Vines and our mountain on a beautiful winter’s day
The interior of the Restaurant
Chargers on every table bearing the De Villiers Graaff crest
John chose the excellent French onion soup which was so good it inspired Lynne to make a pot on Monday night. 
This came with a glass of De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2011.
Lynne had the Potato, sweet corn and truffle soup served with moist corn bread.
The soup was as smooth as silk and also very inspiring. We will be trying to make both the soup and bread soon, This came with a glass of their white blend Winifred 2010 which went very well indeed.
There were two main courses, but we both chose the very substantial Goulash ‘soup’ with dumplings.
More like a very filling pork and paprika stew this was good, but the dumplings made from choux pastry were as light as a feather and a good counterpoint, as dumplings are normally quite stodgy. We drank glasses of the Merlot 2009 with this. The alternative course was a Dhal (lentil) and tomato curry served with a naan and red onion. We saw some on our neighbours' table and it looked delicious. Great that there was a vegetarian option.
We panicked a bit when we saw the Bread and butter puddings, as we were both flooded with memories of squares of solid stodge in fake powdered custard at boarding school.
Our fears were completely unfounded as this light and gentle pudding floated in a lovely sea of real vanilla custard and was so delicious that it absolutely had to be finished.
Our fears were completely unfounded as this light and gentle pudding floated in a lovely sea of real vanilla custard and was so delicious that it absolutely had to be finished.
Wines on their winelist are mainly from De Grendel, but they do offer choices from the other farms in the area.
All photographs in this blog are ©John Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus cc
