My fellow diner and I are self-confessed foodies — call us gluttons even. As we joke about a Facebook Meme — the 'Fault in Our Diets' — we settle into cream-coloured tufted chairs, which lend an old-world, Brit ambiance to Oakroom at Juhu. The al-fresco seating outside, which is a week old, looks as fresh as a summer's day, complete with yellow walls, comfortable garden chairs and a glass roof.


The Goat Cheese Salad and Prawns in Raw Mango Curry at Oakroom, Juhu are a delicious affair. Pics/Shadab Khan 

To start with, we order the Warm Goat Cheese Salad (R750), from the new menu which launched last November, a temporary promise to turn over a new leaf — pun intended. I usually cringe at the word 'salad', but as I cut into the warm rocket leaves, crisp asparagus and broccoli, along with the crunchy walnuts, the blob of goat cheese is not the only ingredient we polish off on the plate.