{"id":393507,"date":"2026-07-31T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393507\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:46:12","slug":"umzi-vine-vibe-bringing-world-flavors-to-keller-keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393507\/","title":{"rendered":"Umzi VIne & Vibe bringing world flavors to Keller | Keller – Roanoke – Northeast Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johann Redelinghuys is starting a restaurant in Keller called Umzi Vine & Vibe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in South Africa, the food has always been around the table,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd my dream wasn’t simply just to open another restaurant. My dream is more to build a place where people feel at home … where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the word Umzi, from the Xhosa language spoken in southern Africa, means “homestead.” Redelinghuys said he\u2019s lived in Keller the past 12 years and this location felt like the perfect place since it used to be a residential home.<\/p>\n

The space was previously the home of Manny G\u2019s Restaurant and Bar. According to a real estate website<\/a>, the building dates back to 1945.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just hope Umzi becomes a place where people celebrate birthdays and anniversaries and things like that,\u201d Redelinghuys said.<\/p>\n

On the menu<\/p>\n

Redelinghuys said Umzi will be a mix of flavors from South African, American, Asian, and European cuisines, with chef Mensah Thompson helping with the menu<\/a>. He has experience<\/a> at a German bistro, barbecue restaurants, a steakhouse and a winery.<\/p>\n

Some of the menu items will be:<\/p>\n

Cheesy escargot in garlic butterCharcuterie boardMadiba dumplingsSoup and saladsBeer-battered fish with gluten-free chipsBraised lamb shankAhi tuna tacoBeef Biltong flatbreadTraditional steak pieThai coconut milk curryGluten-free chicken schnitzel<\/p>\n

Quote of note<\/p>\n

\u201cI know both I and Mensah, we love wine and we love food and not just food from South Africa,\u201d Redelinghuys said. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a fusion with a world of flavors. Just with my heritage, from South Africa and then Mensah, my chef, his father is from Ghana. We\u2019re going to create something definitely that people are going to be a destination, where people come for something and you\u2019ll come back because the food is so great and the homey feel is so great.\u201d<\/p>\n

What else?<\/p>\n

The building is undergoing an estimated $400,000 in renovations, according to a filing<\/a> with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The work includes interior and exterior remodeling of the kitchen, dining area, restroom, wine cellar, accessibility upgrades and related utility modifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johann Redelinghuys is starting a restaurant in Keller called Umzi Vine & Vibe. \u201cGrowing up in South Africa,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,138455,1234,138456,11880,138454],"class_list":["post-393507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-johann-redelinghuys","tag-keller","tag-mensah-thompson","tag-south-africa","tag-uzmi-vine-amp-vibe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}