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Les Creatifs Restaurant

Reviewers' Choice 2023 - Top 100
Contemporary Fine Dining French
Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, Corner Of Hobart Road &, Grosvenor Rd, Bryanston, Sandton, 2191, South Africa
(477 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 (477)

4.6 out of 5.0
Based on the past 12 months
Food 4.7
Value 4.4
Service 4.6
Ambience 4.5
  • Lwando M. Dined: 2 days ago
    4.3
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 4.0
    Ambience 4.0

    Reviewed on: Sat 01 Mar 25
    Nice and intimate. Great vibe. Star of the night is definitely the food. Their main priority is The Food - The Food - The Food and they did not fail. Every meal is worth having seconds. Great overall experience. If you want good food, don’t think twice. Also, cocktails are amazing.

  • Phakanyiswa M. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    4.7
    Food 5.0
    Value 0.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 4.0
  • heinrich L. Dined: 1 week ago
    3.8
    Food 4.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 4.0
    Ambience 3.0
  • Carolina S. Dined: 1 week ago
    1.3
    Food 1.0
    Value 1.0
    Service 2.0
    Ambience 1.0

    Reviewed on: Sat 22 Feb 25
    This was a very disappointing experience for fine dining. The food was average. The calamari was inedible, chewy and blunt. The starter was supposed to be tuna tartare but they didn’t have tuna so it was trout, not even salmon. We were the only table at the restaurant + 1 couple, so no atmosphere at all. The bathrooms are outside of the restaurant, the centre’s bathrooms and they were so dirty. Not the most pleasant walk to the bathrooms either. The only good thing was our waiter who was really trying but staff in general, inattentive. I wish I would had read the bad reviews before booking.

  • Marcus B. Dined: 1 week ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0
  • Nelisa D. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    1
    Food 1.0
    Value 1.0
    Service 1.0
    Ambience 1.0

    Reviewed on: Wed 19 Feb 25
    I had a terrible experience at this establishment. I was there to celebrate my birthday and it did not feel special at all. The waiters are not attentive to the patrons, toilet is in the mall, the food made me terribly sick and they charged me double on my bottle of wine thinking I wouldn’t notice. Not worth the money and I will definitely not come back I would give it a zero if I could

  • Luthando Chris V. Dined: 1 month ago
    4.8
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Mon 17 Feb 25
    Fantastic and beautiful culinary experience, quality, delectable taste and sophisticated food experience that was deserving of every single penny and minute spent!

  • Fiona S. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    4.5
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 4.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sun 16 Feb 25
    Superb food. Lovely space. Very good service if a tad over-eager at times (it’s not necessary to enquire if I’m enjoying each course, the question always asked when my mouth was full). Pricey but worth it. Highly recommended

  • Zuki N. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sun 16 Feb 25
    All round gorgeous experience

  • Geraldine H. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sat 15 Feb 25
    Excellent experience all round.

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