Lunching at Parks Café in Wynberg

Parks Café in Wynberg

We don't get out much. No ser­i­ously, doing lunch is tan­tamount to a social occa­sion we man­age it so sel­dom. When one works from home, lunch hour is some­thing you snatch on the run whilst pick­ing up the wee one and sprint­ing into the local bakery  double time for fresh bread!

But yes­ter­day we man­aged to have what def­in­itely qual­i­fies as a civ­il­ised lunch time inter­lude at Parks Café, Wynberg. The address is a little mis­lead­ing, as Parks Café actu­ally rests on Constantia Main Road, more-or-less across the road from Norman Henshilwood High School, in a simply beau­ti­ful restored Victorian villa (you prob­ably drive past here on numer­ous occa­sions, but next time, swing inside – you'll not be dis­ap­poin­ted) ... Continued

La Boheme Restaurant in Sea Point

La Boheme

A friend resides in Sea Point and has been rav­ing about a res­taur­ant that has opened up on Main Road so we gave it a try on Tuesday even­ing.  I’m so glad we did!  At R85 for a 2 course meal we were off to a good start, and the deli­cious food cemen­ted La Boheme on one of my new favour­ite eat­er­ies ... Continued

Café Caprice

Whether it’s for sun­down­ers in the sum­mer months or for the great winter bur­ger spe­cial, Café Caprice never fails to dis­ap­point.  Situated on the world fam­ous Camps Bay Strip, Caprice has been around since 2001 and still enjoys a faith­ful fol­low­ing from loc­als and inter­na­tional vis­it­ors alike.

The views of the Atlantic Ocean, the white sand, palm trees and Lions Head to the left (if you are facing the sea, and lets face it, who wouldn’t be!) Caprice could not ask for a bet­ter loc­a­tion.  Open for break­fast, lunch, din­ner and of course drinks, the menu is var­ied and great value for money.  Continued

Dinner & Dance in Cape Town

Pigalle Cape Town

What do you get when you put together a group of old friends, an approach­ing birth­day, deli­cious food and copi­ous amounts of wine? The answer — a reunion and smash­ing birth­day bash.

I have a group of very spe­cial friends who are spread far and wide across con­tin­ents and sea and this week we were lucky enough to arrange for every­one to be in the same place at the same time for a cel­eb­ra­tion. We had friends travel from Eshowe in KwaZulu Natal, Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape as well as the birth­day boy from Hamburg, Germany, his sis­ter from the UK and a pair love birds from the shores of Spain. And of course -  all of the fab­ulous people who reside in Cape Town. This even­ing was an oppor­tun­ity to get kit­ted out in our finest attire and head down to Somerset Road in Green Point for some fine din­ing and bit of dan­cing ... Continued

The Italian Kitchen in Tokai

The Italian Kitchen in Tokai, sis­ter res­taur­ant to Jonkershuis and Societi bis­tro at its  new home on Orange Street in Gardens, was fairly hum­ming when we arrived on a Saturday night to cel­eb­rate a birthday.

Its nonas­sum­ing kerb­side façade gives no real indic­a­tion of the buzz that ensues just inside the door, even though there is an out­side table or two, this being spring and hardly the time to sit out of doors, yet. But I can see that in sum­mer, the out­side tables could be much sought after, depend­ing on how much you like watch­ing traffic drive by ... Continued

Popular Cape Town Family-friendly Restaurants

Shoreline Café

Cape Town offers some beau­ti­ful loc­a­tions to spend time with your fam­ily in a relax­ing and play­ful atmo­sphere. On a con­stant quest to find per­fect fam­ily spots offer­ing healthy child-friendly food with an appet­iz­ing menu for adults, set in pleas­ant sur­rounds with play areas, here are some of the best exper­i­ences on offer ...

Shoreline Café at the V&A Waterfront was cre­ated for pure enjoy­ment and is situ­ated next to the Two Oceans Aquarium. An indoor play area makes this spot a great escape for rainy days! The kiddie’s area is lined with AstroTurf and has a big TV to enter­tain the older chldren, while the younger mem­bers of the fam­ily will be kept very busy on the cre­at­ively designed jungle gym and slides ... Continued

Posticino in Sea Point

Its offi­cial; I LOVE Posticino!  It was the first res­taur­ant I had din­ner at when I moved to Cape Town nearly three years ago and although I am not a reg­u­lar vis­itor (I live in the Southern Suburbs and Posticino is across town on the Atlantic Seaboard), whenever I find myself on that side of the moun­tain Posticino is the des­ig­nated din­ner spot ... Continued

kwaLapa – telling the stories of food

kwaLapa in Newlands

It's my week for vis­it­ing food stores. And kwaLapa in Newlands Montebello Design Centre, just recently opened, is about to take the south­ern sub­urbs organic-and-green-for-lunch crowd by storm.

It's not just their catchy byline — telling the stor­ies of food, where the store weaves the stor­ies of its sup­pli­ers into the very fab­ric of the walls — but it is also the menu, filled with organic, whole­some options that include but­ter­milk flap­jacks, raw muesli, organic soup of the day, delect­ably filled wraps, a freshly tossed salad of the day served with a cran­berry or blue­berry dip, and vari­ous organic cof­fee and tea options that make one fairly burst to sit and sip, whilst wav­ing one's hands in the air for them to 'bring it on'! ... Continued

Greek in Mowbray

The inter­est­ing, slightly shabby, but full of atmo­sphere little Greek eat­ery on Durban Road in Mowbray (Cape Town) not only gives you great value for money, but the food is also excel­lent. Set amidst a col­lec­tion of sim­il­arly enjoy­able res­taur­ants (Fat Cactus is just across the road), just bey­ond St George's Grammar School, it's a great place for a relax­ing, fla­vour­ful nosh.

The res­taur­ant is known simply as 'Greek', and deli­cious, simple, anything-but-fast Greek fare is what you can look for­ward to. And, des­pite its repu­ta­tion as a stu­dent hangout, the din­ners I've eaten there thus far have had fewer stu­dents than fam­il­ies with young chil­dren, and the usual slightly bour­geois and arty crowd you would expect to find in Mowbray ... Continued