Fresh from the team behind Tutto Food Co., the mobile restaurant and catering company seen at markets around Jozi, is Baba G, a small rotisserie deli focusing on street food with a fusion of Afro-Mediterranean flavours. The new deli, which is now open at the Post Office Centre in Illovo, is offering a short menu of spiced free-range chickens, in-house flatbreads and fresh salads that will give locals a taste of north Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe.

The chickens being cooked in the rotisserie at Baba G. Photo by Candice Bondi

Baba G’s main focus will be on good quality ingredients and in-house products. The flatbreads are prepared with unbleached, stone-ground flour and left to develop for 24 hours, before being cooked front-of-house on a bread dome brought back from Israel.

The chickens at Baba G. Photo by Candice Bondi

Chickens are sourced from a free-range supplier and are free from routine antibiotics and hormones. The chooks are dusted with one of the home-made spice blends – herbs and salt, Middle Eastern with lemon, and north African with a kick of chilli – and roasted on the French rotisserie until tender, juicy and golden. Your choice of chicken is served in whole, half, or quarter portions, or as a filling to one of the bread offerings.

A wrap being prepared at Baba G. Photo by Candice Bondi

To kick things up a notch, the team is also offering a choice of fresh salads and the lafa (flatbread) bar will offer a selection of in-house pickles, drizzles and dips to accompany the pillow breads, flatbreads and wraps that can act as a vessel for your chicken.

The lafa bar at Baba G. Photo by Candice Bondi.

Baba G is now open for a quick sit down meal or a takeaway from Tuesday to Saturday from 11am until 7pm, and on Sunday from 11am to 3pm.

A takeaway salad box at Baba G. Photo by Candice Bondi