VdeV Midlands

Very attentive waiter named John. Butternut soup and chicken livers were divine for a light meal.

What an awesome restaurant. Food is from the top shelf, awesome atmosphere. The staff are quick helpful and always friendly and respectful. Very well run and managed. 100 % recommend you go try it out.

Best and most consistent service and food in the Midlands. Do yourself the favor and have the squid heads or pizza well just everything on the menu will be amazing. We'll done guys keeps going.

My husband and I were stopped outside the entrance and intimidated by a group of white males who made racist remarks to us. I was very disappointed by this. Due to this incident we decided not to stay long and just had a cup of coffee. I will not be going back due to this unpleasant experience.

It's a nice spot in the Midlands. The vibe and the hospitality is excellent. At the waitress was super on top. Despite that she was busy. I love the feel of feeling like you in a barn.

This is the best restaurant in the area. The food and service is exemplary. I will continue to come back for years to come

Bad service. Watched my beverage get cold. Also noticed managers lukewarm reception to people of colour …. How strange

Shocking experience. Wine glass had lipstick on it, we found a hair in the soup, the ribs were inedible and the rest of the food was bland and unexciting. No managers in sight and no reaction from anyone when we complained about the ribs. Really expensive for what it was and for a very unpleasant evening. I certainly would not recommend it to anyone.

Thank you to managent for the response. We we there on Thursday eve 29 July around 7pm.

Visited this place after driving around the Midlands Meander and most beautiful places around close at 16h00O but ended up there and I opted for pizza though it was not my first option. Anyway next I wanted something sweet and after a long discussions with the waiter on choices I ended up choosing strawberry cheesecake and to my disappointment I was served something I wouldn't call a cheesecake. It didn't look appertising as the bottom layer crust looked grayish and the strawberry sauce was smudged like somebody putted a finger in it as if they were checking it if it's still saucey which looked like some dry tomato sauce, I tried taking a bite size but there was no way I could eat that. Nicely told the waiter, I didn't like the cheesecake cause it was stale basically or simply put it was made 2 weeks ago and was no longer for human consumption. Waiter understood and the Manager thought there was nothing wrong with the cheesecake "according to me" he said and I thought to myself WOW I wonder how many people buy and eat stale cheesecake in that place and don't say cause according to the Manager it's still fine to be sold to them but was so quick to give a refund. I wonder who even makes that thing and that poor slice or square thing costed R70 which for me would have costed atleast R20 too much even. First time there but would return for their pizza I'll give them credit for it.

We had a meal at the restaurant on Saturday evening 25th September.
I ordered the pork rib eye steak. Not a good choice.
The pork was so smothered and overpowered with a basting sauce that steak could well have been horse meat, beef, lamb or poultry.
I had one mouthful and that is all I could manage.
It has to be the worst meal I have had anywhere

Excellent food, excellent service and an excellent atmosphere. Best ribs I've had in a long time. A definite must if you are in the midlands!

Charles runs an awesome restaurant. Food is fabulous, service is very good, prices average, lovely fire places, all the Covid protocol in place. A really wonderful treat to eat out or take away from. Definitely 5 star worth a drive from Howick to dine there ️

Unfortunately all the efforts of the awesome management and staff are completely overshadowed by the general attitude, actions and obnoxiousness of the owner. If you are looking for an anything goes kind of environment, where the customer experience is not a priority, then this is the establishment for you. To maximize your experience, be sure to get drunk with the owner, he has your back. Very disappointed.

Dined there this weekend. There was a woman using loud vulgar language close to young children. A polite and conscientious gentleman intervened and asked her to stop. We then watched in disgust as the intoxicated restaurant owner chose to defend his rude and vulgar friends and asked the polite gentleman to leave. The staff and manager (who were amazing) watched helplessly as the owner undermined and embarrassed them. It ruined our meal and experience.

Just commented on "Sapore" but glad VdeV has updated Maps. The best, delicious food, warm cozy fires, good wine, great company. Management present, staff wonderful!

5 star for the food and extra more stars for the staff and their Manager.

I gave this review 1 star because of the owner. I went to collect a take-away order at the bar and witnessed the owner kick out a patron for requesting consideration and respect.

The owner was entertaining his 2 friends and one of them a "lady" felt it appropriate to speak very loudly and crassly pepper her speech with derogatory language. I could not bear the profanity and neither did the other tables including a family table with children under 13 years old.

I hope the owner, now sober, would reflect on the bullying he and the friends dished out to all of us including the gentleman who tried to point out the indecency and was verbally attacked.

Waitress was not friendly and got our order wrong. She also did not know what's on the menu nor what the name of the place meant or stand for. I ordered jalapeno poppers wrapped in bacon and grilled to share, because my wife is gluten intolerant and this we told her upon ordering. It came deep fried in crumbs. After this she said the bacon is inside, which it wasn't. She was the only waitress there on a Saturday afternoon. Worst service in a long time. I love jalapeno poppers and regularly order it. These poppers were not impressive at all, neither was the calamari starter which my wife had to order because of the crumbs on the poppers.

For the main meal, we didn't receive any salt or tomato sauce. Upon request, she brought us a small bowl of tomato sauce which was only enough for one person.

One starter, main course and drink each and the bill amounted to almost R500 and i only had the plain chicken burger.

Utterly disappointing experience.

Great food, and ambience. The sushi was really tasty, however the portions are small compared to the likes of "Ocean basket" and other seafood restaurants. The pizza is amazing, crispy base and great toppings.