Cnr Cafe Bistro and Deli

We founded the cnr. café in 2003. Since then, we have grown from a restaurant seating 40 people to one that seats 240 with a staff compliment of 50. In the early days we offered breakfast and lunch only, but are now a place where you can graze all night and day and are open 7 days a week for breakfast lunch and supper (except on Sundays when we are open for breakfast and lunch only).

Our story begins with chef and owner Greig Walker, whose elder brother would only hang out with him on condition that he cook for him and his friends. Fair deal, since even at that early stage Greig had begun to nurture an idea to run his own restaurant one day. A solid plan to achieve this would have been to enrol himself at a culinary school, except he misread the admission forms and ended up Wits Technikon Hotel School instead.

In the end it wasn’t such a bad idea, the business acumen he acquired is invaluable, but he wasn’t a particularly good student. He probably skipped as many classes as he attended to take on more shifts as a waiter, first-hand experience being more his style.