Newlands Quarter

Introducing our new head chef, Peter Pankhurst!

"According to my mother when I was five years old, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I would say that I wanted to be a cooker man. Some sort of unknown superhero. I even went to John Orr Technical High in Joburg to attend hotel school. After discovering the joys of ma*****na in my matric year I decided that getting up at four in the morning to make someone else’s breakfast was a bad idea and I became a professional ne’er do well for a long time.

Luckily I met and married my lovely wife who had the good sense to ask me, after the birth of our daughter, why I was so unhappy. I gave her the adult version of becoming a cookerman and she basically told me to go forth and live my life.

I have been lucky enough to have learnt from the likes of Marc Guebert of Ile de France, Jorn Pless Ma Cuisine, Mary Taylor and Janet Telian. I took over the kitchen of Savoy Cabbage from Janet and was there for a total of nineteen years, eighteen of those in charge of the kitchen.

I cook food because I believe that the sharing of food and company are amongst the most important parts of what seems lately to be a very unsteady civilisation. I cook in memory of my paternal grandmother, Arinula Pankhurst, the best cook my family had."

We welcome his experience and wisdom with open arms - come and experience his influence and watch his magic unfold!

Join us at the Newlands Creamery!!

Pick any flavour in our scoop counter, and our brilliant team will hand blend the pure ice cream into an as-thick-as-you-like-it milkshake, just for you. ✨🥛✨

Come try a fabulous lunch special

Botany has opened again tonight!
Covid rules & hours.
Come and support us!
Call +27 82 399 2947
Event bookings welcome