At par with Joe‘s in Windhoek, one of the best on this planet!!

The place has a great ambience besides the fresh cement wine cellar smell. Below average service. The waitress had some attitude and we had to find the manager to finally get our sauces after waiting with our food for close to 5 minutes. My t-Bone was rare after ordering it medium rare and after a quick sear on the grill the meat was nice, by any stretch not amazing. Given the price and high expectation this restaurant falls well below an acceptable level.

If this is the best steak in Cape Town, then please start importing Argentine beef. The toughest piece of meat I have had maybe ever. The wine was lovely, but the place had a bad odour, you eat under in a basement with a low ceiling. I don't get it. Giorgio obviously couldn't cut it in Europe...

Okay. The restaurant IS noisy - a confluence of the architecture and the happy and excited people dining there. But the food is sensational, and every single member of staff we met (and we met several, from the door, to the bar to the dining room) was friendly, polite and on the ball.
Six of us had supper there last night. The quality of both the ingredients and the cooking combined to make a memorable meal out of seemingly quite simple dishes. We had starters, mains and pudding - and at every course there were comments about the excellence of the dishes put before us. I'd have to rate it a huge success. And the table next to us seemed to be having a good time, too.
We spared no expense: the average price per head came to R430.