Liquorice and Lime in Kloof Street — a review

Liquorice and Lime

Something I haven’t done for quite a long time is have brunch with my girl friends and yes­ter­day we decided it was about time to get together for a good old skin­ner and a deli­cious food. The venue was Liquorice and Lime on the top end of Kloof Street in Cape Town.

It is quite easy to miss so keep your eyes open and you’ll see it on your right hand side as you head towards the moun­tain. This is an abso­lutely fab­ulous find and I abso­lutely loved the retro wall paper and mag­ni­fi­cent view of Table Mountain. We arrived at 11h00 and were lucky to grab the last table as the res­taur­ant was already buzz­ing with young fam­il­ies, people work­ing on laptops or read­ing the paper.

The staff were relaxed and friendly and after the first round of Chai Latte’s, cof­fee and Horlicks were placed we settled down to catch up on the week and week­ends events. I ordered Horlicks, some­thing I haven’t had in abso­lute ages, and was abso­lutely more­ish, milky, hot and deli­cious. The other bever­ages were also enjoyed and I was told the Chai Latte was really good.

The menu looked abso­lutely appet­ising and although it is not very big there is suf­fi­cient choice to sat­isfy every pal­ate. I was in the mood for some­thing cheesy so I decided to order from the lighter meals menu and chose a bacon, feta, avo and moz­zarella tramezeni. Although I was almost swayed by some of the dec­ad­ent sound­ing break­fast choices.

How great does the Order Envy break­fast sound – just the name makes my mouth water. French toasted, fried banana, syrup and pep­per­dews make up this break­fast. Both of my friends who ordered this cleaned their plates in a mat­ter of minutes. Another heav­enly choice would be the Indulgence break­fast with flap­jacks, mas­car­pone, straw­ber­ries and syrup. There are also con­ven­tional break­fast options with muesli and yoghurt, eggs Benedict and omelettes.

When our food arrived we all had to sit and absorb the mag­ni­fi­cence of it, this really was “sexy food”. This wasn’t just a slap­dash approach to food, you could see the care and thought that went into put­ting together these dishes. My tramezini was enorm­ous and was served with a large side salad with packed with feta and olives. The bacon, mush­room and Swiss cheese omelette was served with hash browns. All of the por­tions were very gen­er­ous, how­ever every­one found space to eat every last bite.

We sat and chat­ted for hours and the res­taur­ant was very happy to let us sit and enjoy one another’s com­pany while order­ing our ump­teenth cof­fee. While there I also eyed what some of the other pat­rons had ordered and since we had stayed long enough for the lunch crowd to arrive we saw soup and crumbed cala­mari arrive at another table which looked and smelt sub­lime. Another table needed a take away for the huge crois­sant filled with cheese.

At the back of the res­taur­ant is a deli with a num­ber of products and deli­cious good­ies for pur­chase, it was dif­fi­cult not leav­ing with a packet load of things. I would def­in­itely sug­gest giv­ing Liquorice and Lime a few hours of your time when you are next in Kloof Street or feel like some very good food.

Contact Details:
They are open Monday to Friday from 07h00 to 17h00 and on week­ends from 07h00 to 16h00.
Location: 162 Kloof Street, Gardens
Telephone: +27 (0)021 423 6921

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