Always a good dining experience. We have dine here for a food and whiskey pairing as well as a la carte. The food and drink pairings is so far the best. The meals are well prepared and always delicious. They are generous with the portions as well. It is advised to make a booking in advance, they do get busy some days.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Totally Amazing!! Thank you all for the most devine food ever and the best service too!! You guys rock!!!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
So, for my wife's 50th I decided to take her to an old gem of the Pretoria gastronomic landscape. And it didn't disappoint, the setting is rustic and unassuming, which I think is just to lull one into thinking the food will be decent but not great etc. Well, the food is superb, I had the seafood pasta but there were 4 or 5 dishes that I'll be going for over the next few months... (ostrich, warthog and springbok based dishes that sounded awesome). Service was great too, definitely worth a visit, a highlight for sure.
Food: 5
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 4
Fantastic experience here. The staff were fantastic and the food utterly delicious. So good we took my in laws there two days later.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
R 500+
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Mushrooms Starter
We chose La Pentola for our wedding anniversary. They did not disappoint us at all. The waters were magnificent. The atmosphere was awesome. The food was absolutely delicious.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit!!!
Thanks for making our anniversary special!
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
I randomly visit la pentola with colleagues or privately. The restaurant never disappoints, daily specials are great. My favorite is hake with rice, potato croquet, sautéed veggies and generous mushroom/shrimp sauce. Complimentary bread is amazing.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4
This is a small, good quality restaurant tucked away just off Soutpansberg road. It was very quiet when we dined here, but the music was good and the artistic displays were quite interesting. I only ate specials this time, kicking off with the enjoyable crocodile tail with granadilla and kiwi fruit starter, followed by a generous sicilian hake, which deserved a bit more flavour but was still well prepared. We happily washed this down with a very decent Shiraz. One of the secret skills that the restaurant takes pride in is good wine pairings. It is definitely worth experiencing their culinary offerings!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4
We attended one of their gourmet dinners; great menu with food that had outdone our expectations.
The wine pairing was also very complimentary to the dishes.
Booking was easy and the service staff were friendly and professional.
Beautiful.
I found the staff to be friendly, helpful and informative. The environment is nice and cosy and I love that social distancing between tables was taken into consideration.
Something I haven’t seen in restaurant’s are small bottles of sanitiser placed on the tables which La Pentola has done, so super thumbs up on that point.
I found the cocktails to be potent but I can’t say they were a show stopper in terms of taste.
We had the wine pairing evening, the dessert and shrimp gooseberry salad which blew my taste buds into another galaxy!
The steak was more well done than medium to rare (was made to Chef Shane’s preference) and being a rare steak lover that was quite disappointing.
The risotto was underdone, I couldn’t eat it. I understand it should be somewhat al dente but I swear that was very much close to raw and I found it to be very unpleasant.
Overall, it was a lovely evening thanks to the dishes that blew my mind, the atmosphere that was warm and inviting and the company that made it wonderful.
