Everyone in the SA foodie world is talking about The LivingRoom at Summerhill Guest Estate in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, which beat every restaurant in the country to take top honours at the 2022 Eat Out awards last week. Wanda Hennig met chef Johannes ...
The kitchen where the ambience is focused; mindful. Like a mantra, the most-said word by all three people working in it is “yebo”. Have you? Yebo! Will you? Yebo! Is it? Yebo.Lovely, genial Johanna, who runs things front-of-house, is the in-house somm. “So much love and effort goes into the food and we do a lot of pairings. Part of the experience here is the wine so my focus when selecting is on small estates. Wines you won’t find in every bottle store. Boutique winemakers.
While there, I am invited to join the family at their dinner table, before guests arrive. At the table where family members gather each evening to eat together. Today there are Johannes and Johanna, their toddler son, baby daughter and the children’s carer, and Christine Richter, Johannes’s mom. It is she who established Summerhill Boutique Hotel in 1997, at, the family’s property – where Johannes grew up – in the Cowies Hill conservancy in Pinetown.
But his mom, Johannes tells me, just bought back good German bratwurst from Cape Town. He fries it up. Slices potatoes into wedges, skin on, and drops them into the hot sunflower oil. They come out crispy and golden; ready for his toss of Oryx salt.
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