The Bailey on Cape Town’s trendy Bree Street has three floors of delicious, starting with The Café on the ground, The Brasserie one flight up, and The Old Bailey Whiskey Bar at the top. Start your journey here:
, opposite Heritage Square, where his original Chefs Warehouse was established. It is three floors of delicious, starting with The Café on the ground floor, followed by The Brasserie one flight up, and again a flight up to The Old Bailey Whiskey Bar.The Bailey partners
It is, says Liam, based on his favourite London restaurant, The Wolseley. On offer are light meals and patisserie.The building was built in 1862 and is believed originally to have been a house; it was last a women’s clinic. Over the decades it has changed and been renovated and today just the front is the original building. The look and feel of The Bailey was a joint vision of the Tomlins and their partners; and they all particularly wanted the various levels to be different.
It is refined, though not snooty. The waiters are smartly dressed in black and white uniforms, and service is knowledgeable and polished – go old school and order the steak tartare, made at the table, or the crêpes Suzette to see just how polished, with the dramatic flambé part of the show.But first, Les entrées. I start with the beetroot tatin and as divine on the palate as it is, it vies with the artichoke risotto for attention.
Because you cannot possibly leave without a visit to your table by the dessert trolley, we order crêpes Suzette, naturally, and a tasting of everything on the cart. The finely layered opera cake is especially good. ‘I call [it] the Forever 30 bar,’ says Liam. ‘It’s for people like me who are in their 50s who pretend they are still in their 30s, who like to have service, who like to have smart waiters in uniforms, who don’t like it too noisy.’
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