Grapevine Wine & Dine
Since June, the team from Dish Food & Social
restaurant has catered for several mid-afternoon
has joined the Val de Vie family as the new Polo
get-togethers. The Polo Club recently hosted
Club Restaurant team and with a vast variety of
a homeowners’ get-together to introduce the
event catering experience; they have taken on
restaurant team to the residents. It was also an
the challenge of creating delicious cuisine for
opportunity for the team to get to know their
all occasions. The key part of Dish’s name is the
neighbour’s – or meet them for the first time!
“social”. Dish started almost by accident, when
the very social Andrea Foulkes was asked to do
Mindful of all the different ways in which residents
for friends what she seemed to do so effortlessly
use the restaurant, it is vital that the menu
at home. Cook. Her work is simply an extension
satisfies the huge array of requirements - from
of her life.
the ‘quick-bite-at-lunchtime’ to sophisticated
dinner dishes to enjoy with a great bottle of wine.
Of course, one person can’t be everywhere.
Dishes also need to be interesting sounding,
The Polo Club team is headed by Wilmien
taste delicious and be competitively priced. The
Smuts and Emma Hepburn. Responsible for
Polo Club offers the full range of Val de Vie wines,
front of house is Wilmien, a chef by trade who
with its Rhône-inspired blends as well as a small
previously managed Dish’s Red Table restaurant
complement of wines from external producers.
at Nederburg. Emma on pastry and desserts
is something of a ‘high tea queen’, and the
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