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The wealth, diversity and fast-paced social life found in Johannesburg means that the city has a huge range of places to
eat out
. You can find all sorts of styles, from ultra-chic fusion cafAŠs to formica-tabled Chinese eating dens where there's no English menu, meat-guzzling steakhouses to wonderfully graceful Thai restaurants. Cultural interaction was obstructed for so long that a cuisine unique to the city has never emerged, but such is the cosmopolitan nature of Jo'burg that authentic French, Italian and Portuguese restaurants are all found here, and there are increasing numbers of African restaurants, not just township South African but Congolese, Moroccan and Cape Malay.
Prices
are inevitably a bit higher than elsewhere in the country outside Cape Town and the Winelands, and you can blow out in spectacular style, but an average meal out is still good value.
All of Jo'burg's shopping malls are well-stocked with restaurants, some housing the very top-notch venues, but more frequently they are dominated by unadventurous, bland chains. Thankfully, a number of suburbs have small, interesting eating places; the key places are 7th Street in Melville , the junction of Greenway and Gleneagles in Greenside , Grant Avenue in Norwood (to the east of Houghton) and, to a lesser extent, 4th Avenue in Parkhurst .
If you don't fancy eating out, most shopping centres have plenty of
takeaway
options, while a
delivery
service called
Mr Delivery
has come to the rescue of many a weary traveller and unwilling self-caterer. They pick up from a range of reasonable mid-market eating places: contact them on
or in the northern suburbs tel 011 482 4748 (Melville), tel 011 442 4411 (Rosebank) and tel 011 784 6000 (Sandton). Other useful information
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