Cape Town Foods and Dining
Cape-Malay Cooking
Cape Town’ culinary specialty is Cape-Malay cooking – spicy and fruity, but seldom hot. Fruit and chutney-enhanced boboties (mince-based casseroles), skewered-meat sosaties (kebabs), frikkadel patties and tomato-based bredie with blatjang (meat stew with chutney) – you will find all these delicacies at the Cape Sun Hotel’s Riempies, in Strand Street; at the Kaapse Tafel in Queen Victoria Street in the Gardens, and at Biesmiellah in the Bo-Kaap. Biesmiellah is an authentic Islamic institution where no alcohol is allowed.
Seafood
As far as seafood is concerned, restaurants can offer fresh catches of crayfish (rick lobster) and perlemoen (abalone), black mussels and oysters, prawns and linefish. Blues on the Promenade at Camps Bay is a particularly good bet, the restaurant also overlooks a pristinely beautiful beach.
African Cooking
Best for authentic African cooking are The Africa Café in suburban Observatory and the stylishly ethnic Mamma Africa Restaurant and Bar in downtown Long Street.