One Saturday morning we were en route to Paternoster for “mommy-in-law’s” birthday party weekend, when we decided to stop of at Groote Post wine farm for a little wine tasting. When we got to the farm’s tasting room we were the only people there so we got Frikkie van Zyl’s undivided attention. He is extremely knowledgeable about the wines and has a good sense of humour as well.
After spending about an hour there tasting numerous different types of great Groote Post wines we decided on the spur of the moment to stay for a bite to eat. Best impulsive decision ever made! Frikkie walked us over to the restaurant, which is situated opposite the tasting room. The restaurant is located inside an old farm house. We sat in one of the many sections (a.k.a rooms) of the restaurant (a.k.a old farm house). Even the bathrooms are fully equipped bathrooms with showers and baths! So funny! Having smaller different rooms as oppose to one large dining area is nice in the sense that the restaurant doesn’t need to be full in order to give you that cozy feeling. There is nothing worse than eating in an empty restaurant. When full, it can seat up to 120 guests. It was a sunny winter’s day so it wasn’t really cold outside, but I can imagine that this place must be so nice and cozy in the colder winter months.
Around you the place is decorated with things from our granny’s era like old brass pots and steel irons. The meals are also very hands on, as you can see it has been made with time and care from scratch. Sitting there waiting for our food made me feel like we were settling down at my grans house for a Sunday lunch. Oh how I miss those days! Our waitress was an elderly coloured lady, she was so sweet. At first we were the only people eating there but later another couple joined. You could see they were regulars as they ordered immediately and they knew the waiter and the chef.
The menu was small, which is nice. I prefer smaller menu’s because I feel then the chef really has the opportunity to perfect the dishes. There is nothing worse than a menu that is so freaking big that you need a smoke break mid-way thru reading it. Then ordering something to eat just becomes too much work. Although their menu is small it does change regularly. For their meals they use only the freshest produce, most of which is locally sourced and grown.
For mains my partner and I had the Old Man’s Steak Roll with Garlic Creme and hand cut chips and my fellow diners had the Chicken Korma pie, Penne with Neapolitana Sauce, and the Tomato and Camembert Tart and West Coast Fish Cakes with Sweet Chili starters.The Chicken Korma pie was good, but the pastry was a little bit oily. The Penne with Neapolitana Sauce was nice but nothing special. The West Coast Fish Cakes with Sweet Chili were rather plain but the Tomato and Camembert Tart was amazing! The person who had this could not stop going on about how much he was enjoying it!!
I still think, no wait, I KNOW my meal took the prize hands down! I am sure as the waitress put down that meal everyone else immediately had order envy!! J When we ordered this meal we still asked the waitress if the steak was a minute steak and she said no it is a proper steak, but we were still skeptical! No way was I ready for what I was about to taste. It totally blew every single expectation I had, completely out of the park!! The bun was just crispy enough on the outside to prevent it from being too tough to cut and on the inside it was so soft.
On the inside of the top part of the roll they had put some sauce. I am not sure what it was but it was really good! The steak and that garlic crème!!! There was about 4 pieces of little steaks (fillet steak!!) on this roll!!! Perfectly medium rare!! Mmmm just thinking about it now makes me want to dash thru to Groote Post and order one!! I didn’t see what that other couple ate that quickly popped in but I can now see why people would come back for this restaurant’s meals. I would go there especially for that steak roll. And the fact that they make really good wine as well is an added bonus. J 
The steak was so so good, it breaks my heart that I had to give a piece away because I simply could not fit it inside my belly! Usually I like nice thick potato wedges but the steak was so good that I hardly paid attention to the potato wedges!! I can with the utmost confidence say that I have NEVER had such a good steak roll!! And I will struggle to find one that can compete (not even to mention how near to impossible it would be to find one to beat this one) with this steak roll! I am so thankful that I don’t stay too far from this farm so that I can go pop by there for a quick steak roll on a Saturday afternoon!! J That garlic crème was something out of this world. I usually hate mayo type dressing but this I couldn’t get enough off.So overall this was a very, unexpected and unplanned, great experience. Being Afrikaans, it took me straight back to my roots! They will definitely be seeing me again!
Yours in fun & yummy steak rolls,
Elly D
P.O. Box 103
Darling
West Coast
022-492 2825
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