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Trendy new JHB restaurant
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Main business Wine talk: Red, white, Sweet sensations sparkling & bubly
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The light side of things Salads Green salad with fennel, rocket, cress, baby chard and sugar snaps
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Charred vegetable salad with brinjal, zucchini, peppers, grilled artichokes haloumi, and balsamic honey mustard
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Chopped salad with lentils, barley, chickpeas, coriander, feta and mint with a lemon oil dressing
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Moroccan beef salad with butter and lambs lettuce, toasted dukkah and spicy lemon preserve, pangrattato and dried sour cherries
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Hot smoked salmon salad with lettuce, capers, crème fraiche, avo and toasted sunflower seed
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Cajun rubbed roast chicken salad with grilled peppers, zucchini, avo, feta roast crispy potato and red onion with a star anis and white wine vinaigrette
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Seared tuna salad with greens, nori, candied ginger and a miso sake dressing
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Chicken ceasar with bacon, soft coddled egg, Romain lettuce, parmesan and garlic croûtons
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Biltong and blue cheese salad with avo, soft caramelized butternut toasted pumpkin seeds and Gorgonzola dressing
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Rocket, pear and goats cheese salad with a sprinkle of toasted seeds, honey, balsamic, mustard, yellow peppers and beetroot
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Sandwiches Roast veg sandwich with humus, pesto, grilled artichokes, roast peppers, grilled bringel and buffalo mozzarella
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Seared fillet steak sandwich with sauted mushrooms, caramelized red onions and Bearnaise sauce
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All day breakfast wrap with bacon/ macon, coddled egg, watercress, onion seed sprouts and mayo
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Crumbed chicken with chilli and coriander mayo and butter lettuce
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Club sandwich with chicken, bacon/ macon, lettuce, tomato and whole grain mustard mayo
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Aki’s legacy started in Village Walk when Café Kafe became a household name in the Northern Suburbs in 1991. This homely haunt became a benchmark café of excellent quality almost overnight thanks to fast, efficient service and generously portioned, excellent food.
Coronation prawn with mango, water cress, cucumber and avocado
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Thai sweet potato green curry wrap, lime pickled cabbage, spinach, peanuts, roast coconut, ginger, palm sugar and soy
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From this humble beginning Aki’s vision catapulted as he extended boundaries to upperclass fine dining of sheer opulence, when in 2007 he opened 8@The Towers in the upmarket Michaelangelo Hotel. This fashionable high street haunt offered international diners, locals and trend-setters a central “be-seen” venue to strut and dine.
Beef fillet Prego with paprika, garlic and red wine
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Fusion bistro To well-informed “hip” Sandtonians the name Aki Hadjipetros is associated with trendy and scrumptious dining experiences.
With this success under his experienced belt this risk-taking restaurateur challenged his own skills and those of his now established team’s skills and entered yet another diner’s market. With confident expectancy Aki teased the South African public to a new gastronomic experience when together with Jean he opened Bay Leaf and Sage in Melrose. Fusing Café Kafe with 8@The Towers this upmarket deli-cum-bistro established country style appeal with eclectic high quality food. Offering nouvelle twists of taste with visual appeal Bay Leaf and Sage drew patrons by combining light treats with take home delicacies and soon this corner hangout became as infectiously appealing as its predecessors.
Brunch Available S A T U R D A Y S ,
S U N D A Y S
French Toast with cinnamon bread,
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maple syrup, bacon/ macon and fried banana
Charred giant black mushrooms with asparagus, tomato, egg, marinated peppered feta and champagne zabalione
Smoked salmon potato rosti with poached
egg and caviar dressed with vanilla crème fraiche
Butter milk flapjacks with mixed berries,
plain yogurt candied pistachios and maple syrup
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P U B L I C
H O L I D A Y S
Salmon scramble with spring onion in a croissant Country fry up with bacon/macon
two eggs, tomato, mushrooms and steak
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Eggs Benedict with ham/turkey, poached egg and hollandaise
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Omelette with sun dried tomato, cilantro, goats cheese and chilli
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Burcher muesli with apple and sour cherries
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Main Business
Getting Started
Baked brinjal, tomato pilaf with spinach and feta parcels and red and yellow pepper essence
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Rib eye steak with green peppercorn, caper berry butter and shoestring chips
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Cambodian vegetable stir fry with udon noodles, lime and ginger
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Rump with whole grain mustard served with mustard and spring onion fondant potato
Porchini mushroom peppardelle pasta belts with wild mushroom sauce
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Fall off the bone Lamb shank with potato mash and brinjal tomato stew with pine nuts
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Mozambican Langustines flame grilled with provincial butter with a lemon, olive and tomato pilaf
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Chicken and chourizo risotto with tomato and sauvignon blanc
