TASTING MENUS
Fine Dining at Home — Tasting Menus in Your Villa
Restaurant-level tasting menus, cooked and plated in your own kitchen by a senior chef.
Fixed itemised quote before you pay a deposit · Reply within 1 hour, 08:00–20:00 SAST.
Fine dining at home is a five or seven-course tasting menu cooked and plated in your villa kitchen by a senior chef. It suits food-focused travellers, executive dinners and milestone tables of four or more guests across Cape Town and the Winelands. from R1 200 pp per person · Min 4 guests.
Restaurant-level, without the restaurant
Fine dining at home is a five or seven-course tasting menu cooked and plated in your villa kitchen by a senior chef. It suits food-focused travellers, executive dinners and milestone tables of four or more guests across Cape Town and the Winelands.
The senior bench runs these menus — chefs who have held pass positions, not generalists. Courses arrive in sequence with proper pacing, a printed menu on the table, and a kitchen left spotless behind them.
What changes at home is the frame around the food. No table turnover, no 22:00 curfew from the next seating, no taxi home. The cheese course can wait twenty minutes while someone finishes a story. That freedom is the actual product; the cooking is how we earn it.
Three signature menus
Three menus carry the Cape specifically: the Cape Malay Heritage dinner, the Fynbos Tasting, and the Cape Seafood Journey. Each has its own page with the full arc — bobotie and koesisters refined; rooibos, buchu and waterblommetjie in season; snoek and licensed in-season kreef.
These are not theme nights. Each menu is built from ingredients with a genuine Cape address, written with the seasons, and revised when the market changes. If your table wants a menu that ignores the Cape entirely — a classic French arc, say — the consult can build that too.
Cape Malay heritage dinner (5 courses)
fromR1 200pp
Min 4 guests
Fynbos tasting menu (7 courses)
fromR1 600pp
Min 4 guests
Cape seafood journey (5 courses)
fromR1 350pp
Min 4 guests
Five courses or seven
The five-course tasting suits most evenings. The seven-course signature adds an amuse, a palate cleanser and a slower arc — the format our chef's table is built on. Both carry a four-guest minimum, and both quote fixed and itemised before any deposit.
Not sure which fits your evening? Five courses for a dinner that is part of a bigger night; seven when the dinner is the whole point.
Tasting menu, 5-course
fromR1 200pp
Min 4 guests
Signature tasting, 7-course
fromR1 600–2 200pp
Min 4 guests
A sample seven-course arc
Menus are written for your table after the consult. This recent fynbos arc shows the shape — courses change with the season and the market.
- 01Amuse: rooibos-cured trout, buchu
- 02Waterblommetjie velouté, burnt leek oil
- 03Snoek, apricot glaze, charred corn
- 04Palate cleanser: naartjie and fynbos honey
- 05Springbok loin, morogo, pumpkin seed
- 06Renosterbos cheese, quince, seed cracker
- 07Milk tart textures, toasted meringue
Included, and quoted separately
The honesty table, both columns. Your fixed itemised quote lists every line before the 50% deposit locks the date.
Included
- menu consult and printed menus on the table
- senior chef, plating equipment and full service
- complete kitchen cleanup
Quoted separately
- groceries at cost, receipts attached
- wine pairing and sommelier hosting
- rentals, Zone 2–3 travel, festive multipliers
Attach a pairing
A sommelier pairing turns a tasting menu into an evening: small Cape producers matched course by course, poured and introduced at the table. See the wine pairing and sommelier page for the full product range.
| Service | From |
|---|---|
| Sommelier wine pairing add-on | fromR450–650per person |
| Sommelier hosting | fromR3 500per event |
Verified October 2026 · Festive 1.5×–2× · Prices include VAT where stated.
Kitchens, pacing and practicalities
A standard villa kitchen handles a tasting menu — we bring the plating equipment, and induction backup where load-shedding demands it. Very small kitchens push service to an adjacent counter; we scout the space in the consult.
Pacing is yours. A five-course menu runs about two and a half hours at a comfortable rhythm; seven courses take three. Speeches, toasts and slow conversations are built into the plan, not treated as delays.
Table styling, rentals and glassware can be arranged and itemised on the quote. Many villas already have what a tasting menu needs; where they do not, we bring it in and show the line.
In writing, not in vibes — read the full booking protection terms.
Questions, answered.
Anything else? One WhatsApp message is enough — reply within 1 hour, 08:00–20:00 sast.
Related services
Tell us the date, the guests and the place.
We handle everything else — menu, shopping, cooking, service, cleanup. Guaranteed.
Replacement-or-refund · Fixed itemised quote · Published cancellation tiers