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Getting my Mexican on in Mowbray at Fat Cactus – a review
On the busy Durban Road of Mowbray, somewhat secluded behind trellis work and bright lights, is the Mexican Mecca of the Fat Cactus. We arranged a dinner there, all at the last moment. Fortunately, Bon Jovi was playing live in Cape Town, so the restaurants wer...
A Coffee Lover’s Guide to Cape Town
An ardent lover of coffee, I will always seek out the side-walk cafes, the little nooks with real espresso machines and run in the opposite direction of burnt filter coffee. As a traveller, I fully understand your pain if you land up at a hotel with only lukew...
A Taste of Mexico from El Burro in Green Point
It was a friends birthday and the plan was to meet up at the mexican place, El Burro on Somerset Road in Green Point. I'd heard many good things about this place and so was excited to try it out. Walking in there was an instant buzz of activity and happy hum o...
Dinner at the V&A Waterfront Harbour House
It was my birthday and I wanted to go out for a special meal with my family after plenty of debate we had a restaurant decided only to discover that so many restaurants in Cape Town are closed on Monday. I almost threw in the towel and was going to opt for a t...
Café Paradiso – patio dining in Kloof street, Cape Town
Nothing like a Sunday morning brunch with views out over the city bowl, and Table Mountain as your backdrop. Somehow these Madame Zingara types manage to get it right every time, and Café Paradiso is no exception (the restaurant is one of several that fall und...
Anatoli – A little piece of Istanbul in De Waterkant
Anatoli has been around since the year dot – 1984, if I'm not mistaken. So I'm not uncovering a little gem here. But this popular culinary experience in de Waterkant still deserves a mention, simply for the experience. Food, like everything else these days, is...
Vista Café – A modern day relic like no other
Vista Café needs no introduction to anyone who works around Cape Town's foreshore. The café is not only inundated with the breakfast, lunch and coffee crowd but it has also been around for thirty or so years – not necessarily in the same building or under the ...
Red Sofa Café, Vredehoek – ‘I Know This Great Little Coffee Shop’
Red Sofa Café is low-key, seriously sophisticated and perched on the rise of one of Vredehoek's fashionable streets – on the corner of Derry and Exner.
Its WiFi access and plate o' bacon (yes, that's a plate of only bacon) seems to have done the trick as th...
Top 9 (½) Vegetarian Restaurants In Cape Town
Gone are the days when, if you deigned to ask for a vegetarian meal in a restaurant, they produced the ubiquitous creamed spinach, mashed butternut, baked potato and giant grilled mushroom - if you were lucky. If you were unlucky, you got the defrosted frozen ...
Moyo Brings Soul to Kirstenbosch
Silver Tree Restaurant out. Moyo in. What a change for Kirstenbosch.
I wasn't a fan of the former lower garden restaurant at Kirstenbosch. It suffered from the syndrome 'we have the monopoly thus do not have to deliver anything special' – unfortunate for Ki...
Millers Thumb Restaurant
Millers Thumb restaurant, conveniently situated in the City Bowl of Cape Town, has been delighting the senses of local and international palates since 1995. When the owners, Solly and Jane, revamped this old-style home, opting for vibrant green and orange, it ...
The Best Delis in Cape Town …
Yesterday we took a good look at some of the best bakeries in Cape Town and today we take a look at the best deli's in town ...
The Best Delis in Cape Town
Deli Delish
Whilst a scoot in and out will have you armed to the hilt with a series of dips, pâtés,...
The Best Bakeries in Cape Town…
Cape Town is without doubt the foodie capital of South Africa. No offence to the other provinces, but the Cape is bursting with alternatives to supermarkets - sidewalk café culture, farmstalls, farmers' markets, bakeries, and delis – that make shopping out, to...
O’ways Teacafe in Claremont
Tea houses haven’t exactly taken off in Cape Town. While we embrace coffee culture with almost religious zeal, we tend to sniff our noses at anywhere that offers anything other than Ceylon and Rooibos (or perhaps Green Tea or Chamomile for the real daredevils....
Lunch at Delvera – Mama Joan’s Farm Kitchen, a delight
I've heard of Delvera. They are connected with a full moon hike, and children's theatre, and I'd stumbled across them a couple of times in my trawlings of the web in the bid to find exciting things to do over weekends in the Cape Winelands.
What I didn't re...