a monster cockroach run up her pant leg!! We will never go back because of this and I advise no one else to either!

By: Dax

Dax — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:52:21 +0000

That’s interesting, especially as the long list of ingredients above doesn’t include egg.

Lucky your friend asked!

By: Signe

Signe — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:35:14 +0000

Re. the HQ Cafe de Paris butter – we recently discovered that they use egg in theirs, when an egg-allergic friend asked the right question and then had to send her steak back and request it dry. And I don’t think she enjoyed her steak as much as the rest of us; it may be true that their entire secret is in the sauce.

By: poppy

poppy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:05:46 +0000

I had dinner at HQ last saturday and was dissapointed. I think the only thing that rescues the place is the novelty of the concept. My steak was dry, overcooked and tough (i ordered it medium rare), and considering that it is the only item on the menu, i am baffled as to why they don’t do it well. Mcdonald style frozen fried does’nt cut it in my opinion, i mean how difficult is it to make them? The salad was however, tasty and fresh, but at R400 for two people having only ordered 1 cocktail each, I wont be back in a Hurry. The nelsons eye is BY FAR the BEST steak in Cape town – HQ does’nt even come close!!

By: Leanne

Leanne — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:19:30 +0000

you’re right about the small allocation of Sauvignon Blanc! The food was good and it is a novelty, but not being the world’s biggest steak eater, and prefering mine with a pepper sauce – i’m not sure i’ll go there again soon. The lounge for drinks is lovely though. Also the caveau deli and bar in the courtyard is really buzzing these days – especially on Friday afternoons – the best part is that it’s out of the wind!