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Pier

Reviewers' Choice 2025 - Top 50 Reviewers' Choice 2024 - Top 50
Contemporary Fine Dining
Location Pointer 3CVC+MF Cape Town, South Africa
4.8
(3093 reviews)
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  • Great Views
  • Gourmet Guide Plated
  • Reviewers' Choice 2023 - Top 50
  • Reviewers' Choice 2024 - Top 50
  • Reviewers' Choice 2025 - Top 50

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Pier is the latest venture by The La Colombe Group, located on the Pierhead at the V&A Waterfront. Headed by John Norris Rogers serving a multi course tasting menu inspired by the sea.

Gourmet Guide™ Description

Entering the intimate restaurant that embraces the working harbour, you’re rendered breathless. It’s a heart-stopping, world-class view, and soon you’ll be appreciating cuisine of equal calibre.

PIER has elevated the culinary offering of the V&A Waterfront since opening two years ago. The chef’s menu begins with an ensemble of canapés, innovatively presented in eye-catching white pottery that depicts the ocean floor. Every aspect of this dining discovery has been carefully curated and shaped by chef John Norris-Rogers’ South African heritage and international travels. The snoek-filled takoyaki, cooked tableside and served with a Cape Malay curry relish, shows Japanese influence. The sourdough with curried hake butter is a substantial wave, featuring seafood that’s been gently cured, smoked, and coated in a piquant sauce, finished at your table with aplomb. Alongside, there’s smoked mussel, chorizo, toasted yeast, and cultured butter.

The tandoori yellowfin tuna with avocado and chevra is savoury and smokey. A spice blend coats the tuna before searing. The tuna tartare is paired with a curry XO and yoghurt labneh, harmonising the spices with creaminess. Here is a dish that flawlessly demonstrates John’s ability to balance a hero ingredient with myriad accompaniments, ensuring the tuna holds its own without being overpowered. A coriander spuma and avocado crumbed with spices provide texture. The crunchy chevra mix comprises fried onion, garlic, and curry leaves, served separately so that you may add as little or as much as you like. The diner’s every whim has been considered. Wine pairings, like the service, are impeccable – intuitive and fuelled by passion and knowledge.

Opening Hours

  • Monday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00
  • Tuesday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00
  • Wednesday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00
  • Thursday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00
  • Friday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00
  • Saturday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00
  • Sunday 12h00 - 15h00 - 18h00 - 22h00

Reviews (3093)

4.8 out of 5.0
Based on the past 12 months
Food 4.9
Value 4.7
Service 4.9
Ambience 4.8
  • Gerda P. Dined: 2 days ago
    4.5
    Food 4.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Sonia B. Dined: 4 days ago
    4.3
    Food 4.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 3.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Erik W. Dined: 4 days ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Janice B. Dined: 6 days ago
    4.5
    Food 5.0
    Value 3.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Mon 02 Feb 26
    Magnificent in every way. The best meal and wine pairing you'll find in South Africa.

  • Cristina C. Dined: 5 days ago
    4.8
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 4.0
  • Vivien S. Dined: 5 days ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Jan E. Dined: 6 days ago
    4.5
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 4.0

    Reviewed on: Sun 01 Feb 26
    The sommelier was enthusiastic and his knowledge about wine and food was amazing! A lot of surprising presentations. The menu with wine pairing is not cheap but it s worth visiting.

  • Susanne W. Dined: 1 week ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sat 31 Jan 26
    Leila was as always a joy to listen to. Her service, her expertise and friendliness is wonderful. She made the wonderful evening even better. Thanks to the chef and the kitchen for a great dinner…. Only, please change the sauce to the quail. It is overpowering the delicate flavor of the meat and the langostine. we will be back

  • Andrew H. Dined: 1 week ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sat 31 Jan 26
    The most amazing dining experience. We started the evening slightly apprehensive about the menu, though every course turned out to be pure delight. The staff were amazing. It was my wife’s 60th Birthday in the middle of our Cape Town holiday. She said it was the best choice ever. Thanks Guys

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