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FRADU CAFÉ SOUTH AFRICAN BBQ
Fradu South African BBQ was established in 2006 by 2 young dynamic South Africans Frank and Duduzile. The name Fradu was abbreviated from the name Frank & Duduzile who are co-founders of the business. The Ambrealla Fradu Group business spscializing in property development has grown from a small home kitchen catering company to owning restaurants in food court malls, cafes in student residences and building residential complex developments in South Africa and has now expanded to Calgary, Canada as a wing of GFNM Calgary which is a non-profit.
Our customers will always be our guests and will experience the ultimate hospitality of a South African home. We will make your celebrations, both corporate and personal, delicious. With 20 years of experience, we promise you the freshest, local ingredients, hand-crafted cooking sprinkled with our unique whimsical elegance and exceptional African service. Our passion is stirred by the colours, and textures found in the wonderful rainbow nation we call home.
At Fradu Cafe South African BBQ, we strive to offer mount-watering food that is both nutritional and affordable. Whether you`re picking up a boere-roll for lunch or placing a catering order for a corporate event, our quality always will always exceed your expectations
Fetured on Savour Calgary
In South Africa, barbecue, also known as braai, is a cultural and culinary institution. Frank Ngwenya brings the fiery flavours of braai to Calgary at Fradu Café. After a string of bad luck in property development, Frank started cooking out of his apartment in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 2007 and soon found himself opening a restaurant. Today, Fradu Café has several locations in South Africa and Frank says, “I have been very surprised by how Canadians have embraced our food.” But once you’ve tasted the meats at Fradu Café, it’s no surprise that carnivorous Calgarians are smitten.
Fradu Café’s chuck beef is locally sourced and aged before being grilled to tender, juicy perfection, and its massive beef ribs are falling-off-the-bone tender with liberal brushes of homemade barbecue sauce. The flavours are fantastic. Fradu’s most popular dish, the chakalaka boerie roll, is a South African take on a hot dog with from-scratch boerewors sausage, a buttered and toasted roll and heaps of chakalaka, a spicy bean-and-tomato relish. Fradu Café’s boerewors are a juicy, satisfying mix of pork and beef with notes of nutmeg and a delicate tanginess. All this meat goes well with peri-peri fries, which makes the tasty fries a touch spicy and very addictive.
Frank credits his team for helping him set up and run his stall and catering business in Calgary, and has big hopes for the future, including a store selling South African products. He says, “it gives me great happiness to see people enjoying our dishes” and notes kids eat free at the stall on weekends until the end of December, as he wants to “have families enjoy our food together.”
