CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 37

LUNCH

Uniquely South African cuisine

for sundowners.

VIGOUR&VERVE is open seven days a week, from 6.30am to 11pm.
Breakfast is served buffet and à la carte style until 11am.
The restaurant follows a proudly South African theme and boasts
menu items you won’t find anywhere else. A new menu was launched
recently that has been two months in the making, and which reflects
the restaurant’s local-cuisine slant.
Among other menu items, you can look forward to a Boerie Bite
starter (a modern take on pap and wors that consists of bite-sized
boerewors pieces tossed in sweet, fruity chutney and served with
pieces of deep-fried pap); Gorima’s Butter Chicken Pizza (V&V’s
signature butter chicken, made with the famous local Gorima’s spices
and served on a choice of plain, whole-wheat or gluten-free pizza
bases, with a cucumber raita); and a shisa nyama mixed grill (wors,
quarter chicken, 100g steak and a lamb chop, all grilled over an open
flame). A traditional Durban-style lamb curry, complete with basmati
rice, sambals, raita and atchar, has also been added.
Also new to the venue are eight cocktails — Long Island Iced Tea,
Cosmopolitan, Strawberry Daiquiri, Mojito, Margarita, Sex on the
Beach, Harvey Wallbanger and Piña Colada — all for no more than
R35 each.
The restaurant also has an ongoing special, where between 4pm and
10pm you can get two pizzas, or two burgers, or a pizza and a burger
for R75. Daniel Wersig, food and beverage manager for Southern Sun
Pietermaritzburg, says that it has been hugely popular.
Vigour&Verve at the Golden Horse in Pietermaritzburg was the first
Vigour&Verve to open in the country. It was closely followed by the V&V
Maharani in Durban, then Cafe V at Suncoast in Durban. Vigour&Verve
Silverstar was set to open in Johannesburg this October and the fifth
branch is planned for Gold Reef City next year.
“The opening of five restaurants in just 14 months shows the