TV and Radio chef and big personality, Jenny Morris is
famous for her good cooking, her ebullient nature and sense of fun. Durbanville
is in for a treat; she has now opened a second branch of her restaurant
Yumcious (the first is in the Cape Quarter in Cape Town) in the De Ville
shopping Centre on the corner of Main and Wellington roads. We were invited to
join her for lunch on Sunday with some other media and bloggers. It was a lovely
way to spend a Sunday having lunch. Thank you Jenny
You always get a warm
welcome from Jenny
We were shown to a long table
and there was another behind us having a birthday celebration
Dieter Odendaal from
Creation wines in the Hemel and Aarde supplied the wines for the event - they are on the wine list too. And we were all given a bottle of their Viognier and one of their Viognier chocolates to take home
The restaurant is
large and spacious and modern. We love the soft aqua colour on the walls, very
restful. Its on our lounge wall too!
The three Creation
wines we drank with lunch. The 2017 African Penguin Reserve Rosé made from 60%
Grenache, 20% Viognier, 20%. Syrah is zesty and refreshing with strawberry
cherry flavours. The 2017 Viognier is a classic food wine, full of ripe white
peaches and gently creamy vanilla wood. The 2016 Syrah Grenache blend has
always been one of our favourite Creation wines. Dark berries and blue plums,
savouriness and peppery, it is so easy to drink and goes perfectly with rich
meat dishes.
The food is a buffet,
full of marvellous choices that change by the day and season. Last week they
did Thai, this week it’s something different. You take a plate and help yourself;
it is then charged for by weight. You can do a starter plate and a main if you
like, in fact you can keep going, but you pay for what is weighed. Olives,
carrots and red onions, in the background seared aubergine
Pesto, a apple and
celery salad dressed with mayonnaise and nigella seeds
Potato salad, an
avocado and toasted hazelnut salad with curd cheese, humus
An egg salad, next to
a bocconcini, tomato and olive salad
Marvellous savoury
quiches and tarts
Slow roasted sweet
potatoes
The Oxtail was very
popular
Slices of rare roast
beef and good gravy
Amazing and irresistible
crisp, oh so crisp pork crackling
The Macaroni cheese
was in a rich creamy cheese sauce. Next to that were baked courgettes with green
beans
Something you don’t
see very often and which we love, seaweed salad. Jenny says its a firm
favourite on the buffet
Aubergines and
pimento red peppers with herbs and white cheese
The heritage tomato,
bocconcini and olive salad is dressed with micro greens and pomegranate seeds
The spicy chicken
curry was another crowd pleaser
A tomato and spinach
quiche, with crisp pastry
This was Lynne's
plate. Note the duck fat potatoes she could not resist either
John's plate and its
weight. We assume that includes the dish weight, which is subtracted
Warm freshly baked
bread from the kitchen; one was olive bread, the other cheese. Soft and
slightly sweet dough with a good crisp crust
Anel Grobler and Jan Laubscher
of Spit or Swallow and Winetimes.co.za
Everyone on the table
enjoying their lunch and the wine and lots of industry chat
The dessert menu. We
didn't have to choose, Jenny brought a selection to the table, in multiples so
we shared and all got a taste of each dessert
There was also a
walnut cake to enjoy
and this chocolate
layered cake
The light as air
Double Trouble light and dark chocolate mousse topped with ganache, nuts and a
strawberry
The light Passion
fruit and lemon layered cheesecake. We also really enjoyed the New York baked
cheesecake topped with caramel, which was richer and sweeter
This was the
favourite dessert of the day, a warm chocolate coated brownie with nuts. So delicious
Don't miss out. Head
for Yumcious as fast as possible, in town or in Durbanville, to enjoy this
lovely food. And you can buy a copy of Jenny’s cookbook there, also entitled
Yumcious
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2018
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