Welcome to another blog post. Today is the first of my For-Fork
Sake series. Where I share our experience with a new restaurant we tried. Leroy
and I Love trying new places and new Foods. Leroy normally goes on the website
Eat out, you can check it out here. And then we plan our next trip with that
restaurant.
So, in today’s post I will be sharing Urbanologi:
It is in New Town of Johannesburg, they have won restaurant
of the year a few times now and going there you can see why. When you walk in,
it has this open rustic feel, you feel welcome and you can’t stop from looking
all over the place.
The meal portions are small but o my goodness so flavourful.
Leroy read up that you need to take a few dishes and we share that. So of
course, that is what we did.
Firstly, we had Pickled Chokka Wings that was served with coriander
pesto, orange puree and turnip spaghetti.
When the dish came it looked so beautiful with the colours
and how it was plated, having the first bite I was honestly so surprised it was
so good. It was squid that was raw and pickled. Defiantly something you should
add to your list when you go.
Then we had the Pork Dumpling that was served with a citrus
broth and Asian vegetable salad in the broth.
I love dumplings and this one was out of this world that
broth complimented it so much.
We then had the Crispy dropped black pepper pork belly that
was served with tamarind dressing, butternut puree, cucumber and smoked
peanuts.
I saw almost every table was getting this dish and I was
hoping we somehow ordered it too, and thank Goodness, we did. This was by far
my favourite dish and the dip sauce that comes with it was mouth-watering good.
Just thinking of it now is making me hungry all over again. I would suggest you
don’t get this dish to share 😊
We then had the Teriyaki poached sweet potatoes that was
served with yoghurt & pilsner honeycomb.
The steak was perfect medium rare, it’s like that moment you
just take a good steak off the braai and eat a bite and the mushrooms was so
good with it.
For our dessert, we tried the Ginger Malva that was served
with Lime leaf ice cream and popcorn soil.
That was good too, we were worried what they meant by the
popcorn soil but relieved to see it was just bits of popcorn, although to my
opinion it could do without the popcorn soil.
I would defiantly recommend this place to anyone who is
willing to step out of their comfort zone and try new dishes. Don’t forget if
you do plan on going to make a reservation you won’t be disappointed.
If you have any other suggestions for us please feel free to
leave them in the comments below.