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Chef Vusi Ndlovu will create a new concept with dishes that celebrate African shisanyama heritage at Time Out Market Cape Town

A concept created by Chef Vusi Ndlovu specifically for Time Out Market Cape Town, MLILO ‘Fires of Africa’ will offer a truly African-inspired cuisine with each menu item honouring a different African country, giving a nod to the continent’s rich culinary traditions while reflecting the chef’s incredible creativity and innovation. The idea behind this braai concept is to celebrate the different ways African food markets and vendors utilise fire, with a menu offering a tantalising glimpse of Africa on a plate and a contemporary take on the local favourite “shisanyama”, a Zulu word meaning “burn meat”. Menu items will include Iplate (South African braai plate with all the trimmings, specialities includes tomato sausage & black bean chakalaka); Lamb Didi (Lamb cooked using a fire cooking concept from Senegal); Nyama Choma (Thinly sliced beef with chunky kachumbari) and Puff-puff (Spiced pumpkin doughnuts with chilli sugar).

Vusi Ndlovu is a young, hugely dynamic chef who has been making waves on the foodie scene since winning the Africa and Middle East number one spot in the San Pellegrino Young Chef competition. With a reputation for challenging norms and pushing boundaries to produce unique, outstanding food, Vusi Ndlovu learned the basics of cooking as a chef trainee in Pretoria and in 2012 came to Cape Town joining Chef Peter Tempelhoff to learn from this culinary giant, later becoming part of South Africa’s national culinary team, working in some of the best restaurants in Johannesburg and Belgium before returning to South Africa. He is also one of the founding members of the African Culinary Library which is dedicated to preserving and promoting African food culture and cuisine.