Serves a full Asian tasting menu and a lighter à la carte menu, with house-made ingredients.
Food & drink · Franschhoek
Every conversation about the business this month, newest first, with its audio.
Oku is a restaurant serving local food and wine, with a menu sourced as close to home as possible. Its owner says the restaurant is a vehicle for developing its roughly 21 young staff into business owners.
“And really, we are like a development program.”
Oku is a small Asian restaurant in Franschhoek run by chef and founder Ryan Schell. It offers a full tasting menu and, newly, an à la carte cart for lighter lunches and walk-in diners.
“I think the thing we found was without having an a la carte menu, it was difficult to get people over the threshold.”
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