Grub and Vine in Bree Street Cape Town - not worth the money

It was supposed to be a special celebratory meal for our family before we were to attend the graduation ceremony of our youngest daughter who flew in specialy from KZN.

The food was not worth the price we paid. E.g. one really does not expect hake as the line fish on a supposedly fine-dining menu. The fish tasted very fishy so I question the freshness.

The 1st waiter who served us, Tshebang, was very friendly and helpful but the waiter who took over from him was too talkative and trying to be matey with us while rushing us to order.

Ordering wine was a problem. The website clearly states "no corkage but bring one buy one is acceptable" . We brought wine and then it turned out to be an issue...we had to send poor Tshebang to the manager? 2x and show a printscreen before they were willing to let us have our own wine.

Then, whe we chose the "buy one" wine, it was not available.

2 of us ordered the chicken to be told by the too talkative waiter that he would have to go and check if chicken was available. We knew it should be available as one of the chefs were cleaning a whole bunch of chickens as we walked in.

I could go on e/g that 2 of the plates were chipped.

It was really not a good experience.. We were very disappointed and will not recommend Grub and Vine to anyone.

What made it even worse was that we were the ONLY party in the main restaurant so it was not as if these things happened because of having to service many customers