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Rolled saddle of lamb rubbed with rosemary and red wine served with waterblommetjie potato cakes
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Grilled line fish with braised leeks and a lemon, lime pilaf
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Slow braised pork belly with buttermilk and cauliflower mash, crispy leeks and butternut rosti with a white wine and vanilla veloute
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Skewered Kingklip char grilled with a tom yum, lime and peanut dressing served with Japanese noodles
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Bone in chicken fillet with green olive and basil potato crush with white tomato sauce
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Baby kingklip served on the bone with a tomato, olive salsa and shoe string chips
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Free range baby chicken with bay leaves and sage and a green peppercorn and risotto kunkwat stuffing
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Blue cheese burger with sundried tomato butter, rocket, blue cheese and shoe string chips
Main Course
Starters Seared tuna sashimi with jalapeĂąo dressing and sweet pickled beetroot string
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Salmon carpaccio, salmon caviar, toasted sesame and soy
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Salt and pepper squid with Japanese mayo and bringel chutney
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Crispy roast duck lasagna with with red wine and sweet plum juice
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Beef tartar with sauce Bearnaise, Parmesan and red onion tempura
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Calves liver with wilted greens, pine nuts and balsamic
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Caramelized leek, goats cheese and spinach tart with red onion tomato and balsamic marmalade
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Liquorish chicken wings with chilli jam and star anise
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Seared fillet of beef dressed with a smoked mushroom veloutĂŠ and potato croquet
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Fillet of beef served on the bone with caramelized red onion, red wine sauce and polenta
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Prime rib of beef served on the bone with saute potato, cream spinach gratin and Jack Daniels and black pepper sauce
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Seared Yellow fin tuna with a Cape Malay zucchini coconut curry
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Flame seared Scottish salmon dressed with tomato and chive ponzu served with cucumber, feta, pine nuts and dill
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Side Stepping Side Dishes
Pilaf rice
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Butternut rosti
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Spinach gratin
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Small salad
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Volenta
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Potato croquet
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Brinjal and tomato stew with pine nuts
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Shoe string chips Mashed potato
Sweet Sensations Dessert Lindt milk chocolate bon bons with amarula custard
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Dark Chocolate fondant vanilla- chocolate ice cream
with
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Koeksister ice cream in green
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peppercorn muilu fille with balsamic strawberries Chocolate spring rolls with hazelnut, banana and mixed wild berries
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Rhubarb crumble with rose champagne sorbet and rose water whipped cream
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Solly Kramer’s Parkhurst Supplier of fine wines and spirits to this fine establishment
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Red and white wines to compliment any meal
Wine & dine Select the perfect wine to compliment your meal House Wines
Glass
Bottle
Franschoek Cellar Sav Blanc Tropical fruit aromas
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Durnban Hills Chard Well balanced citrus aromas hinted by creamy vanilla
30 105
Robertson Pinot Noir Ruby coloured with fabulous spiced aroma
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Rustenburg Brampton Cab Sav Spiced Characteristic enhanced by firm tannins
40 120
Guardian Peak Shiraz Subtle red berry flavours with spiciness Villiera Merlot Attractive dark berry and vanilla aromas
Meerlust
Dry White Blends, Off Dry, SemiSweet & Other Cultivars Haute CabriĂŠre Chardonnay/Pinot Noir Well balanced distinguished elegance
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Terra del capo Pinot Grigio Italy’s best loved grape varietals
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De Wetshof Rhine Riesling Spicy deep fruity flavours
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Klien Constantia Semillon Oaky spiced powerful aromaed
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Glass
Bottle
Cabernet Sauvignon
Meerlust Chardonay Pronounced 120 330 Lime and lemon grass with cream on the nose
Rust & Vrede Classic bouquet of cassis
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Meerlust Rubicon Delicious black 185 510 cherry and blackcurrent nose
Waterford Pencil box fruity aromas
250
Stark Conde Three Pine extremely plush,rich texture complemented soft tannins
350
Graham Beck Coffee Stone Cassis black berries liqorise depths
325
Asara Red and black berries
200
Meerlust Pinot Noir Cranberry 120 345 and wild Strawberry red fruit nose Meelust Merlot silky Soft tannins 150 410
Chardonnay De Wetshoff Honneur Fine grape quality wooded flavours
250
Backsburg Profusion of intense aromas
130
Springfield Wild Yeast Pear and pineapple drop flavours Jordan Reserve Nine Yards Complex mineral citrus flavours
Shiraz Raka Biography Corianda seed and maple syrup and papaya flavours
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Steenburg Powerful berry fruit flavours
