African restaurant · Centurion, Gauteng
Meat over open coals, and a table built for sharing.
Shisa nyama is a South African way of eating: meat grilled over live fire, plated with pap and sides, and worked through slowly with the people you came with. Blue Valley Shisa Nyama brings that to Bothrill Avenue in Centurion.
Where to find us
65 Bothrill Ave,
Centurion, Gauteng
Call ahead for trading hours, availability and anything you would like to arrange in advance.
What shisa nyama means
Burn the meat. Then sit down and stay a while.
The name comes from isiZulu — shisa, to burn, and nyama, meat. It describes a place as much as a dish: a grill going over coals, meat cooked to order, and food that arrives to be divided up rather than portioned out one plate at a time.
It is a format that suits how South Africans actually eat out. Nobody is rushed, the table does the ordering together, and the fire does the work that a kitchen otherwise would. That is the tradition Blue Valley Shisa Nyama cooks in, here in Centurion.
Off the fire
Grilled meat, and everything that belongs next to it.
A shisa nyama plate is rarely just meat. Around the grill sit the things that make it a meal — starch to soak up the juices, something sharp and pickled, something green, and a sauce that ties it together.
We have not listed this venue's own menu, prices or trading hours on this sample site. Those details belong to the owner, so the honest answer is to phone and ask what is on the coals.
Bothrill Avenue, Centurion.
Bring the people you want to eat slowly with. Phone ahead if you are a bigger group, or if you want to check what the fire is running that day.