Want to have a truly different social and dining experience? Then pop into the African Swiss Restaurant and music lounge, open since the 4th of June 04. The place is also perfect for functions of all kinds for up to 150 people. AfricanSwiss is very different to any existing restaurant in South Africa and can properly be best compared with the unique and stylish places that operate successfully in cities like Zürich, London or Paris. Look inside>>

News Now open on Tuesdays nights as well as from Wednesday morning to Sunday late afternoon, non stop! And we got a great light menu, too, for the lunches!

The last couple of month have been just great for AFRICANSWISS with doubling guest figures and so many compliments for our food! Also the press has visited us again and this is what they wrote:

African Swiss Restaurant
Yum Yum -This Is Definitely Tops Around the Dam!
Thursday 28 February 2008
By Hartie Eater

You’ll struggle to find their phone number in any directory, as a matter of fact, the enquiries service didn’t even have their number, so it was a matter of playing the sleuth to find the phone number of the African Swiss Restaurant in Broederstroom. But it’s very rewarding exercise, and after today, well, you can enter their number in your personal directory.

Here’s a chef who will not compromise on the quality of his ingredients, or his cooking and who has the purist’s attitude to all things culinary. Michael Manegold believes that his food should speak for itself, with no frills, no pretence, and what a welcome relief after Hartie Eater’s last two restaurant visits elsewhere. He also believes in his food to the extent that he relies mostly on word of mouth referrals and repeat (very) satisfied customers for business. At the restaurant one is met by the resident dogs, a huge Great Dane with gorgeous blue grey eyes (with a strict instruction not to feed her on a notice near the front entrance), a Weimarana and a fluffy allsorts. The restaurant is a rough and ready indoor/outdoor room with rustic furniture and the biggest fireplace I’ve ever seen for chilly days and evenings.

Our friendly host welcomed us to our table and we ordered drinks. I must say that I have never encountered a selection of beers as large as this one, from Beck’s non alcoholic to Heineken to the ubiquitous Castle. We were served complementary, a slice of home-baked bread with a tomato garnish and a slice of thinly sliced smoked meat.

Swiss roots
And so to the menu. Michael’s Swiss roots are reflected in his menu, with many Swiss and African Swiss components. “All our food is preservative free and we make all our own sauces and bread. We even have our own animals which we purchase and hand over to a farmer in Muldersdrift to rear and eventually slaughter for veal and beef. That way we can be sure of the feed and eventually the quality of the end product. Shop bought bread is also full of undesirable chemicals, so we bake our own.”

Michael also says he supports as many local suppliers as he can, he doesn’t mind paying for true quality. “It’s not possible to produce free range chicken at R28 a kg, nor is it possible to produce a free range egg where she lays her eggs in the sun, not in an enclosed inside space for less than R3 an egg, but most eggs are definitely not the free range that they say they are. I’ll never quibble about the price of properly produced food. Yet, the public simply pay up when there’s a petrol increase, but won’t pay the price for decent produce. Rather eat less, but better quality food,” is his advice.

Many thanks to HARTIE EATER!  Here is there website: www.madibengpulse.co,.za

More News: Challenged to cater for your friends or events? We do have just great delivery service with the most finest specialities for ZAR130 (8 guests and more only)! But you can also order by phone for less than 8 and pick it up, from ZAR41! Hartbeespoort Dam Area only.

29. October 06. By the way, we got recommended by one of SA top magazines, TOP BIKE, for best food at the Hartbeespoort Dam! THX! Very much appreciated!