The day Woodstock officially became Cape Town’s hottest district can be dated to Nov. 24, 2010 — when Luke Dale-Roberts opened the Test Kitchen there.
Dale-Roberts is the chef who took South Africa’s most venerable restaurant, La Colombe in Constantia, and, by adding Asian spice to its French cuisine, propelled it to the 12th spot on the 2010 S. Pellegrino list of the world’s 50 best restaurants. By taking his latest venture to Woodstock, just east of downtown, he set seal to a process of local trendification that has seen the area of Victorian cottages and old factories become home to artists’ ateliers and designers’ studios.
