Listen to the interview in the audio below. As we head towards our Heritage Day (aka Braai Day) break, it is the perfect time to take your braais to the next level. Riffel’s cookbook, ‘Braai’, is ...

To hear anyone else tell it, Reuben Riffel defied stupendous odds in apartheid South Africa to become, at 35, one of Africa’s top chefs. To hear him tell it, well, it was a slog, but nothing that ...

With top-rated restaurants, TV shows and a cabinet of culinary honors, Reuben Riffel is without doubt one of South Africa’s most successful celebrity chefs. But that phrase “celebrity chef” doesn’t ...

The great bulk of the gleaming white ship, Swiss-owned but as Italian as carbonara, shifts its weight almost imperceptibly. On the quayside in Gqeberha harbourland, I gaze down from deck 13 to admire ...

In his early restaurant jobs, Reuben Riffel worked as a waiter, a barman, and a kitchen hand in his hometown of Franschhoek, South Africa. Eventually he became a sous-chef, helping to run the kitchen ...

Celebrity chef, restaurateur and media personality Reuben Riffel is best known for his food-focused TV shows and advertisements, cookbooks and philanthropic work. The 45-year-old began his culinary ...

There are many different ways I get to certain flavours. Sometimes I’m really passionate about the marinating. I can also get passionate about the cooking temperature, because that adds flavour or ...

Professional chefs, like Reuben Riffel who is on our cover, spend their entire lives guring out how to coax new flavours from familiar ingredients. Imagine cooking every single day, often in ...

In a valley famous for its haute cuisine, starched tablecloths and multi-course tasting menus, Franks Corner Bar & Grill is a welcome change in the Cape Winelands town of Franschhoek. Located in the ...

REUBEN RIFFEL grew up in a segregated neighborhood under the shadow of apartheid, and didn't eat in a restaurant until he was 15 years old. After working in construction, Mr. Riffel apprenticed at a ...