So I won't lie to you when I say my mouth wasn't watering the entire time while doing this blogpost, just by looking at these pictures and thinking back to the lovely smells and taste of glorious food and desserts we had the night of the #hungryforhalaalmeetup.
Yes! I was fortunate enough to get invited to the second #hungryforhalaalmeetup, it was the launch of a new menu and this time at a restaurant I've always wanted to go to but just never got around doing so
The Butchers Wife.
Yes! I was fortunate enough to get invited to the second #hungryforhalaalmeetup, it was the launch of a new menu and this time at a restaurant I've always wanted to go to but just never got around doing so
The Butchers Wife.
The Butchers Wife is not called the Belgravia road charm for nothing, it's a unique & family orientated cafe' with a home away from home atmosphere.
On the night of the launch I was running late and really thought I wasn't going to make it yet still decided to go, I arrived there just after 6pm and as I entered I immediately loved the vibe and the cozy feel.
We were soon welcomed by Qudsiya and her husband Khalil who is the Butcher and owner of Pickers Meat Market which truly makes her the Butcher's Wife. Qudsiya welcomed and thanked us for joining and then spoke about what they've put together for us showcasing their new menu and she explained that they're doing a mini version as they wanted to fit in as many things as possible so we could try a variety.
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| The Butcher and his wife, very lovely people |
(If you would like to know more about TBW history, their vision etc go read up on @Hungryforhalaal's blog here or you can visit their website at thebutcherswife.co.za)
Our Menu for the eve
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We were also informed that there will be a competition running and the person who shared the most about the evening on social media would win a dinner for two at TBW, check us out snapping away on this pic. But I promise you we don't even need a competition to take pics and share on social media because we all do it naturally #foodies
Now we getting to the interesting part of the night, food!
Our first course for the night was the:
Our first course for the night was the:
Antipasti Platter
If you know me then you'll know that I love anything seafood and mushrooms are another favourite, I mean before I knew I was pregnant with Shaz that was the first thing I craved,haha. So when the antipasti platter arrived I couldn't wait, I'm talking about crumbed mushrooms, pizza sticks, chicken livers, mussel bake & prawn poppers. Oh my, everything was delicious, yes for the crumbed mushrooms, if you love Nando's chicken livers you'll love their's too and the mussel bake in a creamy garlic sauce just the way I like it. The pizza sticks served with sweet chillie sauce and prawn poppers was something different and yes I had to stop myself because there were more food coming.
Pizza Boards
Okay to be honest I've never heard of a person that doesn't love pizza, check that big smile on my face you'd swear I never ate that day. Each one of us received a pizza board which included a slice of vegeterian, seafood, chicken and beef. They were all yummy but it was a close call between the spicy prawn and the vegeterian primavera pizza.
Pasta Bowls
Too cute not to capture!
Speghetti & meatballs, chicken n pesto, seafood and most peoples favourite the macaroni cheese al fourno were served in miniature pasta bowls on a board. To be honest I couldn't decide I love traditional speghetti and meatballs, I adore mac n cheese but I thought the chicken n pesto was so delicious until I tasted the seafood pasta. Okay, I know I'm confusing so just go try it yourself, thank me later.
Meat Platter
Our fourth course was the epic meat platter: beef ribs, lamb chops, sliced steak & mini beef burgers in BBQ or roast chilli basting served with french fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings and a selection of sauces.
Meat is everyone's favourite and I mentioned that seafood is my favourite and I usually say that I'll choose it anytime over meat but Oh my The Butcher's Wife had me thinking otherwise when I tasted the steak strips that melted so softly in my mouth and then the most delicious ribs I've ever had. I'm not even going to try and explain it because I won't do it justice.The sweet potato fries, mini burger and the rest of the platter was delish too.
I didn't try the spicy ribs though because I was stuffed but the others were very satisfied.
Dessert Boards & Milk shake shooters
So after the meat platter I was sure that I won't even get a morsel of anything in and I was ready to say my goodbyes but I have a sweet tooth so it wasn't difficult to convince me to stay. They say there' always space for dessert hehe, that's so true I won't lie I absolutely enjoyed it. On the dessert board we got carrot cake, churros with chilli chocolate sauce and a chocolate banana springroll with ice-cream. Everything was devine, it was my first time I had churros and it was lovely but what can I say the chocolate springroll was just amazingly heavenly, I had chocolate springroll before but this was exquisite and everyone agreed.
While we enjoyed the desserts out came the milkshake shooters, a variety of flavours were served. I'm sure they all taste good, I tried the turkish delight and it was yum.
Then the winner of the social media competition had to be announced and to my surprise it was ME, I was so happy and delighted because winning ment me spoiling my hubby and myself to the succulent ribs and more. I was informed later that week that the price is a R500 voucher at The Butchers Wife, Yeah to me for showing the night off on social media :) big smile.
(Owner of The Butcher's WIfe) Qudsiyah and I just after they announced I won :)
Mind the tired eyes I ate myself to sleep
And if all of that wasn't enough to top it off each of us received a Gift bag and mini Cappuccino's for take-away.
The gift bag consisted of a buthcers wife apron, cutting board, TBW brand house water, two homemade sauces and a meal voucher.
A Big Shukran/ Thank you to @hungryforhalaal and The Butchers Wife for organising this meetup I really had an awesome time. The entire experience from the first meal to the last was amazing. Thank you again for your warm hospitality and making my first experience extraordinary.
Attendees at Hungryforhalaal meetup
Maryann from ilovefoodiesct, shaqct, smileyaleemct, Dilshad from hungryforhalaal, kauthar_b, inthemidnightkitchen, capetown_halaal
Hope you enjoyed this post.
xoxo Nadia SS
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