Centre Court restaurant and coffee shop — A review

Centre Court

Located in the heart of the Pavilion Shopping Centre in Westville, Durban, The Centre Court Restaurant and Coffee shop has been around for some time and even though I’ve eaten there a few times in the past, a recent visit was as enjoy­able as always. The vari­ety of cuisine avail­able at Centre Court is truly amaz­ing. The res­taur­ant offers diners quite pos­sibly the most extens­ive array of foods I’ve ever seen on a menu. Burgers, a vari­ety of chicken dishes, cur­ries, toasted sand­wiches, steaks, lamb chops, lasagnes and pas­tas, pork spare ribs, prawns, schnitzels, stir fry’s, tramezzini’s and a selec­tion of wraps are all available.

With such a vari­ety of dishes on offer, it took a while for my com­pan­ions and I to decide what to have, but I even­tu­ally chose the Saucy Steak Roll (R56.95) with my friends, Mary-Anne and Peta-Anne, opt­ing for the Chicken Cordon Bleu (R77.95) and Barbeque Steak Tramezzini (R59.95) respect­ively. My steak roll came with a choice of wedges or French fries and although the help­ings were gen­er­ous I decided that a side order of onion rings (at R12.95), would be per­fect to help sat­isfy my huge appetite.

My decision proved to be the right one with my meal cer­tainly leav­ing me sat­is­fied although I’d have to say the steak roll was a bit too dry for my lik­ing. Mary-Anne thor­oughly enjoyed her Chicken Cordon Bleu with Peta-Anne equally impressed with her Barbeque Steak Tramezzini although she did feel her dish could have been a bit more on the spicy side.

The Cordon Bleu, which con­sisted of a chicken breast filled with moz­zarella cheese and mush­rooms, was served with a cheese and mush­room sauce and a selec­tion of veget­ables, while the Tramezzini was accom­pan­ied by a serving of coleslaw and potato chips rather than the usual French fries – some­thing I thought was a nice touch.

Full stom­achs meant there wasn’t any room for dessert, which, with delect­able offer­ings such as malva pud­ding, cin­na­mon apple crepes, and chocol­ate mousse avail­able to name but a few, was rather a pity. While set­tling the bill I enquired about the restaurant’s advert­ised ‘meal miles’ programme.

I was informed that ‘meal miles’ works on a reward sys­tem to bene­fit reg­u­lar cus­tom­ers and is the first pro­gramme of its kind in South Africa. While res­ist­ing the tempta­tion to go into detail I can say that enter­ing the pro­gramme seems well worth the effort as the dis­counts involved appear to be quite substantial.

The few minor gripes aside, we thor­oughly enjoyed our lunch­time excur­sion to Centre Court. Our greet­ing was pleas­ant, the ser­vice prompt and effi­cient, the menu extens­ive and we were all par­tic­u­larly impressed with our friendly waiter Justice whose product know­ledge was excellent.

A visit to Centre Court Pavilion is a must for any­one want­ing to enjoy a tasty and well-presented meal in a relaxed atmo­sphere with an upmar­ket ambi­ance, while exper­i­en­cing good old-fashioned ser­vice and value for money din­ing at the same time. It is prob­ably one of the best res­taur­ants around in terms of menu choice and one that I will most def­in­itely be vis­it­ing again.

Contact details:
Telephone: +27 (0)31 265 0837/8
Physical address: Shop 301, Pavilion, Westville, Durban

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