The name was changed from Soulsa to Lucky Bean after we lost a legal battle with a national food brand over the use of the word “Soul”.
Our new name was derived from the beautiful tree mural in Soulsa. Photographs of this tree have been seen around the world. Our restaurant has featured in, amongst others, KLM, Swissair and British Airways in-flight magazines as well as in Lonely Planet, on Unlike.net and in numerous other publications and TV programs, locally and internationally.
This tree, the Erythrina Lysistemon is also known as the Coral Tree and “die Kanniedood nie (cannot die)”. It is called the Mophete in Tswana and the Umsinsi in Zulu.
Also commonly known as the Lucky Bean tree it is used for traditional medicines (muti) and the seeds are used as lucky charms and as beads and necklaces. The trees were planted on the graves of Chiefs.