Moyo, the culinarily diverse African restaurant, has launched a new, broader menu across all five of its properties in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
Nick Eleftheriadis, MD of moyo’s brand management company, Fournews Developments’, described moyo – meaning ‘soul’ in Swahili – as a restaurant that gave people an African-mood drink and food experience.
Chef Ane van Zyl, who was instrumental in creating the new menu, said the re-launched menu offered meals that drew inspiration from across the continent, taking people on a culinary journey, experiencing a taste of Africa.
Menus include Nigerian sweet potato and chickpea koftas, Moroccan spiced beef fillet, Zimbabwean chicken thigh dovi and Mozambican peri-peri prawns.
The menu still offers old moyo favourites and has a strong appeal to the broader South African taste, focusing on the important local market, says Eleftheriadis. Some of the traditional, re-worked, South African dishes include peri-peri chicken livers bunny chow, west coast mussels, ostrich neck potjiekos and Cape Malay bobotie.
Also new is the Life menu, which introduces café-style breakfast and lunch with an African spin for quick meals on the go. The menu tries to position moyo as an all-day dining venue to suit all ages. There is also a broadened menu for children that includes the traditional worsie, pap en sous (sausage with a traditional porridge/polenta made from ground maize served with a tomato-based sauce), linguine bolognaise and False Bay fish bites.
The moyo group includes: moyo Melrose Arch and Zoo Lake in Johannesburg, moyo uShaka in Durban and moyo Bloubergstrand and Kirstenbosch in Cape Town.
