The Royale — Restaurant in Gauteng

I'd always heard of people talk about this "Royale" & I've never been till Thursday night (3rd March) with some friends. The place was hosting an event called STRICTLY SOUL by DJ Akio. It was dope! The place is lovely, the deco is cute, but it was obvious buzzing & with reason. I honestly had the best time at that event. The music was old school RnB & Pop which is very very refreshing in the kind of music era we're living in. People were so happy & having lots of fun singing along - I for one was SWEATING & screaming out all the lyrics I knew. There's a second bar around the back of the venue decorated in Flying Fish's colours etc. The only critique I'd give the venue is for them to have more barmen there. There was only one guy serving us at that bar & it was quite boring to wait so long to get served. The sound in that room is also incredibly frustrating, the speaker is muffled & you can barely hear what's playing. I had to go to the main dance floor to enjoy the music & that sucks cause my friends were chilling in that specific room. Either than that, I wouldn't fault the place. Management, please fix that speaker? You absolutely cannot have such terrible sound playing in a venue - rather have silence instead 😂 I definitely give Akio & STRICTLY SOUL a solid 10/10 for good, non-pretentious vibes. Everyone one needs to attend a STRICTLY SOUL, you would love it. Especially if you were born in the...

Previously said the food was nice but honestly it's just very basic at this point. Crumbed chicken and even the cauliflower one are bland as heck and they just give simple garlic sauce with them. The burgers are just ok but the price they charge is simply ridiculous for the quality you're getting. The squid is likewise bland and the portion size is so small yet the price is SO expensive for something small and tasteless... The chicken wings as well used to be massive portion and now it seems they've halved it and the price has gone up. And like I get it prices increases are expected but how much they give and the quality is just not up to scratch. There's restaurants around in the same area with better food and similar or lower prices. The atmosphere is great especially on quiz nights, I don't know if the owners decide to skimp on food portions on quiz nights so maybe that's what's happening. But Service also is usually pretty good with...

Went to this place for the 2nd time and again we were disappointed.

Waitress had no idea what she was doing and took 20min to tell me that they don’t have Hot chocolate and then another half an hour to tell me that there is no Grapetizer.

This is an amazing place, but just for vibes with your friends… cocktail tastes watered down and food is not good at all and is over spiced and items doesn’t go well together.

Staff is not trained at all and Barman does not know how to put a decent or basic cocktail together… As for the management of the establishment is really pathetic or none existent … we sat there for 2 hours and not once was there a person of authority to check on any patrons…

Today we had a waffle as we were feeling for something sweet, but it was hard and the pan they used was very dirty.

Really not happy about as this place has a lot...