If you follow the romantic lamps on the water’s edge at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront you arrive at a terrace with dreamy views of Table Bay and Table Mountain. While Belthazar Restaurant, Wine Bar & Grill is known as something of a theatre of fine food and wine with their “largest wine-by-the-glass bar in the world”, they also deliver with a consistent standard of excellence.
This has seen the venue snap up a TripAdvisor 2016 Certificate of Excellence, plus they’ve once again been honoured for their outstanding dedication to wine in Wine Spectator’s 2016 Restaurant Wine List Awards.
Being a seaside restaurant it’s a no-brainer that seafood is a top priority, and Belthazar imports all its prawns and langoustines from Mozambique. Extravaganzas include a Royal Seafood Platter for Two, including a whole crayfish, two large langoustines, six medium langoustines, two tiger giant prawns, 2 tiger medium prawns, two king prawns and four queen prawns – perfectly prepared and served with lemon butter, garlic butter and per-peri sauce.
The venue’s festive season delights also includes new dishes:
Goulash Soup – traditional rich beef soup
Tabbouleh Salad – trad Lebanese salad made with finely chopped parsley and mint, tomatoes, onions, bulgar wheat and lemon
Sauce Steaks 250g and 350g – grain-fed fillet, flambéed in brandy and topped with one of 8 sauces – peppercorn, choc chilli, red wine, monkey gland, mushroom, blue cheese, béarnaise or garlic
Belthazar Premium Burger – a beef and chicken burger topped with avocado and double cheese and all the trimmings
Prawn Curry – 8 queen prawns in a traditional Northern Indian spicy tomato, cashew nut and cream sauce served with basmati rice
Steamed Fennel or Broccoli – served with a drizzle of lemon butter
Trio of Halawa – plain, chocolate and pistachio – a crystallised sesame seed delicacy
A vinoteque with sought-after rare vintages
Belthazar’s innovative nitrogen-infused wine-by-the-glass bar serves up to 250 of the Cape’s finest wines by the glass, and sommeliers advise on a wine-list of up to 600 fine wines and sought-after rare vintages. The wines are professionally stored in a designer vinoteque and served in Riedel glassware. The wine list is compiled by the Slick Restaurant Group’s André Lourens.
The venue’s new all-weather dining enclosure on the terrace was launched in October and is equipped with a mist cooling system and heaters and offers panoramic views of the Waterfront.
Where: Belthazar Restaurant, Wine Bar & Grill, Shop 153, Victoria Wharf, V&A Waterfront
Info: E-mail contact@slickrestaurants.com, http://www.belthazar.co.za/
Loyalty bonus: Join the Slick Restaurant Group Loyalty programme and receive 10% of the bill total credited to your card, redeemable at any Slick Restaurant, plus a R200 birthday voucher
Open: Daily from noon until late. Booking advised
Book: 021 421 3753/6
GPS: Lat: -33.903019 Long: 18.422188
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