New all-weather dining enclosure and panoramic views
Belthazar’s spectacular new all-weather dining enclosure on the terrace was launched in October. It is equipped with a mist cooling system and heaters and offers panoramic views of the Waterfront and Table Mountain.
Many glowing TripAdvisor reviews over the past year earned Belthazar a TripAdvisor 2016 Certificate of Excellence, a coveted seal of approval for its consistent delivery of excellence and quality customer experience.
In addition, Belthazar has again been honoured for its dedication to wine, in Wine Spectator’s 2016 Restaurant Wine List Awards. Having received the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for its wine list annually since 2012, this year Belthazar was presented with an even more prestigious award – the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence – awarded to a select group of 1,093 world-class restaurants globally. “These wine lists display excellent breadth across multiple winegrowing regions and/or significant vertical depth of top producers, along with superior presentation. Typically offering 350 or more selections, these restaurants are destinations for serious wine lovers, showing a deep commitment to wine, both in the cellar and through their service team”, said Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Wine Spectator.
Belthazar’s in-house master butcher ensures that the grain-fed Karan beef is hung on the carcass for three days, and then the Fillet, Sirloin, Rump and Rib-Eye are ‘wet-aged’, while the T-Bone, Chicago Cuts, Fillet on the Bone and Sirloin on the Bone are ‘dry-aged’ for a minimum of 28 days. In addition, Belthazar serves Australian-Tasmanian superior grass-fed marbled beef air-freighted from Cape Grim in the far north-west corner of Tasmania. Shaped by wild Southern Ocean swells, abundant rainfall and the cleanest air in the world, Cape Grim is the perfect place to grow superior beef. Belthazar’s extensive game menu includes ostrich, crocodile, springbok, kudu, impala, wildebeest, blesbok, gemsbok and eland.
Belthazar imports all its prawns and langoustines from Mozambique and only serves the freshest linefish available. For a real extravaganza, see Belthazar’s Royal Seafood Platter for Two. It includes a whole crayfish, two large langoustines, six medium langoustines, two tiger giant prawns, 2 tiger medium prawns, two king prawns and four queen prawns – perfectly prepared and served with lemon butter, garlic butter and per-peri sauce.
The wine experience at Belthazar is second to none with wine - wine everywhere - tempting wine-lovers with the largest wine-by-the-glass bar in the world. The restaurant’s innovative nitrogen-infused wine-by-the-glass bar serves up to 250 of the Cape's finest wines by the glass, patrons are expertly advised by trained sommeliers on a wine-list of up to 600 fine wines and sought-after rare vintages, and the wines are professionally stored in a designer vinoteque and served in Riedel glassware which enhances the wine of your choice.
With a superb wine selection by single varietal, blend and style, the state-of-the-art wine list at Belthazar highlights vintage ratings, critics’ ratings, wine awards and taste indicators. The wine list is compiled by André Lourens, the knowledgeable and experienced group beverage manager for the Slick Restaurant Group.
In addition to its wine list, Belthazar also specialises in whiskies/whiskeys, single malts, brandies, Cognac, Armagnac, Calvados, liqueurs, beers (traditional and craft) and ciders.
Belthazar also showcases a glittering store of Riedel glassware, wine aprons, corkscrews, cookbook, gourmet sauces and exclusive gourmet knives, a Biltong Bar and a retail wine shop. At the Belthazar Wine Shop, patrons can purchase any of the 600 plus wines on the wine list – to either be collected or dropped off at their hotels or their homes.
Belthazar is owned by the Slick Restaurant Group which also owns two other restaurants at the V&A Waterfront: Balducci and Gibson’s Gourmet Burgers and Ribs, as well as a self-catering B&B in Franschhoek called Auberge Daniella.
