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Les Créatifs Restaurant

Reviewers' Choice 2023 - Top 100
Contemporary Fine Dining French
52 Hobart Rd, Bryanston, Sandton, 2191, South Africa
(466 reviews)
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Attributes

  • Romantic
  • Gourmet Guide Plated
  • Reviewers' Choice 2023 - Top 100

Chef Wandile Mabaso is a creative food artist full of global experiences. He has vast international experience and has worked with internationally renowned Chefs in Michelin star restaurants in New York and Paris.

Classically trained in French cuisine, he currently specializes in contemporary French haute cuisine, where only the finest luxury ingredients are used and treated with extreme perfection in the most bespoke settings.

Today, Chef Wandile Mabaso is the owner of Les Créatifs Restaurant, which is shaking up the Johannesburg food scene with its unique offering: an experiential form of dining that takes guests on an exciting gastronomic journey.

Gourmet Guide Description

Wandile Mabaso – with his stellar pedigree, including stints at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris and New York – made waves on the Gauteng culinary scene when he transformed a former office space and opened Les Créatifs (The Creatives) five years ago.

This perfectionist chef has elevated his game in a four-course celebration of the African continent, applying his French-learned techniques while telling magical African stories through his food. Courses are named after the regions where the main ingredients are sourced – Dullstroom trout, Krugersdorp beef tongue and cheek, Delmas duck, and Cape lobster.

The Delmas duck is the pièce de résistance—a whole roasted duck topped with herbes de Provence from which the breast is removed and pan-fried, served with a naartjie gastrique and cumin lentils. The generous lobster tail is smoked and served with a Cape Malay-inspired jus, celeriac pureé, and fermented sorghum and samp risotto-style. Dessert tells the story of bees, using Dullstroom pollen honey with honey espuma, a pollen biscuit, and plum caviar, while the African Soprano is a take on the classic French opera cake, using chocolate sourced from Ghana along with amasi.

Reviews (466)

4.7 out of 5.0
Based on the past 12 months
Food 4.8
Value 4.5
Service 4.7
Ambience 4.6
  • Dr M. Dined: 6 days ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Moni P. Dined: 6 days ago
    1.3
    Food 1.0
    Value 1.0
    Service 2.0
    Ambience 1.0

    Reviewed on: Fri 24 Jan 25
    The meal started with a spiced and seasond butter. Thus the stale first entry did not have any taste any more. The menu continued with a random mixture of ingredients and finished with a very average desert. While one main dish was bad fatty meat and I returned it and the service managed this complaint very well, the second main dish of our table was so small that after the 4-course dinner, we left the restaurant still hungry. The price is high, so I expected more. There is no music, no bread refill and overall just ridicilously small portions.

  • Shadi M. Dined: 1 week ago
    4.3
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 4.0
    Ambience 4.0

    Reviewed on: Wed 22 Jan 25
    I believe this is the best restaurant in Jozi…always a delightful experience, love the ambiance, the service and the food is always outstanding. They nail it all the time. Highly recommended

  • Adrian T. Dined: 1 week ago
    3.5
    Food 5.0
    Value 3.0
    Service 4.0
    Ambience 2.0

    Reviewed on: Mon 20 Jan 25
    Food was excellent (particularly the goat), although the experience was let down by the fact that the ambience did not live up to the advertising on the website. - no ceramic art with only a few paintings on the walls, decor was limited, ceilings look like unfinished plastic pre-fab and cutlery was not what was expected for a 'fine dining' experience. Price point was high compared to other fine dining experiences.

  • Noluthando G. Dined: 1 week ago
    4.8
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sun 19 Jan 25
    Great food and ambience

  • Chulu N. Dined: 1 week ago
    4.3
    Food 4.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 3.0
  • Siyabonga Dined: 1 month ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Sandile X. Dined: 1 month ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Mon 09 Dec 24
    We had a lovely experience with my son on his 21st birthday

  • Rose M. Dined: 2 months ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Francois A. Dined: 2 months ago
    1.8
    Food 3.0
    Value 1.0
    Service 2.0
    Ambience 1.0

    Reviewed on: Sat 30 Nov 24
    Disappointing experience. Food is good, but all what is around is not enough for the price to pay.

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  • Monday CLOSED
  • Tuesday 17h30 - 23h00
  • Wednesday 17h30 - 23h00
  • Thursday 17h30 - 23h00
  • Friday 17h30 - 23h00
  • Saturday 17h30 - 23h00
  • Sunday CLOSED