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This Heritage Weekend, Cape Grace, A Fairmont Managed Hotel, and its in-house restaurant Heirloom welcome Chef Shaun Scrooby and the VUUR team for a four-hands collaboration that brings two distinct expressions of South African cuisine to a single table.

Taking place over lunch and dinner on 25 and 26 September, the collaboration brings VUUR’s fire-driven, provenance-led cooking into the elegant world of Cape Grace.

A Natural Pairing for Heritage Weekend

VUUR has built its name on national storytelling through fire, provenance and a firm sense of place. At Heirloom, Cape Grace approaches that same territory from the direction of refined dining, working through ingredient, memory and technique.

Bringing the two together creates two distinct readings of the South African table, hosted within the world of Cape Grace. For this weekend only, it also gives more guests the opportunity to experience VUUR’s distinctive cooking without leaving the city.

VUUR was awarded Two Stars at the 2026 Eat Out Awards, placing it among the sixty-six finest restaurants in South Africa and in the Top 10 of the Cape’s wine farm restaurants. The restaurant also holds No. 52 on the World’s Top 101 Steakhouses list.

Heritage Weekend

Heritage Weekend gives the pairing its occasion — a time when the country turns to its own culture, and food is one of the ways that heritage is marked.

Across these few days, Cape Grace and Heirloom become a meeting place for regional produce, inherited methods and the traditions behind them, interpreted by two teams who approach South African cuisine from distinct perspectives.

The Table Itself

The menu is written once and served once.

Guests take their seats at Cape Grace for a five-course menu paired with wine, created specifically for this moment, this place and this collaboration. The experience brings VUUR into the city for the weekend, with dishes shaped by two sets of hands and two genuinely distinct points of view.
Once the final sitting is over, the menu will not be served again.

“South African cooking was never one story, and it was never meant to be. At Cape Grace, Heirloom gives us a space to bring different voices around the same table and to keep that conversation moving forward. Chef Shaun Scrooby and his team work with fire and with an instinct for place that I have long admired. Bringing that into Heirloom over Heritage Weekend feels like the right way to mark the occasion, in the company of people who care where this cuisine is headed.”

Wesli Jacobs, Executive Chef, Heirloom

“Fire has always been about place for us — it tells you what’s around you and what the land is giving that day. Heirloom works from a different angle, but we’re circling the same thing: food that says something true about where it comes from. Cooking alongside Wesli and his team for Heritage Weekend, in the city, for guests who might never make it out to the farm, feels like exactly the right way to share that.”

Shaun Scrooby, Chef and Owner, VUUR

Event Details:

Dates: Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2026
Sittings: Lunch at 12:30 and 13:30; Dinner at 18:30 and 19:30, each day
Format: Five-course menu with wine pairing, water, coffee and tea
Price: R2650.00 per person
Venue: Heirloom, Cape Grace, A Fairmont Managed Hotel, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

More information: www.capegrace.com/restaurant/heirloom-restaurant