Devonvale in
the Bottelary Hills is a golf club, it has a lodge, a restaurant and it also
has its own wines. We received an invitation from the owners the Provoyeurs to
come and visit and taste the wines and have their very good value three course
lunch for R130 (till September). So we
set out last Saturday as we were already going to Hartenberg for the Shiraz and
Charcuterie festival
The Entrance to
Devonvale announces the lunch in the Chez Shiraz restaurant. We think this is good value. A remarkable
price now-a-days when you can pay this just for a main course at other
restaurants.
The entrance to
Devonvale Lodge
and the
entrance to the restaurant
From the
restaurant upstairs, you can watch the golfers practicing their putting while
they wait for their round to start.
Their
interesting wine list, which has three of their own wines to drink with lunch
under the Provoyeur label. We had
glasses of the good Simonsig Chenin Blanc with our starters and a glass of the
Shiraz for Lynne and the Pinotage for John with our main courses.
That day’s
menu. It does change.
You can also
eat off the normal a la Carte menu. We liked the look of the breakfast section.
The chef’s
version of a spinach roulade was leaves of spinach wrapped around fried peppers
and onions. Not quite what we know as a roulade.
and the
chicken ‘terrine’ was a little free form and the chicken pieces came with
mushrooms in a creamy sauce
The kingklip
with a beurre blanc sauce was superb. Such fresh fish and not cooked to rubber, so even John liked it.
The good Beef
sirloin was nicely smoky from searing on a chargrill with a good jus, nicely pink and it came with small roast
potatoes with their skins on.
A small banana
tart with vanilla ice-cream had rather leathery pastry but tasted very good
The duo of
chocolate with a berry sauce. The smaller triangular piece was a good rich chocolate. The larger piece showed more evidence of cocoa powder
Book before
you go, this Sunday might be popular
And you can
park your golf cart near the entrance
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2014
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