Olives & Plates Embassy Towers — Restaurant in Gauteng

Sometimes when you want to have breakfast, the last thing you need is to go to a shopping centre or mall as its just too busy.

Luckily Embassy Olives & Plates is available for you to venture into at the Embassy Towers just off Rivonia Road near Discovery's headoffice.

It's situated on the ground floor, a reasonable sized space with inside and outside seating and the same elegance and service as other branches. Except their "Cake table" is nothing like Olives & Plates Hyde Park🫒 🍽

We had their Shakshuka (Eggs poached in a sauce of vine tomatoes, onion, garlic, red peppers, aubergine and middle eastern spices topped with avo and served with red pepper), my eggs were a bit overdone as i asked for medium so no runny eggyolk. But I was so full after finishing that meal. I was done for the day, no space for any cake.

Canadian French toast (Brioche sandwich, pan fried with cheese & mustard served with maple bacon) looked amazing 😍

And the Bacon, Chipotle, Mayo and creamy Avocado Toast. This is Smashed creamy avocado with chipotle mayo, bacon, topped with roasted heirloom tomatoes and smoked chilli oil served with fresh arugula.

Drinks, we just had Coffees, and I tried the Hot Chocolate as it was a bit nippy in the morning.

Our waiter Themba was so sweet and patient with us as we were all catching up and chatting away before finally making a decision on breakfast items.

Definitely a nice slightly hidden spot to just go sit and enjoy a meal. Great selection of food and drinks...

Pleasantly surprised! We went there for lunch on 19 December 2018. The decor is tasteful and modern with art pieces in the entrance and foyer. Presentation of the food (main courses) is top class and pleasing on the eye. Standard lunch type meals varies between R90 and R140. I highly recommend the Deconstructed Souvlaki. A beautifully presented fun meal for someone that generally enjoy meze platters and sharing concepts (all on your own plate this time!). The Parmesan Crusted Chicken Breast With Herb Cream Cheese is good choice for someone that enjoys chicken breast meals (I had this meal on recommendation but will opt for something else next time purely because I believe there are more exciting meals waiting to be explored on the menu and you can always have chicken breast at home rather . . .) Heard some good reviews from the table about the No Carb Burger for anyone that are sensitive towards the carbohydrates that come with a bread bun - on this item it gets replaced with portobello mushrooms.

Desserts are chosen from the glass display cabinet. Similar to any chain coffee shop - nothing special. They cut a slice and it gets served . . .

Staff I will score a 3 out of 5. Got my drink order wrong twice (gin with dry lemon) and they don't communicate with confidence (a little bit of extra training can fix that easily) Overall a lovely venue for a relaxed lunch in the...

Went for our year-end function. While my food was fantastic (salmon salad), one of my colleagues received the wrong burger and both colleagues who ordered the fish and chips found it to be dry and the crust too hard (presumably overcooked). Although the restaurant was fairly busy, it was not full so there really was no excuse for the incredibly slow service and long wait times. Our waiter barely checked on us and did not seem terribly interested in actually being of service. We constantly had to remind him of missing items such as cups of coffee we ordered and ice for our drinks. We ordered 5 slices of cake for desert. They took ages to arrive and, by the time they did, we were missing 1 slice of cake and they had bought a completely different cake for my colleague to the one she ordered. We were informed that the cake she ordered had since been given to another table (no surprise as it had been about half an hour) and instead of asking her to choose a different one, they just picked for her. My slice of cake finally arrived about the time everyone else was finishing theirs. Very...