Firstly , this was an experience.Walking up that dirt road to this unsuspecting barn, added to the whole atmosphere.The service was excellent. They have a well-stocked bar, you can order glasses of wine individually instead of going for the whole wine tasting add on.The food was incredible. As far as tasting menus go , this was among the best Ive ever had and value for money.The celeriac course changed my life.I left this place with a lasting impression , I will definitely go back.

The best culinary experience I have every had. Every bite is perfect and paired absolutely perfectly with every wine presented. Cannot wait to go again. The staff are wonderful and the wine connoisseur is brilliant.

For the love of all ignore the random 1 star guy he isn’t even reviewing anything... this place is awesome ... been a couple times now as it’s close to home , and cannot compliment the food enough, always worth a visit and service is incredible, yes it’s not a lose your mind party venue I’ve never experienced “shushing” because every time I’ve been guests have been enjoying their partners as for the 1 star guy... please take me to your grandmas house if she can cook like this , and honestly if you say you can cook above this level... how much to see you try. Trust meFolks try this restaurant and come back repeatedly

We went at night and we have to come back during the day! Tucked inside, feels like a hideaway. Great place, food, ambience that was almost musically orchestrated. The wine pairing with the food was on point through every course. Please go!

My partner and I had the best time there. It was a really fantastic culinary experience. Fine dining at its best!👌

For me, the best way to describe a fine-dining experience is to compare it to visiting an art gallery and appreciating the work of those who are masters of their craft. Though the craft is food preparation and the location a restaurant, its still artistry!-We’ve been wanting to go @Fermier Restaurant for the past four years and finally managed to do so in celebration of our 11-year wedding anniversary.-Just like walking through an art gallery and being surprised with a beautiful or, more importantly!, interesting and challenging piece of art around every corner, Fermier delivered on every part of the experience. From approaching and entering the unpretentious venue, to being tended to with great care by the staff; there was not one aspect of the experience to fault.-With the open plan dining room and kitchen, the food theatre started and while watching the masters perform their craft, dish after dish arrived each delivering an experience of its own. Lobster and crevice … just bring us the pot of sauce, we’ll lick it clean. Sweat bread – Google this one! Asparagus with duck egg and truffle. So many more until, finally, berries, liquorice and dehydrated! chocolate mousse arrived to make sure our minds were properly blown.-I don’t think I will ever get tired of the feeling when a dish is placed in front of you and then going through the process of first seeing it, then tasting bits of it, then all the elements together and finally sipping a well paired wine and being left with varying emotions such intrigue, happiness, feeling perplexed, challenged, satisfied and, equally important, learning what it is that you do not like.-Finally, they did a stellar job of catering for my tree nut and avocado allergies. My dishes were just as complete and I didnt feel like my life was threatened nor that I was done in.

Best experience of my life. Enjoyed every moment. The staff are excellent and the food mind blowing. A definite must for all.

This is something everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime...

Fermier is up there among South African culinary powerhouses. Its evident they strive for highly skilled food art set in a rustic and unpretentious environment.Every aspect of the experience has been carefully designed to delight. From the reception in the parking lot to the presenting of each course, no part of the journey is haphazard.There is not much I can say about the food, except that it is a rollercoaster of flavours, textures, colours and aromas. Youre not going to love every single dish, but youll certainly have your breath taken by the impeccable style and art youll behold at each course.Fermier is a must visit if youre curious about food and appreciate food as an art form.

Intimate. Tasting menus and wine pairing. Always a great experience. Service is excellent, they dont miss a beat.

Wife and I celebrated her birthday here. Food and service was amazing. From the moment you enter you are treated like royalty. We had food and wine pairing - weve never heard of any of the cellars previously, and they were all darn good! Will definitely go again and again. Pricey, but worth every Rand.

The food was amazing and I would definitely recommend it. Each of the 9 courses were very different. The attention to detail and dedication to the food was clear. The rustic buildings atmosphere allowed you to feel relaxed and focus on on the food. Service was excellent and waiters were very attentive. They were very efficient and food was brought in a timely manner but didnt make you feel rushed with each course.

Wow! What an experience! The food is really next level, beautifully presented and expertly planned flavours.The poached oysters was out of this world!What we really liked is the atmosphere. At a lot of fine dining restaurants its a bit stiff and it feels like we need to wisper, but not at Fermier. Its homey and warm and we felt welcome!

Unparalleled food, amazing service, surprising generosity - absolutely my favorite restaurant ever. An evening at Fermier guarantees a memorable, delectable culinary experience.

