Jonathan Davies is a chef and restaurant consultant from the Crown Hotel Group (The Crown at Whitebrook, best restaurant in Wales last year, is one of theirs) who will be opening the new fine dining restaurant on De Grendel wine estate in Durbanville in March. Jono declared war on Cape Town restaurant prices this afternoon noting that “R80 for a Spur burger is mad. Cape Town restaurant prices are so crazy, many of my friends are self-catering and eating at home.”

The new De Grendel restaurant will offer a six course (actually eight) tasting menu including wine for R600. “Carefull sourcing/saucing keeps our prices down and we’ll give La Colombe a run for their money, but not at their prices.”