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350
Kevin Arnold Mocca spiced and black cherry hints
350
Jordan Syrah rich black fruit flavours
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Sauvignon Blanc
Pinot Noir Hamilton Russell deep coloured intense aromas dannie de
530
De Wetshoff Nature in Concert velvecherry flavours
350 250
Uva Mira Passion fruit, gooseberry,green fiq overtones
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Merlot
Buitenverwachting gooseberry hints
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Saxenburg Private Collection fine chocolate tannis
220
Springfield Special Cuvee Sensuous combination of passion fruit and citrus flavours
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Veenwouden aromas
blackberry
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Haute Cabriere a real treat
120
Red Blends
Iona Powerful crisp apple with a lingering finish
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Porcupine Ridge Plum,dried herb notes
Thelema balanced fresh melon and full grassy palate
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Rust & Vrede Mulberries, whited chocolate flavours
Klein Constatia Green citrus aromas
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Pinotage
reminiscent
Chenin Blanc Muldersbosch Steen Op Hout Melon with honeysuckle palate
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The forrester Meinert Chenin FMC Valilla and honey Flavours
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Kanu Summer Melon hint
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Sweet
Beyerskloof Black and red berry flavours
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Tukulu Wild brambles and plums
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Stormhoek Guava Juicy oaked wine
275
Southern Right balanced wood spice
300
Beautifully
Iona The blackcherryed
Gunner
Deeply
260
Champagne, Cap Classique & Sparkling Wine Steenburg Brut
230
Graham Beck Brut
190
Jc le Roux La Fleurette Ross
120
Krone Borealis brut
185
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label
890
Morgenster Lourens River Vally blond tobacco cinnamon fl
220
Veuve Clicquot Rose
Warwick 3 Cape ladies Mocha flavours with hazelnut aromas
220
Moet & Chandon Brut Imperial
800
Idiom SMV Black cherry and chocolate violets
320
Moet & Chandon Brut Rose
950
Moet & Chandon Brut Nector
900
Rupert & Rothchild Classique Blueberry and forest floor notes
200
De Toren Fusion V Ripe dark blackberry currant fruit
540
Billecart-Salmon Brut Rose
1400
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Alchemy Tall & Refreshing Green Destiny Cuban light rum
The Green Peppercorn Mixology
Martinis 45
Dark Chocolate Espresso Martini
Short & Botanical 45
Moonshine Skyy vodka muddled
infused with Madagascan green
Skyy vodka shaken with dark
with fresh watermelon, honey, Thai
pepper shaken with fresh basil,
chocolate, a tall shot of espresso and
purple basil leaves, orange zest and
watermelon and lime juice strained
vanilla infused sugar, served straight
lime juice, served short over ice and
over ice and charged with homemade
up in a chilled martini glass and
garnished with a watermelon slide
lemonade and completed with basil
garnished with 3 coffee beans and a
and baby basil leaf
and cracked pepper
chocolate dusting
Classic Mojito Cuban light rum
Raspberry Collins Skyy vodka or
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Watermelon and Ginger Martini
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Skyy vodka muddled with fresh
lime juice, and raw sugar cane, served
raw cane sugar, raspberries, served
watermelon, root ginger, raw cane
short over crushed ice and charged
tall over ice, charged with soda and
sugar and a splash of lime juice.
with soda - classic perfected
garnished with a horse-neck lemon
Black Raspberry Cosmopolitan
twist and star anise.
Caipirinha / Caipiroska Your choice...
Skyy vodka shaken with a black
Brazilian Cachaca rum or Skyy
raspberry sugar reduction, fresh lime
vodka muddled with fresh limes and
and a splash of cranberry, served
pure sugar cane, served short over
with fresh lemon, rose petal infused
straight up in a chilled martini glass
crushed ice and completed with a
sugar, cranberry and litchi juice.
and garnished with a spiral orange
twist of lime (ask about our seasonal
Completed with off white rose petals
twist
fresh fruit varieties available)
and a spiral lemon twist
Butterscotch Manhattan Kentucky
Morningside Cooler London dry gin served tall over ice
Strawberry
Mule
Skyy
vodka
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45
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Vanilla Bourbon Whiskey Sours
straight bourbon shaken with orange
Kentucky Straight Bourbon shaken
muddled with fresh root ginger,
zest, Santy’s bitters and butterscotch,
with freshly squeezed lemon juice,
strawberries and lime juice, shaken
served straight up in a chilled martini
Madagascan vanilla infused sugar,
and strained over ice and charged with
glass and garnished with a spiral
angostura and a dash of egg white,
organic ginger beer and garnished
orange twist and maraschino cherry
made traditionally, don’t knock it till
with garnished with a ginger fan
SUDOKU
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Honey
you’ve tried’ it...
Roasted
Rhubarb
Champagne Slow roasted honey
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glazed rhubarb infused wth Skyy vodka, served with ice cold cap 45
muddled with 2 varieties of mint,
gin with freshly squeezed lemon,
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45
Champagne Cocktails
Classique
sparkling
wine
and
completed with a pomegranate sugar reduction Fresh Fruit Bellinis Skyy vodka
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muddled with seasonal fresh fruit 45
and a splash of sugar, fine strained into a chilled champagne flute and topped with cap Classique sparkling wine Ginger Champagne Skyy vodka
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muddled with fresh root ginger, a splash of sugar and topped with 45
cap Classique sparkling wine and completed with a ginger slice. French 75 Premium London dry gin shaken with freshly squeezed lemon juice and Cointreau dry orange liqueur, fine strained into a chilled champagne flute and topped with cap Classique sparkling wine
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