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Les Creatifs Restaurant

Reviewers' Choice 2023 - Top 100
Contemporary French
Location Pointer Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, Corner Of Hobart Road &, Grosvenor Rd, Bryanston, Sandton, 2191, South Africa
4.7
(492 reviews)
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  • Romantic
  • Gourmet Guide Plated
  • Reviewers' Choice 2023 - Top 100

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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.

Opening Hours

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

Reviews (492)

4.7 out of 5.0
Based on the past 12 months
Food 4.8
Value 4.6
Service 4.8
Ambience 4.7
  • Lerato M. Dined: 1 week ago
    4.8
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 4.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Fri 27 Mar 26
    An amazing experience. I accidentally had coconut, then purposefully ate it again. Took an allergex when I got home. It’s was so worth it!! Each dish is so carefully crafted. There was a tuna tartare with jelly and I got nervous but was the best tartare I had ever tasted. Still left a lasting impression of all the courses. Each dish with its addition of flavours just complemented the main dish so so well. The food felt like an art form in my mouth, instant contrasts of sweet, sour, savoury was instantly being stimulated all in one course, then you do it again 3 - 4x over (depending on how many courses). Would definitely do it again. Love that they keep changing the menu.

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Fri 27 Mar 26:
    Thank you so much for the review Lerato. We appreciate your feedback.

  • Kelly A. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sun 22 Mar 26
    Another fantastic meal at Les Creatifs

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

    Reviewed on: Sat 21 Mar 26 (Guest left no comment)

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Sat 21 Mar 26:
    Thank you for the review. We appreciate the feedback.

  • Mphoyanga T. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Thu 19 Mar 26
    Amazing food

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Thu 19 Mar 26:
    Thank you for the review. We appreciate the feedback.

  • Dumisani B. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    4.3
    Food 5.0
    Value 3.0
    Service N/A
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Wed 18 Mar 26 (Guest left no comment)

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Wed 18 Mar 26:
    Thank you for the review. We appreciate the feedback.

  • Neo L. Dined: 2 weeks ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Sun 15 Mar 26 (Guest left no comment)

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Sun 15 Mar 26:
    Thank you for the review. We appreciate the feedback.

  • Mpho M. Dined: 3 weeks ago
    4.8
    Food 5.0
    Value 4.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Fri 13 Mar 26
    The food was amazing. Prince gave very great service too. Well done to the whole team.

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Fri 13 Mar 26:
    Thank you so much for the review Mpho. We appreciate the feedback.

  • Shandu M. Dined: 4 weeks ago
    5
    Food 5.0
    Value 5.0
    Service 5.0
    Ambience 5.0

    Reviewed on: Tue 10 Mar 26
    Prince was such a wonderful host. I was not feeling well on the day and he made sure to take care of me. The food was absolutely amazing

    Les Creatifs Restaurant responded on Tue 10 Mar 26:
    Thank you for review Shandu. We appreciate the feedback.

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