The best restaurants Cape Town

Under its thatched roof is a nice little bistro. The Four Oaks is run by a charming family who offer a cuisine inspired by seasonal and mostly local ingredients. The plates come out beautiful, colourful, original and delicious. On the terrace, the tables line up all along if you come in a group or to celebrate an event. A warm welcome so that you can spend a beautiful evening. Four Oaks is also a four-bedroom guesthouse, where you can enjoy the swimming pool in the enchanting garden.

Housed in a historic colonial house, L'Aubergine is a renowned restaurant in Cape Town. The chef offers gourmet cuisine made with spicy South African ingredients and oriental flavours. A real success! Accurate cooking, strong flavours, airy sauces: the know-how of a great house and a sommelier's wine list. The chef does not rest on his laurels and is constantly concocting new dishes, including a lamb dish alongside strudel! Wide choice of vegetarian dishes. And we haven't said anything about the swimming pool in the garden!

After the Test Kitchen, Salsify and Shortmarket Grill, Chef Luke Dale-Roberts opened The Pot Luck Club at the Old Biscuit Mill. A totally different concept, the idea is to share tapas around the table from 5 types of Asian fusion dishes. The "umami", which means "tasty" in Japanese, is one of the five basic flavours: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Dig into the menu and discover new flavours of ultra-sophisticated and transformed cuisine. A gastronomic table not to be missed.

All along Reuben's vast lengthwise hall, skylights are revealed through the high arched windows. This unpretentious but renowned restaurant serves light and delicious meals. From seafood tacos to fresh oysters, chicken curry or smoked ribs, all the classics are reinvented in the hands of the cooks at the Chamonix Wine Estate brasserie. If you don't know where to have lunch, try it, you won't be disappointed, that's for sure. Don't forget to make a reservation.

A very spectacular room in the evening, when powerful spotlights illuminate the rocks at our feet, on the other side of the bay window. A true communion with nature, especially the ocean. It is difficult to be closer to the water. So of course, the specialities here revolve around fish and seafood, and it's exquisite. The service is very pleasant. You can also have a drink on the terrace benches and order a nice sushi platter to nibble on. What a view! Don't forget to make a reservation.

The restaurant of Carolize Coetzee, one of the country's most promising chefs, located in the prestigious Tokara, an estate with a contemporary, almost futuristic design! Her menu changes with the seasons, with daily specials each more creative than the last. For starters, try the roasted Jerusalem artichoke with red bell pepper and sun-dried tomato sauce. For the main course, the appetizing smoked duck breast with spinach, pomegranate and marsala jus has already satisfied many a Tokara connoisseur's palate.

Housed in very chic Taj palace, Bombay Brasserie is an excellent Indian restaurant. Refined cuisine and flavoured including inevitable Chicken Tikka Massala, but especially imaginative combinations mixing Indian spices and ingredients, as well as local. The main dishes and menus are listed in “vegetarian” and “vegetarian” leaving to a range of dishes without meat or fish. Corn soup is a delight. The lights are dimmed, the intimate atmosphere, a little ceremonious services, salted prices, but the very fine cuisine.

The best restaurant in Bo Kaap for the malaysian gastronomy. This community down from the Asian slaves of cape combines oriental flavours with India and southeast Asia with the african ingredients. We recommend you order several dishes to share them, in order to enjoy a maximum of specialities. Meats cooked biryani, an oriental spices marinade, in Kalya curry, and typical dishes of the community, including the denning vleis or the bobotie. A very simple, affordable family restaurant. Opportunity to takeaway.

Beluga is the name of a large grain caviar that can be ordered in this renowned restaurant in Cape Town. Very fashionable, he has already welcomed Bill Clinton, Samuel L. Jackson and Tiger Woods. The lighting is soft and the romantic atmosphere. Some of the rooms offer a bit of a overrated atmosphere, but the fusion kitchen is tasty. Cocktails and sushi at half price before.

Set up in the warehouses of a former fishery, the interior of the restaurant resembles the cabins of English ships and one is greeted by waiters dressed in foam. This restaurant receives quality fish and shellfish directly. It is famous for its succulent fisherman's basket: squid, mussels, shrimps, fish and lobsters. The outside terrace, upstairs, is the most pleasant place to enjoy the view of the bay and to spot sea lions. Remember to make reservations, especially at weekends, as the place is busy.

