Elle Deco Feb 2011: This mobile eatery serves up honest, creative food in unusual spaces … serves on great-granny Rumble’s delicate wedding crockery”
Marie Claire Feb 2011: “get yourself to one of their pop-up dinners”
aficionado says: “the coolest dining experience I have had in the last year.”
“Warm, comforting, indulgent and wholesome communal eating prepared by people that simply love good food. The Mess is a guerilla (pop up) dining experience that has the cities tongue wagging (and salivating). I had the honour of attending one of Kate and Jono’s long tables, which included a meal of artichoke hearts, rabbit stew and broken figs, drizzled honey and camembert.”
chrisroper.co.za says: “good food with a twist of attitude”
“The food is an attraction, but even more enticing is the fact that you’re sitting on a street corner in a relatively deserted city, an oasis of good cheer and quirky service […]friendly Kathryn White, who joins you at the table to eat […], and chef-for-a-night Jonathan Cane. Eating there is an experience I’d heartily recommend, with one caveat – don’t go if you have a fear of lung cancer.”
jobusy says: “The food prepared in the pop-up kitchen was so delicious and original (a bit too original for me)”
“Watch this space… or rather, don’t. Next time Mess hosts a dinner for twenty or so fans it will be somewhere completely different.”
missmoss lyndall’s list says: things i like right now #10 (in no particular order)
“Cam put me onto their blog so I spy on their goings ons every now and then. The food they’re cooking, the fact that they’re educating people with new ingredients and methods, and just the way they pull it all off makes me want to rip my ‘green with envy’ eyeballs out.”
relentlessabundance says:
“I love what Kate and Jono are doing in Joburg with their Mess. It’s fun and thought-provoking and human, and looks goddamn delicious.”
superette says: “they’re making some pretty mega food and in such a great way. I especially like their new No Vegetarians and No Menu Plans rules, definitely something I’d like to apply to the Supper Clubs. It also seems like Jo’burgers are way more willing to go along with it than our Cape Town customers who arrive for a West Coast Lobster Supper Club with a shellfish allergy and vegetarian requests… For real realz. It also looks like they’re really good at having a really good time. So Capetonians stop trying to be so damn awesome, check The Mess out and aspire to be like an arsetastic Jo’burger for once in your life.”
Die Beeld: “The Mess is ’n Johannesburgse weergawe van so ’n “ondergrondse” restaurant … bied Kathryn White en Jonathan Cane ’n ete aan, elke keer by ’n ander plek in die stad (dit staan bekend as ’n “pop-up”- restaurant)”
the foodie says: “based on their blog they appear to be ridiculously talented in the kitchen, naturals behind the camera and also really really really good-looking. It made me hungry. It made me thirsty for red wine. It made me want artichokes. It made me wish I could pull off the retro bicycle with casual v-neck look.”
Men’s Health says: “we’re keen to sit down to dinner at The Mess, a pop-up restaurant that’s attracting attention all over Joburg.”