I had made a reservation for my husbands birthday way ahead (11 days before his birthday). The reservation was confirmed by the restaurant. Despite the confirmation, I got a call from the restaurant on his birthday, five hours prior to our booked slot, to inform me that because of an over-booking of guests, they would not be able to cater for us. This is highly unprofessional, of poor form and just unacceptable. They could have informed me earlier and not on his birthday if they were aware of an over-booking of guests. Also, why must I be asked to reschedule a reservation that I made 11 days earlier for this apparent over-booking of guests

We had a lovely time. The whole evening was amazing from the top class food to the 5 star service. Well done!!

Best experience ever. By far the best restaurant in Pretoria. Fine dining at its best!! Recommended!! Will be back soon!

One of the best fine dining experiences we had, super friendly staff.

Such incredible attention to detail. Immaculate pairing of flavors, complemented by professional service.

This restaurant makes my heart so happy! We celebrated our anniversary here and it was magical. Every course was more delicious than the next...do yourself a favour and book a table at this intimate and forward thinking restaurant.

Amazing food, great vibe and amazing service! Would suggest this place to everyone! A must have experience! Cant wait to come back!

If you would like to have a fantastic fine dining experience void of pretense, this is the perfect place! Chef Adriaan has created the perfect hideaway right in the city. The team at Fermier is friendly and attentive, the food is a gastronomic journey and the atmosphere is relaxed and comfortable. Definitely a must visit in Pretoria.

What a gem! An unassuming restaurant from the outside, but booked here on a recommendation and I am glad I did.A wonderful dining experience. Uncommon foods I have never had before cooked to perfection and plated as works of art.The set 9 course menu is said to change with the seasons. Almost all of the fresh greens is grown locally in the greenhouse next door. Beverages and meats are all sourced within South Africa.A perfect venue and uniquely South African dining experience.

Lovely place whit very kind people and good food!

Outstanding experience at this understated sustainable farm location. Great fine dining experience from beginning to end!

Good, but not great. Fantastic vibe, but I was expecting more from the food and service (particularly the sommelier)

Great food and great service.

What a special gem of a restaurant this is! Each course was as special as the one before. Prepared with the utmost detail and so tasty!! And not to even mention how the wine pairing is a must, complementary to each course. Highly recommended.

Very attentive waiters and a taste experience that is well worth it. To top it off it is cozy and intimate 👌

Next level of food! Highly recommended

Best restaurant in the world that I have been too. Seriously.

Excellent experience...food delicious.

Fine dining in a relaxed atmosphere. Lots of play on textures and shapes. Highly recommended for a special occasion.

Absolutely amazing each dish, each flavor, the setting and the service! Thank you for taking us on a culinary Christmas in May!

Loved the experience! Right in the hard of Pretoria East

Just out of this world! Worth every single cent!

This place is amazing, was there for my Wife’s birthday. Bucket list moment it was.

Fine cuisdine ;) perfection with Ex Animo wines and partners

What an amazing food experience. Fine dining at its best.

Fantastic experience. Great food. Awesome service. Will definitely visit again!

Joined Adriaan and his team and David from Ex Animo for the best wine and dine pairing experience. Definitely recommended.

This is one of the best fine dining experiences youll ever have. Great setting, great staff, awesome food and perfect wine pairings. If you havent been here your life is incomplete!

Awesome experience. Definitely recommend everyone to go and enjoy it. Incredibly well priced as well

Excellent food and atmosphere!

An exquisite experience thanks for a memorable evening

Fine fine dining😊

Excellent, great tasting beautiful food! I loved the rustig atmosphere. The wine pairing is a must!

What a special place! Wow. Everything they stand for is where my love affair starts.

Best Restaurant in Pretoria!

The best fine dining restaurant in Pretoria area. Portions are great and food is superb!

Fantastic food. Beautifully presented.A musical crescendo on your tongue with each bite. Very good service by staff.Only negative was too much garlic at the end.

What a fantastic experience! A set menu will provide you with an amazing array of tastes, textures and smells. All beautifully prepared from the open kitchen, this is a must for anyone that wishes to experience fine dining at its finest.Secure parking with a guard is available. Not easily wheelchair accessible.

The only word I can use for the experience is Phenomenal! The food was out of this world, with real attention to detail, textures and flavours! Every meal was perfect and the knowledge of the waitresses was exceptional. The wine pairing was great and really complimented each dish. We were promised a food experience and that is exactly what we got. I would definitely recommend Fermier to people who have a passion for good food.

Great experience! The service and food was exceptional.

Fermier was an absolutely unbelievable experience. The food is prepared with such delicate care, and is of unbelievable quality. The entire team works so well together, and there was not a single moment where we felt that we werent being taken care of.