A restaurant installed in a superb estate, we cross the vineyards to reach the castle famous for its red wines, and in particular its remarkable Syrah. At The Spice Route, local cuisine is served with a variety of local wines, or you can enjoy the pizza and burger bar. The large terrace opens onto the surrounding landscape, with fields, vineyards and mountains in the distance. It's so nice to live in the open air! There is also a chocolate factory and a bar where you can buy different types of biltongs and dried meat.

A Belgian restaurant must serve good mussels, and this one honours the tradition! The sunny terrace at the water's edge is very pleasant and offers an absolutely superb view of Table Mountain. Den Anker also has a very nice collection of Belgian beers in bottles and on draught, but also in the form of a tasting. And what else? Norman fish soup, tartars, marrow bones, Belgian chocolates. A detour into the bonhomie of the flat country, but all under the sun of beautiful Cape Town.

An Ethiopian restaurant, that's a change from steak houses. The flavours of this country, known for being spicy and rich in aromatic herbs, are here revisited in an Eastern, Western and African way. The dishes, which are eaten with the fingers, are served on pretty traditional tables called "mesob". There is a wide choice of vegetarian dishes. The service is slow, but the cuisine is fantastic. Be careful, the spicy dishes are very strong. Ask for "mild" if you are not used to it, and it is already more than spicy enough, believe us!

Ever since the Lighthouse Café opened its doors, everyone has been flocking there to enjoy its brightness, character and good food. Fish and chips, scrambled egg and bacon croissants, good fresh salads, garnished and colourful: in short, everything to enjoy and a beautiful atmosphere, a little French, a little Provencal, a little coastal with its shades of pastel blue. We like to spend time with friends, with a book, for breakfast with a good sparkling cappuccino, for lunch around a refreshing plate.

A brewery that plays the beautiful Italian behind its terrace to live in black glasses. A card full of good ideas to the tomato for a meal with family or friends.

Good jazz club and restaurant on a waterfront wharf. The dishes have special names: Casa Luma calamari, Parker's surfer, Soldberg's fresh water prawns.

Overlooking the beach of Camps Bay, this bar-restaurant offers a nice view for lunch or dinner or simply to have an aperitif at sunset time. The interior is decorated in a contemporary African style, brightened up by many green plants. The menu features well-prepared signature dishes, seafood and fish, and wood-fired pizzas. Wide selection of house cocktails and a well-stocked wine list. At the entrance, a small boutique features quality local products. Good welcome from the staff.

Crowned with many awards, this award-winning restaurant of contemporary French cuisine stands at the top of a hill overlooking vineyards and the mountains. Here, an organic garden is directly used by the restaurant. All of Cape Town's good society flocks here on weekend evenings. Stilted but romantic atmosphere. Tasting menu of 7 to 11 courses for lunch and dinner, prepared under the guidance of chef Scot Kirton, each of which can be accompanied by a different wine to try. But also two menus of 7 and 11 vegetarian dishes, for the fans of haute cuisine without meat.

A modern and lively bistro, just like the youth of Cape Town. In the pleasant V&A Waterfront area of the waterfront, the terrace is large and shaded. At the Belthazar, the menu oscillates between land and sea. Sublime pieces of grilled beef, kebabs, or Mozambique camarones, seafood and other top-quality grilled fish. But the place is also known as a wine bar. On the side of the pine trees, a considerable selection of wines by the glass that you can taste with pleasure, paired with the luminous bar of the Belthazar.

Mzoli's: an institution in Cape Town. Mzoli's Ngcawuzele has helped develop tourism in the township of Gugulethu. Originally a butcher's shop, Mzoli's opened a restaurant in the garage, which soon became "the place to be". It is one of the few places where families and young people of all ethnic and social backgrounds mingle. People come here for the meat grilled on traditional braai and for the sound: kwaito, house, township music, real music, mixed by local DJs. You can buy your consos right next door. At night, we go to the nightclub!