eat like Bourdain
🇿🇦 Johannesburg
5 places across Parts Unknown
Every Place Bourdain Visited in Johannesburg
5 placesMeal with locals
Regent Street
Tony ate iftar (meal at sundown when fasting for Ramadan has broken) with the Rasdien family. Malaysian family, they prepare panang curry with beef, a chicken pie, traditional ramadan shake.
The Yeoville Dinner Club
Rockey Street
Chef Sanza cooked for Tony: A Nigerian dish of egusi and beef (cooked with melon and pumpkin seeds) futu (crumbly cornmeal porridge); basmati rice with rose water; achar (pickled eggplant and mango); Congolese cassava; and falafel. Menu changes daily.
Hillbrow
Claim Street
"A notoriously dangerous district" where Tony met with DJ Les.
Sympathy's Restaurant
Claim Street
Tony and DJ Les had fried chicken, greens, mieliepap, beets, and coleslaw.
Neighbourgoods Market
De Beer Street
Tony ate a Balkan burger here. It is a flattened ground beef patty with tons of cheese and your choice of toppings. There is a rooftop with a view where you can sit and eat.
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