At The Foundry In Green Point

Beluga In Green Point. Or Greenpoint.

I have long considered myself a “creative”, a free spirit and someone who thinks outside the box. As a young impressionable chap, I remember scratching my head at the concept of “long play records” or “LP’s” as we cool kids called them back in the 80′s.

“These things are so impractical”, I remember saying. “Surely they could come in a more compact disk?”

Then there was the time I was trying to watch German pornography on a poor quality VHS tape. “Bah humbug” I said aloud.

“Why can’t this be displayed on a high quality disk which we would then call a DVD, for no apparent reason?”

Yes, these were just some of the many crazy and “out there” ideas I came up with whilst growing up.

As a creative, I enjoy mingling with other like-minded people, and so it came to pass that we arrived at Beluga, a rather trendy little spot at the Foundry, just off Somerset Road, Green Point, where many a creative can be found eating sushi or drinking beer.

Alex the manager seated us at a very exclusive spot upstairs, and The Girlfriend, The Brand Ambassador and myself prepared to tuck into sushi, one of Beluga’s specialties.

Although reasonably priced by Cape Town’s standards, Beluga also offers great specials from 5-7pm every day. Or evening, if you really want to be pedantic about it.

This include massive discounts on their sushi dishes (up to 50% off), which I obviously took advantage of.

The restaurant has a great ambience, no overtly loud background music to speak of, but not uncomfortably quiet either. You can talk about your erection problems or your recent bout of halitosis without fear of anyone hearing you.

The food was to my rather high standard, the sushi was fresh, tight and compact, and the service by our deaf waiter was quite superb (he hovered around every 5 minutes or so without being overly annoying)

For dessert, The Girlfriend and I shared a chocolate truffle cake, a richly layered truffle cake with a sweet chocolate filling, which is probably why it is called a chocolate truffle cake.

Downstairs afterward, we skipped and pranced over to the bar, for a cognac and cigar. Regrettably there were no cigars, the cigarette vending machines were broken and the bar staff didn’t want to hand out entjies (loose cigarettes) to The Brand Ambassador, who desperately needed his nicotine fix. So that was the only down side then. No entjies at the bar.

Otherwise, it was all good though. Shaun recommends.

What: Beluga
Where: The Foundry, Prestwich Street, Green Point
How Much: + – R180 per person. (That includes a few stiff Jamesons)

Shaun Oakes

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