Leaf Sushi Restaurant

Leaf is undergoing some changes for the winter

To make your favourite area available during winter times, we are adding a nice roof on top and enclosing the space with windows and a new door at the steps.  As soon as the building of the deck is complete our guests can enjoy the outside area no matter what time of the year.  If it is too windy, close the windows, raining will be no problem as the four umbrellas are moved to the front of the building for those who like too sit under the umbrellas.

A month or two later we will add a big rotating sushi bar so that you can enjoy a quick lunch. Want to order buffet but not order from the menu, then the rotating sushi bar will also be for you.

Need for sushi in Cape Town

Do you love sushi, but your partner or friends do not like the idea of raw fish.  We do not only serve sushi....for all those that love steaks, burgers and seafood, we are a Asian fusion restaurant that serves anything from raw food, to most of your cooked foods. If you want to treat you loved one to sushi, and you like steaks more, visit our website and look at our wide selection on the menu. You can enjoy all sorts of goodies. An example would be our extensive range of wines and beers, all new layered cocktails, milkshakes.

Now you can bring your loved one for some fresh sushi at our Restaurant in Cape Town without having to fear that you have to sit and watch, or have to eat food that you are not interested in.

Sashimi

Sashimi often is the first course in a formal Japanese meal, but it can also be the main course, presented with rice and soup in served separately. Many Japanese people believe that sashimi, traditionally considered the finest dish in Japanese cuisine, should be eaten before other strong flavours affect the sense of taste. Culinary, sashimi represents the Japanese cultural appreciation of subtlety. The finer sensation can vary from salmon to squid and everything in between. The sliced seafood that composes the main ingredient is typically draped over a garnish.. Wasabi paste is sometimes mixed directly into soy sauce as a dipping sauce. Purists denounce the practice of mixing wasabi into soy sauce, saying that this dilutes the sharp hot flavour of wasabi. Another more correct way to flavour soy sauce with wasabi is to place the wasabi mound into the soy sauce dish and then pour it in. This allows the wasabi to infuse the soy sauce more subtly. A reputed motivation for serving wasabi with sashimi (and pickled ginger), besides its flavour, is killing harmful bacteria that could be present in raw seafood.

Some sashimi ingredients, such as octopus, are sometimes served cooked given its chewy nature. Most seafood, such as salmon, tuna and squid are served raw. You can also have your sashimi lightly seared outside, leaving it raw inside.

Detailed Leaf description

Leaf Sushi Restaurant & Bar is located in Green Point, Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa is gaining a good reputation at a rapid rate. An up-market restaurant with sushi that everyone can afford.  Want to take your loved one to a restaurant that can make you magically crafted sushi from a master chef? Treat him/her to a lovely evening at Leaf Restaurant, where right in front of your eyes the artful craft will bewitch you  and as soon as you taste the food, you will know right there and then, that you chose the best Cape Town Sushi Restaurant that has been making a fuss around quite a few of the inhabitants. Come and enjoy the most mystical evening that you will ever experience.

Leaf restaurant has 3 seating sections of interest. The Outside area, is the area where young and have a glorious evening with cocktails that are rarely seen by any of the restaurants or bars in Cape Town.  It has a few tables with a roof to cover for rainy weather, so you can enjoy our glorious magical sushi or exotic Asian Cuisine with comfort.  The area has a nice view, making it the perfect environment for friends to get together.

The “downstairs” would be the inside area near the sushi bar. From here you can see how the master sushi chef’s work their magic on the exquisite plate that will soon be on your table.  The music is a bit more relaxed than the outside area, making it the perfect area for a grand dining experience.

The “Upstairs” area are more suited for people that want have a look on the pleasant views from Cape Town, from within the restaurant and have some delightfully delicious sushi. From here you are more secluded, and can have a relaxing evening with your loved one with other couples sharing the same mystical evening as you. 

Leaf Restaurant will give you the experience you have always wanted, and if you live in Cape Town, be you young or old, friend and couples, singles or families, you can enjoy the Magical Sushi at out Restaurant in Cape Town

The art of sushi making

Did you know that in order to become a qualified sushi chef takes about 7 years of training.  The reason for this is that you must be able to produce the sushi as a machine.  Your sushi must look the same every time. In the first year, the apprentice will mostly see how the master makes the sushi. having to help with only the easy rolls, like California Rolls. It takes them nearly a month if they are fast learners, up to 6 months if they are slow learners. After that the must learn to perfectly cut every piece of sushi.  After a year, they will start to make the more stylish sushi, temaki rolls, Salmon Roses, dragon rolls etc. For the next 5 and a half years they are seen as junior chef's and try to get their sushi to the standard where only a machine can get it the same every time.After their 6th year of training, they are sushi chef's, but only becomes a senior chef once they have been making sushi for at least 13 years. While the western civilization likes to learn quick, and skip most of these steps, your best sushi chef's are mostly likely the ones that went through the whole course.

About Sushi

According to all sushi is a Japanese dish, while the Japanese started to trade sushi, they were not the ones whom created the dish.  Long ago the Chinese fisherman had no fridges to store their food, there were not a lot of options for them to.  Because the boats were made out of wood, they had to come up with means to eat, but not make fire on their wooden vessels.  As such, when they went to land, the would make barrels of rice, treat it with vinegar so that the rice would stay soft for longer.  They would then embark on their fishing journeys, taking some of the fish in their hauls, cut them up, and mix the fish with the rice in order to fill their bellies.  This is how sushi started.  In later years the Japanese would take some more colorful seafood, letting the sushi look nice and transformed the Chinese meal into the beautiful artful food that is present all around the world

Leaf Restaurant Cape Town

Best Sushi this side of Cape Town. Leaf wishes all their fans a happy day. Come and enjoy an evening with cocktails, have a glass of wine, or just a cup of coffee while you are having a quick lunch. Be it Sushi, Asian dishes, seafood or grills, we are a Asian fusion restaurant that will strive to keep our guests happy

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