baobab cafe & grill

i’ve been here years ago, but thistimeit was amazing. awesome food (maluti chicken), awesome nighttime view out on the deck, friendly waiters, blanket (was very appreciated!), and overall a fantastic evening! well done guys 😄

this place will make you forget that you are still inside menlyn mall, been here about 3 times, and eachtimewas amazing. the atmosphere is great, there is different types of seating to accommodate different groups' needs, from quite and intimate to chilled relaxed outdoors.  the food was great. if you  really love meat, this is  the place to go to. there is quite a wide variety of stuff to choose from. the service was also great, i see myself coming here over and over again for that maluti chicken.

the food was amazing, drinks were amazing. the service though was the opposite. we asked for a table in the smoking section where we waited almost 45 minutes for our drinks and to be seated at a proper table, eventually the manager made sure we got a table. when it wastimeto leave, our waiter demanded that we give him a larger tip on top of the generous 1 we had already given him.

good food, great view had a bone
marrow and fries. wasn't my firsttimethere wanted to experiment with the menu and i ended up trying the bone marrow i did enjoy it

firsttimereview for baobab. thistimearound i only went for a quick cocktail and awesome sunset! service was up to scratch today...had some issues in the past, but more pros than cons.

dishes i will recommend : mussel pot (rich in flavour...if you like garlic 😀), fillet (med rare of course), oxtail potjie, bone marrow ribeye (finger licking good) and a few more.

go and try them out. good view and ambience!

12/01/2018
went with friends for supper. first the hostess took us to a wrong table. had to get up 5 mins later to get moved to another table.
food was not as good as before (had a chicken, avo, pineapple salad - still searching for the avo).
won’t be going back soon...

i went to the wonderboom baobab a longtimeago so i pretty excited to come here. i decided to order their oxtail with mash and pumpkin. the pumpkin and mash were just absolutely amazing, i couldn't get enough of them. the oxtail on the other hand was just okay. thr drink i ordered was a strawberry supernova and it was amazing and it was in such a large glass. i was totally pleased. after my meal i ordered malva pudding with custard and cream. the cream was a bit sour but our waitress was very helpfull and she quickly got us a new side of cream.

i love baobab.

every singletimethat i have been here i have always had an amazing meal. the waiters and front of house etc. are all very friendly and attentive.

i have had their snails, carpaccio, curries, potjies, calamari, steaks and a whole lot more. every single meal was divine.

most recently my partner and i went there for dinner and we ordered the peri peri chicken livers for starters and the neptune platter with a side of crispy roasted potatoes and onions as well as creamed spinach.

the livers were really good and all the fish and seafood were cooked to perfection and the seasoning was on point too. not one complaint.

they have an extensive wine list and the waiters are excellent at recommending which wine to try. the decor and ambiance is romantic and warm.

i always look forward to coming to boabab because i know that whatever i order, it will be amazing!

came back to baobab cause i wanted to try something that was their specialty instead of the ubiquitous two eggs and bacon i had the first time. now baobab is pretty nice from the outside coming in. but oh my god. once you take that right turn to the top floor, and you see the how well the white snake skin leather matches the modern twist on traditional african decor. and the view. honestly in terms of ambiance i haven't seen anything like it. for the firsttimei actually bothered to remember the waiter's name. simon. friendly, explained everything i asked of him wonderfully. really made me feel like i was sitting in my own dinning room. one of the highlights of my experience.

sadly, that is where the positives end. i ordered the oxtail. now in the restaurant's defense, i ordered chips as a side and that was my mistake. should have had the rice instead. but they still weren't great. in fact they where of the same quality as the local sphatlo shops in mamelodi. i expected better. and as for the meat itself, it was beautifully cooked. fell right of the bone. but the flavour was just lacking a bit. (touch of garlic would do it nicely). now i am seriously nit picking here but i didn't like the fact that there where small holes on the table cloth and my tablespoon still had fingerprints on the handle.

all in all i somewhat enjoyed myself. i just know that this place can blow me away one day. i am gonna give it one more shot before i decide to write it off completely.

as annoying as menlyn mall is, this is a restaurant i don't mind dragging myself through that mall for. gorgeous decor and delicious food. i am yet to have a bad meal at baobab they honestly take a little piece of me everytimei go there.
their menu offers a wide variety of food - which immediately makes you think that they are confused and don't know where to focus but never that!
the only down side is probably point out would be the fact that the whole staff will literally stop at your table to ask of everything is okay, literally every 5 minutes, always when you've just taken a bite of food 😂... can we please enjoy our meals without the 5 min check up from everyone?! 😂
you definitely need to give this one a try though, the walk through that unnecessarily huge mall is worth it.
ps- try their oxtail poitjie

really loved it here. it was my firsttimeeating here. i had the nachos and my friend had the pulled pork wrap. firstly i just wanna say that the portion size was amazing. the nachos tasted amazing. i loved the creaminess in it, it was cheesy and very filling.

the pulled pork was also amazing despite the fact that it was really messy 😂 it was an awesome dish. the wine we had was also amazing (leopard leap merlot)

don't get me wrong, the food was magnificent, but there was to many other factors. firstly, the "hostess" if you can call her that, did not seem to want to help us. finally, got a dirty table. the waitress, to our order just to later come back and tell us my dad has to change his order, as they did not have his product. all the food did not come at the same time. dad was almost done eating, by thetimemy food arrived. lastly, our waitress did not know how to use the pay point. we have been supporting baobab for years but it has degraded a whole lot. it was good while it lasted.

one of the best meals i've had in a while!
this is the firsttimei have visited baobab in the 3 years while studying in pretoria and i have definitely been missing out..

the most tranquil setting, looking over pretoria with a menu that leaves you wanting to try one of everything.

i had a sirloin steak with camembert cheese and cranberry sauce with calamari, as a combo! it was incredible!!

my friends had sushi and raved the entire evening about how tasty it was.

quick service and you definitely pay for what you're receiving. i will be back soon!!
jenny da costa

wow wow wow. i loved the decor. the paid attention to detail to all the little things. the food was delicious and served in a pleasing way. little potjie pots for stewed meals. now i really want to get some of those for home. service wasn't too bad either. the portions of food were generous and everything was seasoned except for the sirloin my fiance had. the lemon butter sauce that came with the dozen prawns was a little too lemony. however, for the 1sttimein a long time, all member of my family finished their entire meal despite the large portions. delicious! keep up the good work and 1 critique, please keep your bathrooms clean. it's the only reason why i didn't score you 4,5.

baobab has had me coming back since the firsttimei had dinner there in 2008. the food has stayed delicious and the ambience has always stayed laid back but exciting at the same time. the menu offers a wide variety of choices to soothe any craving whether it be delicious steaks, fish, chicken, yummy salads and even sushi! the cocktails are really amazing and its worth going just for great sundowners overlooking the menlyn area. we've also never had a problem with service. goodness that keeps on giving!

great atmosphere, cocktails and deserts.  the lasttimei dined at boabab menlyn, i was a bit disappointed in the service.  i ordered a chicken schnitzel and my friends ordered steak.  my food wasn't exceptional and non of my friends mentioned that theirs was sublime.  from a restaurant of this call i expected more and would rather recommend the branch in wonderboom, if you are willing to drive a few km's.