Tonight we had dinner at, “The Butcher Shop and Grill”  (http://www.thebutchershop.co.za/), at the Nelson Mandela Square. This restaurant is located across the square from the previously panned Trump BBQ and Grill. This restaurant features prime South African beef, some cuts dry-aged forty or more days. If your appetite runs larger than their listed cuts, they will even custom-butcher a cut sized to your needs.

Eron had the Game Meat Pie; a huge baked pot pie topped with very nice puff pastry. Very tasty indeed with many chunks of meat, carrots, and potatoes all in a rich dark-brown gravy. The only possible negative was that it became just slightly too salty for our palates as we ate more of the pie.

I had the Sirloin steak. It was grass-fed beef at it’s best. The beef had that slightly gamey flavour and was literally fork-tender; it was cooked to medium-rare perfection. It was prepared in the Argentine-style; grilled with just a hint of salt, nothing else. It is up to the diner to use pepper and or sauces to season to taste.

It’s also noteworthy that in their menu, this restaurant correctly distinguishes between Jack Daniels as being a Whiskey and Jim Beam as being a Bourbon. Very few restaurants (even in North American) correctly make that distinction. This is one restaurant I would definitely recommend.