We love staying in the Sea Point area in Cape Town. The two big roads for the area run parallel to each other. On the one side Beach Road takes you along the oceanside with palm trees aplenty and the sparkling azure sea alongside the well-walked Sea Point promenade. One road back is Main Road, home to […]
It’s always a joy to have good restaurants on your doorstep. And in Sea Point in Cape Town, the main road is buzzing with a range of places to eat. Five minutes walk away from where we’re staying is a newly completed shopping centre called The Point. Gleaming tiles and shiny windows welcome you and there are […]
As you can imagine, one of the questions I’m most frequently asked is: “What’s your favourite restaurant?”. My usual response: “That’s an impossible question to answer…it depends on your mood, the weather, what you ate the day before…a whole menu of reasons that prevent me from sticking my neck out and naming one particular eatery. Having […]
Summer in Sea Point simply isn’t complete with a visit (or several) to La Mouette. Genius chef Henry Vigar has been cooking up a storm of inspirational dishes here since 2010. We manage to tempt an array of friends from the Southern Suburbs (aka The Other Side of the Mountain) to the beautiful La Mouette courtyard […]
I’m going to transport you all briefly back to Cape Town to tell you about one of my favourite discoveries on my recent sojourn there. Reinforcing our belief that Sea Point’s Main Road has everything you could possibly want was our exciting find – tapas. La Boheme and La Bruixa are sister restaurants that kind […]
We had dinner at the Duchess of Wisbeach last year and loved it, so it was time for a return visit with our friends Trevor and Mandy. They live “on the other side of the mountain” but don’t need much prompting to head for a night out in Sea Point. It opened in 2009 and […]