Great service all round, food was great and the over all experience was amazing

Surpassed and exceeded my expectations!Went there with my family and had a great dinner. Allergens were creatively accommodated. The dishes were very well created with exceptional matching flavours! The service was professional and courteous, so warm and welcoming. Like they enjoyed having you there.If this is where South African cuisine is headed, then I am really excited! I wish the whole fermier team the absolute best of luck with where they are going with this attempt of a restaurant and congratulate them with what they have achieved thus far!This is definitely the real thing, nothing pretentious about it!

Look, it’s quite expensive. But you have to try fine dining at this place once in your life. I went their with my girlfriend for valentines and we took the wine pairing option with the dining. Food is brilliantly good! Truly something out of this world. Enjoyed the seared tuna. Food is prepared right next to you.

Pretentious, overpriced, and serious delusions of adequacy. Take a vow of silence if you dont want to get reprimanded for excessive conversational decibels in a shack. Yes, a shack. Portion sizes would be excusable if the culinary experience was mind blowing, but the best I cold say about my favourite dish was that it reminded me of my grandmothers cooking. You can do better when it comes to food, service and ambiance. Its a great place to come break up with your significant other... they wont even be allowed to raise their voice. By the looks of it all, this establishment is nothing more than an ill-conceived ode to the chefs egos.

One of the best food experiences I ever had! Fantastic staff and a unique relaxed setting. Cant wait to be back

The location is so hidden, which makes this little restaurant a real gemn. The food and atmosphere was amazing, and we enjoyed every second there. This was a well worth experience.

Fabulous. Great service. Friendly and accommodating. Food was lovely and most enjoyable. I will certainly be back.

Superb experience.

Service is amaizing, food is spectacular.

We heard about Fermier from a friend who highly recommended the restaurant. We were definitely not disappointed. We had the nine course meal with wine pairing. Each dish was delightful and unusual. The plating was beautiful with amazing attention to detail. Offering this kind of menu requires a lot of hard work and dedication. In my view one of the best, if not the best restaurant in Pretoria. Most of the other restaurants seem distincly pedestrian in comparison.

Just lovely, food was exceptional, service amazing. They also act accommodated my fuss eating wife who called and asked for some substitutions. I cant wait to go back

Really interesting evening and dinner. The many courses that are well put together and are really fascinating. Finding the restaurant in the dark was a bit of a challenge as Google maps sends you to a back entrance with a locked gate.

The most amazing experience.Their sommeliers are the best I’ve experienced as well. The service is incredible and the food is life changing.

We had an intriguing start to or Valentines evening date. After parking our car on a dark dirt parking area, we were escorted via flashlight on a short dirt path, over some steps and into a quaint sink roof building with about 15 or 20 other couples. We could see about 5 chefs preparing food to the one side. We had a preset menu including quite a few courses of food with a wine pairing.The wine pairing was excellent.The food, which consisted of small plates of something beautiful, was between ok and excellent, depending on the course. The portion sizes were unfortunately very small (compared to other 9 course menus weve had), leaving you wanting more of especially the good plates of food.The waiters were fair, stumbling over words a little bit.Overall, we had a nice evening, but for the expensive price of this meal we wanted more..

Best fine dining experience I had so far. Extreme attention to detail in the food preparation and presentation and the staff were very accommodating and took into account my specific diet requirements. Highly recommended for the delicious 9 course meal.

Very nice French restaurant with set menu. They grow a lot of their own food. Compared to Brasserie de Paris, which we had been to a month before, this place is a LOT better! The food is, for the most part, really good. You get a welcome drink upon arrival. The atmosphere is really nice, and the staff are really friendly. This is a fairly expensive restaurant as far as restaurants go, but for its class, its actually quite well priced. I would recommend it.

Food was excellent, you can see everyone takes pride in what they are doing.

It was amazing.Great and Delicious food.The wine pairing was on point and their staff are professional.attention to detail.Will go back with my future wife again.

Best restaurant in Pretoria. The atmosphere, the service and the food were superb.

Fantastic experience and delicious food.

What a love evening we had... The service was perfect... The food was gorgeous and beyond delicious!

