{"id":70155,"date":"2019-06-19T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=70155"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:08:33","slug":"traditional-table-side-service-at-belmond-mount-nelsons-historic-lord-nelson-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/traditional-table-side-service-at-belmond-mount-nelsons-historic-lord-nelson-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Table-side Service at Belmond Mount Nelson\u2019s Historic Lord Nelson Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel<\/strong><\/a>, Cape Town, revives a piece of culinary history and gourmand tradition at its 120-year old Lord Nelson Restaurant. Introducing a menu of bold classic dishes and the mid-17th-century French art of \u2018gu\u00e9ridon\u2019 or tableside service.<\/p>\n

Traditional Table-side Service<\/h4>\n

Guests are greeted by a soothing soundtrack, courtesy of resident pianist, Henry Dike, before being seated at crisp white linen tables cocooned by elegant wood panelling; where classics such as Beef Wellington are given their final flourishes from wooden handcrafted trolleys and Baked Alaska is flamb\u00e9ed at the table.<\/p>\n

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Executive Chef, Rudi Liebenberg says, \u201cIt is the return to simplicity that I love about our new dining concept. This elegant tableside action is perfectly fitting for the old-world charms of this great room. I hope guests will enjoy the food and atmosphere as much as our staff have enjoyed mastering this wonderful service tradition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Classics Revived at the Lord Nelson Restaurant<\/h4>\n

Chef Rudi\u2019s new menu is bold and brimming with classic choices, such as, Beef Wellington made from pasture-reared beef fillet from Spier\u2019s Farmer Angus, covered with a braised short rib, prosciutto and mushroom duxelle, encased in light puff pastry and other popular dishes – Caesar salad, steak tartare, prawn cocktail and cr\u00e8me brul\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

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Entr\u00e9e of herb-crusted roast rack of Karoo lamb with cauliflower Mornay and main of crown roasted chicken served with chicken thigh tortellini and a trolley laden with unusual cheeses for dessert; all feature on the special tableside menu.<\/p>\n

Dine with a Sense of History<\/h4>\n

Belmond Mount Nelson\u2019s General Manager, Xavier Lablaude, reminds us that the room dates back to the hotel\u2019s inauguration in 1899, when it was the original dining hall, and where Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Marlene Dietrich would have once soaked up its atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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Xavier says, \u201cMore recently this is the room where in 1994, then-President Nelson Mandela welcomed international leaders for the first World Economic Forum to be held on African soil. You can feel this sense of history when you dine here and its fascinating to imagine the conversations what would have taken place within these walls.\u201d<\/p>\n

The elegant, wood-panelled room is adorned with glittering chandeliers, remarkable pressed ceilings depicting the history of the British Empire\u2019s South African colonies and a minstrels\u2019 gallery.<\/p>\n

Lablaude adds: \u201cIt still has the wooden deckchairs once used by First Class passengers of the Union-Castle shipping lines.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adding a leafy allure to the d\u00e9cor are three stunning botanical tapestries of indigenous flowers created by artists of the Keiskamma Trust, from the rural village of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n

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MASTERFUL PERFORMANCES<\/h4>\n

The Lord Nelson Restaurant will be hosting a series of Classical Music Evenings with soprano and pianist Lisa Engelbrecht and mezzo soprano Lindsay Thomson from \u2018The Opera Angels\u2019, with a repertoire ranging from opera arias and classic European art songs to Broadway hits and contemporary favourites.<\/p>\n

The concerts take place on 22 and 29 June and on 27 July there will be a special performance with the Cape Opera Ensemble.<\/p>\n

RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lord Nelson Restaurant opens Monday to Saturday for dinner from 18h30.<\/p>\n

Please contact Restaurant Reservations on 021 483-1948 or via e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town, revives a piece of culinary history and gourmand tradition at its 120-year old Lord Nelson Restaurant. Introducing a menu of bold classic dishes and the mid-17th-century French art of \u2018gu\u00e9ridon\u2019 or tableside service. Traditional Table-side Service Guests are greeted by a soothing soundtrack, courtesy of resident pianist, Henry Dike, before being seated at crisp white linen tables cocooned by elegant wood panelling; where classics such as Beef Wellington are given their final flourishes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70528,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70155\/revisions\/70528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}