TO THOSE OFYOU WHO HAVE EVER UTTEREDTHE WORDS “WE NEVER GET ANYTHING GOOD AROUND HERE”, now is the time to eat your words.
The international food market concept that premiered in Lisbon in 2014 – as a physical representation of the iconic Time Out magazine, first launched in London in the sixties – has reached the African continent. (Ahead of London itself, in fact.) And it has placed itself at the V&A Waterfront at the Old Power Station on Dock Road (and previously home to the V&A Food Market).
If you've been fortunate enough to have crammed down a Katz Deli pastrami sando at DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, snagged a sausage at Tramsheds in Sydney, or torn through a soft pretzel while balancing your shopping and a beer under one armat Markthalle Neun in Berlin, you'll bein on the phenomenon of the high-end food hall, the regular food market's older, wiser sibling who's been around andseen some things.
A food hall typically hosts express versions of existing restaurants, not dissimilar to the food truck phase we never thought we'd move pastas a nation. It is also distinguishable through its more elaborate kitchen set-ups and cafeteria-style seating, where every table is “the cool table”.
To create a unique experience here, the project required some of South Africa's finest culinary talents tocollaborate, a