Amazing experience! All the courses were superbly prepared and presented and service was excellent! I can highly recommoend this hidden away treasure🎊

The food was amazing. The best duck Ive ever had. Some really clever cooking.... potions could be slightly bigger. I left and could have eaten more

Unique experience, intimate and amazing food. Well worth a visit

Before the Eat Out awards were released, I predicted that Fermier would break onto the top 10 scene. By then I had not been there but could already see that foodies were warming up to it. It didnt get the rankings (11/30 nominees) but is definitely worth a visit. The location is rustic, farmstyle...a welcoming waiter meets you at your car and walks you in.. most galant as he pulls out your chair ...this attentiveness made possible by the size of the place, possibly a 26 seater... happy to accept the complimentary MCC rose enhancing the romantic setting.It was a school night so it was a real toss up about wine pairing or ordering a bottle to accompany the imposing 9 course degustation menu...the helpful sommelier navigates you through this decision...The sourdough bread.with the silky butter and duck liver pate on a bed of nutty dukka is to die for, followed by pulled pork unexpectedly warm despite the deceptive rings of cucumber on the top...crab with pickled cabbage and a tasty broth, followed by an oyster, smacking of the sea, with apple celery but I wasnt sure if i liked the texture of the poached oyster ...while these dishes were yummy I did feel the lingering prominent taste of the duck liver and was glad for the crisp sauvignon blanc, serving as a palate cleanser, providing clarity to the different tastes.I happily bit into wagyu with black garlic on a fresh zesty bed of avocado...next was the amazingly tender lobster which was offset with tarragon oil and sea fennel flower...I found the liqourice taste a bit startling. My favorite was the kabeljou with bokchoy made more than one way, pickled sweet lemon and a lovely subtle lemony sauce...I dont normally like a firm fish but loved the crispiness the Chef got on the fish. My least favorite was the sweetbread with toasted hazelnut and a touch of sweetness which was surprising as I was looking forward to this the most...the dish was desperately in need of some freshness to cut through the heavy monotone richness...the alternative dish of cauliflower risotto was a tad too salty. I did enjoy the duck with the cannoloni and stuffed onion.The deserts were pedestrian but well presented...a sweet savory dish overpowered by the sharpness of the cheese...but I welcomed the chocalate ice cream, the freshness of the mint and the tartness of the raspberry that cut through the decadence of the cream.Overall, a job well done by the industrious and serious chefs who did not crack a smile, so intent on the job of bringing delicious food to the table...

Exquisite food and a modern setting. The fresh produce used in the recipes are locally farmed, some from their own hydroponic farm, and wonderfully presented. A treat for anyone who wants to fine dine in Pretoria.

This is the most amazing humble place, yet so elegant, refined and with a lot of class. The service is above average and the food is an out of this world experience. I took clients there. They are still talking about the evening

I took my husband out to Fermier for his birthday, this restaurant came highly recommended from a friend of mine. We really enjoyed our time here and we will be returning. We had wine paring with our meal, next time were skipping the wine paring and just ordering a bottle of wine we enjoy. There are 9 courses, sounds like a a lot but portions are small, be sure to eat the bread too. It was lovely evening at a top 20 restaurant in the country and one of the only two in Gauteng.

This is the ultimate fine dining experience in Pretoria.Great food, atmosphere, attentive well trained staff!

Amazing, as always! Creative and complex with perfect balance through all the courses.

Very interesting taste journey. Really enjoyed the food, and a lovely atmosphere and friendly staff

The ultimate way to spoil yourself and your loved one! The food, all 9 courses, we devine! I was worried after course 3 that we would have to find food afterwards, but be warned that by course 9 you would have had plenty to eat. The wines were brilliantly paired with each course. Also, kudos to the chef for dealing so brilliantly with the allergies of my partner. The alternative dishes that they served him were as superb as mine. The staff were amazing! Check you GPS before the time. Finding the precise spot to drive to when you are unfamiliar with where you are going can be a bit of a challenge. And on the side - I appreciate the gender neutral toilets. 5 stars all around.

Great food and fantastic service!

Great dining experience with friendly competent staff. Only negative is that the venue can become VERY hot taking away from the experience somewhat.

WOW what an Awesome place. Fine dining at its best. Loved the food and the wine paring is amazing. Every dish is better than the last.

One of Pretorias hidden gems. The place is everything and the food is an experience 😋.

One of the most amazing places I have ever been to.

Exceptional food and wine tasting for the tastebuds, to be remembered!

Best food i had in a long time. This place is special. Well done to all of the staff working on this dream.

Its a place to experience fine dining in cozy atmosphere. You get spoilt for sure

Spectacular food and really amazing service.

Epic food n best chef I have ever met

Excellent nine-course food and wine pairing presented in a unique setting... Lorraine, the somelier, deserves a special mention for her professionalism and knowledge!

Fermier truly showcases the best of the South African culinary artisans. With predominantly self grown greens and locally sources menu, this is a stellar place to take international guests and celebrate special occasions for the South African market.

I have never tasted anything like it and the service was 5 star