Coobs — Restaurant in Gauteng

There's nothing simple about the simplicity of the hake and chips at Coobs: delicately crispy battered hake with bitter microgreens and chips.

This is the only tartar sauce that I've ever enjoyed (they're usually too bracing for my palate). It's made with a doubly creamy homemade mayonnaise infused with lime zest that makes the whole dish sing.

So perfect that you will want a second helping.

They'll offer you tomato sauce with your meal but just say no unless you have the epicurean tastes of a five-year-old.

You can never have enough chocolate, so Coobs serves their dark chocolate torte with pulled chocolate, roasted chocolate ganache, and a chocolate sorbet. Then they add candied beetroot and a miso caramel because what is a dessert unless excessive?

The chocolate sorbet sounds like a contradiction but it is quite refreshing without losing the rich flavour of chocolate.

There's an elusive hint of spiciness, possibly cinnamon or chillies, that piques your palate while indulging in so much chocolate in its...

I went here for dinner with a friend, because of the good reviews about the food and the wine. The food was very nice; portions were big enough, price a bit higher than average, but menu was also slightly more original than at the average place. Service was friendly, but ordering a nice wine was a huge disappointment. There were quite a few red wines by the glass (which was nice), but I didn't know any of them, so I decided to ask the waiter for advice. It was obvious he didn't know anything about wine, but pretended to know, instead of asking someone with more knowledge to assist me. So I ended up ordering a wine at random, which is not what I like. Esp in a slightly upmarket place, that is known for their wine list, I expected a lot more and at least be able to get some decent advice on the supposedly nice wines they have. I won't...

So. Best starter ever. Chickenliver Parfeit, complimented be quince jelly, homemade chutney and brioche melba toast. An explosion of taste when the velvety chicken liver parfait hits the tastebuds and then the unexpected surptise of the sickening sweet taste of a miniture white meringue bursts open among the saviury goodness.

Asian Confit Pork belly and crispy pork shoulder served with roast garlic puree, sprout and shoot salad, charred tatsoi ginger jus and purified crackling. Where do I start. Melt in the mouth tender belly then complimented by the crispyness of the shoulder intertwined in the smooth garlic puree, complimented by the sharpness of the ginger jus. A jiurney of taste travelling into one's being. Then the purified crackling. A texture so unexplanable but extremely satisfying and delightful. Absorbing it into a...