A culinary gem has joined Jozi’s foodie neighbourhood on 4th Avenue in Parkhurst.
The first Melissa’s store in Gauteng — with its self-service deli, buffet table and table service — is airy, open-plan, with floor-to-ceiling windows, raw facebrick walls, wooden tables and custom-made Oregon pine shelving.
The shop’s opening last Wednesday was a who’s who of the Gauteng gastronomic scene. And by Saturday morning the place was packed.
Named after one of its owners, Melissa van Hoogstraten, it offers an à-la-carte breakfast, lunch and dinner, cakes and coffee and snacks.
“We are a small, intimate operation and the food and people are not pretentious,” said Melissa’s senior buyer, Deon van Wyk. “We know what makes great food.”
Melissa’s opened its first store in Cape Town’s Kloof’s Street in 1996 and now boasts eight stores in the Western Cape.
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