Knife Restaurant has been awarded two stars (out of three) in the leading, annual independent restaurant guide, Rossouw’s Restaurants 2012.

The sticky, sweet ribs at Knife are out of this world. This is the place in Century City for top quality steak in a smart, yet understated dining area. The masculine feel makes it perfect for a business dinner, but still comfortable for families and couples.

Eckhard picked a winner in his characteristic “steakhouse” choice category this month. Knife is a fascinating experiment in a not-quite-steakhouse vibe, managing to combine beyond excellent steakhouse fare with a somewhat upmarket and trendy décor, good service and thoughtful design under the slightly vague rubric of “New York loft meets Deep South smokehouse”.

“Last night, we had another great food and wine pairing dinner, (and a great deal of fun) this time at Knife restaurant, which is in Canal Walk and is situated behind the Crystal Towers Hotel, where there is lots of parking. Knife has a cool cocktail bar and is unashamedly a steak house, but one with a difference. We sat with the winemaker, DP Burger, and his wife and we had lots and lots to chat about with this charming couple, whose farm is in Franschhoek.

From healthy choices to belly-buster breakfast options like Bubble and Squeak to Corned beef hash brown with a fried egg or smoked BBQ baby back ribs or bagels. For the needy – the best Bloody Mary in town – in jugs if preferred. Plenty of undercover parking. Knife waitron will stamp your parking ticket. WE SAY: Well-presented, no-frills. Good quality and value…

The local radio station Radio Tygerberg, on their program “kosklits” , went to Knife Restaurants recently to find out a bit more about the delicious rumors that they have been hearing about…

food In this States-style smokehouse, chef Jonathan Japha foregoes the bite-sized titbits he’s become known for at Fork in favour of man-sized, meatatarian delights. American favourites like buffalo chicken wings with blue-cheese sauce and prawn gumbo enjoy plenty of menu space, but the red-meat offerings definitely steal the show. The …

Knife Restaurant is an American smoke-house themed restaurant, known particularly for its very tasty BBQ-sauce marinated and smoked ribs, and is a sister restaurant to Fork, a tapas style restaurant in Long Street, described as a “plateful on a fork”.

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Whatever happened to “I want that one”? Remember, when you didn’t know what a specific delicacy was on a menu? That time when you wanted every scrumptious cake on the rotating wheel at a bakery, despite not knowing what any of it was called? You simply pointed at it and said…

Best restaurant frequented in years. Classy, comfortable, top notch food, prices decent, welcoming. I believe is big brother to FORK in town, very complimentary…

Brother of the most famous Fork in Long Street, Knife is the latest addition to the silverware empire. It’s not your typical steakhouse – delicate calamari with Creole mayo..

Many of you will know of Fork restaurant in Long Street – one of Cape Town’s original Tapas bars. Ed Saunders has now opened a companion restaurant in the Crystal Towers Hotel at Canal Walk, called Knife, but the concept is not tapas.

Happy to report a delicious meal here: fried calamari to start were tender and crispy, followed by great smoky ribs, good burger, and possibly some of the best onion rings in the (Cape-to-Century) city…

What do I like about Knife? I like the fact that someone is trying something new. Many people enjoy meat (obviously not on Mondays) but are a bit over the traditional steakhouse vibe…

Bianca Coleman from the Weekend Argus visited Knife restaurant recently to check it out. She must have really enjoyed it as she came back again with a friend and wrote this nice article for “The Good Weekend” section in the Weekend Argus.

We think it’s the perfect heading for an article about our restaurant, “A pleasure to put the Knife in”.

Before the team from CapeTownMagazine.com came to Knife Restaurant they dropped by at their favorite lunch and tapas bar on Long street in Cape Town, Fork. Read their article on Tapas Lunches at Fork here.

The team from CapeTownMagazine.com has visited Knife restaurant. Read what they thought of Knife restaurant here.

Dinning-out visited our restaurant and this is what they had to say about us…

The best online magazine from Cape Town, CapeTownMagazine.com visited our new restaurant. Having been long standing fans of our Fork restaurant we had to ask them what they thought of our latest venture. Read all about it on CapeTownmagazine.com.