Caroline’s last day at work is next Wednesday (the 30th) and so she’s been going to a few farewell lunches organised by different departments of her company that have appreciated the quality of her work over the years – to put it mildly they’re sad to see her go, but we must move on. We fly to our future home – Sydney, Australia on Thursday to look for suitable places to live, and to do things like open bank accounts and the like.
On Friday one of the departments decided to take her to lunch at our favourite place, Gusto! (ok, they asked her where she wanted to go, and this was her choice) – I tagged along because I’m friendly with the people in that department and of course because it’s Gusto! 
I didn’t want to look like the food porn geek so I simply snapped a shot of my meal, the Riviera burger. Caroline had the Hawaiian burger (beef patty with pineapple), and most of the others had burgers too. The Riviera burger is a beef patty with brie cheese and cranberry sauce. It’s a strange combination when you first think about it, but when you taste it you realise that it’s not as strange as you think, and it’s pretty amazing. As you can see it is served on a portuguese roll (as are all the burgers at Gusto!), and it is also served with thick cut potato wedge chips.
LOCATION
Gusto Café
Umhlanga Plaza on McCausland Crescent
between Lord Prawn and Java (old Zara’s) Café
Tel: 031-561-4862
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Later in the day we did our weekly shopping, and we asked each other what we felt like for dinner. Caro said that she felt like sushi, and I would never say no to sushi so we headed off to Cape Town Fish Market in Gateway Shopping Centre. I didn’t actually take any photos of the sushi because we have taken so many over the past months from this branch of CTFM so if you want to see sushi just do a quick search on this site. Caroline had only sushi – a prawn and avo fashion sandwich, seared tuna and a prawn tempura hand roll. I had the same except for the hand roll. Instead I had the Kingklip bento box. The Kingklip* was amazing – so succulent and meaty, and to dip those Kingklip “fingers” into the Kewpie mayo was just wonderful! I wasn’t too impressed with the rest of the box though. The rice had a hard outer coating (the outer rice had hardened), the kake age vegetables were mostly onion, but were also very oily, and the coleslaw was really just some shredded cabbage with mayo and sesame seeds. If I could have had just the Kingklip I would have.
* Kingklip is a type of fish that lives in the cold waters off South Africa’s west coast. It is a species that is currently under threat from over fishing (so I very rarely have it these days), but as a result it is often replaced with a fish that people from other countries might recognise, Ling. The two fish are similar which is why they are interchanged, but Kingklip is supposed to be a better fish for eating. The problem comes in when restaurants substitute Kingklip for Ling and don’t tell anyone. I don’t believe CTFM do this but sometimes this happens at the supplier level and the restaurants don’t even know that the switch has happened. Don’t you just love unethical Humans?
LOCATION
Cape Town Fish Market
Shop F018, Gateway Theatre of Shopping
Umhlanga New Town Centre
Tel: 031-566-4432
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