Why your restaurant should be listed on WiningAndDining

WiningAndDining is an easy to use, comprehensive and feature rich restaurant directory for South Africa. Our user-friendly interface allows patrons to quickly browse and make reservation enquiries at restaurants.

We market WiningAndDining extensively on the internet, to both local and foreign clients. In addition, WiningAndDining has an extensive user base of past visitors, which is growing monthly. We believe WiningAndDining provides an invaluable service to both our patrons and our restaurant members.

WiningAndDining was born out of a need to provide dining options for the clients of www.roomsforafrica.com - who are booking accommodation and require places to eat out at for lunch and dinner. RoomsForAfrica is one of the top accommodation directories in South Africa, servicing over 5000 establishments and has generated well over half a million accommodation enquires for its members. The owners of WiningAndDining and RoomsForAfrica have extensive online experience and have been developing, operating and marketing websites for years.

We believe we are charging a fair and affordable price for this service, and our members are receiving excellent value for money. If you consider the cost of membership, you only need to receive one or two new table reservations a month as a result of being listed on WiningAndDining, for your cost to be recouped. We are confident of this and send out monthly statistics of the traffic your restaurants page is receiving so that you may judge for yourself.

Finally, we have no lengthy lock in for members - if you find we are not producing sufficient exposure and reservations you are free to cancel you membership.

Full Membership
Below is a comprehensive list of the features and benefits available to full members of WiningAndDining:

  • A detailed listing of your restaurant including description, pictures, menu, wine list and map.
  • The ability to add specials and discounts to your listing.
  • A password protected management area where you are able to immediately update your restaurant's details.
  • The ability to contact the WiningAndDining team for assistance. We will gladly update your listing for you, including pictures, menus, wine list and map. Feel free to phone this through or send the information via email, fax or post.
  • Prominent display of your restaurant's contact details in order for patrons to contact you directly.
  • For ease of use and to help increase reservations, we allow patrons to fill in an online email form on the WiningAndDining website, and forward these emails directly to you. We have found these emails highly effective and are often sent by patrons requesting large group bookings for private or corporate functions.
  • We also allow patrons to SMS booking requests to your reservation managers' cell phone from the WiningAndDining website. This is an optional free service with the ability for you to choose the times of day to receive these requests. We do not disclose your cell phone number to patrons.
  • A monthly email showing statistics of visitors to your restaurants page on WiningAndDining. This email includes the number of visitors to your page, the number of people who have requested your contact details, as well as the number of emails and sms that you have received. This is also available from your management area on WiningAndDining.
  • The inclusion of your restaurant in the WiningAndDining monthly newsletter and specials newsletter that are sent out to registered users.
  • Full Members appear higher in the ordering on our locations and cuisines pages and will appear above our Limited Member listings.
  • Full Members will appear as an alternative option on the restaurant page of all our Limited Member listings. The restaurant displayed as an alternative option will be selected from the Full Members in the town or suburb, with priority going to those Full Members who offer similar cuisine choices to the Limited Member.

Limited Membership
This option is no longer available for new sign-ups. We are encouraging all Limited Members to become Full Members.

Limited Members enjoy all the benefits associated with Full Membership, with the following notable exceptions:

  • You will appear below all Full Members on location and cuisine pages.
  • A Full Member restaurant will appear as an alternative option on your restaurant page.
  • Your restaurant will not appear as an alternative option on Limited Members restaurant pages.
  • Your restaurant will be excluded from our monthly newsletter to patrons.
  • You will not receive assistance from the WiningAndDining team with adding to or updating your menu and wine list.
In addition to the above, we at WiningAndDining will focus our attention on promoting and improving the exposure received by Full Members over Limited Members wherever possible.