The best restaurants Eastern Cape

Ginger is a gourmet restaurant located on the waterfront of Port Elizabeth. The friendly atmosphere of the city extends to the restaurant. The combination is very simple: fresh, local ingredients, new ideas to make particularly original dishes and an award-winning wine list to enjoy. Whether you want to enjoy a lunch with friends in the open air facing the sea or a romantic dinner listening to the sound of the waves while sipping a cocktail, the Ginger offers a great experience.

Dinner only, except Sunday. Forget the street without soul and enter this elegant temple of the sea. Beautiful à la carte, shellfish and crustaceans. Super Zen decoration and charming service!

Frequented by regulars and tourists alike, this restaurant features Italian specialties. Bruschettas, delicately cooked pastas or natural sourdough pizzas are served with a good South African wine. The menu also includes gourmet salads and some local dishes such as chicken mayonnaise, served with seasonal vegetables and French fries. The atmosphere is friendly and warm. Attentive and efficient waiters.

In a privileged setting at the foot of the Seal Point Lighthouse, this restaurant will delight the most discerning palate with its delicate and creative dishes, varying with the seasons. Here, guests are invited to share dishes for the ultimate dining experience. Start with oysters caught off the coast served with a Thai sauce before succumbing to tuna sashimi or duck breast, accompanied by a delicious wood-fired potato bread. Ask for information, tours of the lighthouse are organized. You can also sleep on the spot.

In a New York atmosphere with a designer decor, Como Caffé is the little corner of Italy in the hectic American city of Port Elizabeth. On the menu? Paninis, gourmet burgers, colorful salads, and of course pasta and pizza. You can also enjoy a good coffee and fruit cocktails prepared on the spot. It's also a delicatessen offering well-made local specialties. Take a tour of the bar to appreciate the unique furniture and beautiful contemporary pieces. A must-see!

Fascinated by the city, its style and especially by surfing, the Smith family arrives at J-Bay. The establishment is named after their first daughter, Nina, who left at a very young age. Since then they have been blessed with three beautiful surfers who work in the family business when they are not competing or on the water. A la carte, hearty dishes: ostrich steak, bowls of poké with sliced pork nachos, roast lamb, crispy Mediterranean salad or hamburgers. Whether you are gluten-free, vegetarian, gourmet, carnivore... you will be won over!

At Grazia Fine Food, Italy comes first on the plates. Here you can enjoy fresh pasta made with delicious and fresh seafood, hand-made ravioli filled with meat and parmesan. You can taste the Cajun chicken pasta with feta cheese, sundried tomatoes and creamy sauce with piri-piri, the local chilli pepper. A pleasant restaurant inside, and what a beautiful and large terrace! It offers a magnificent view of the sea. A great place to enjoy a good meal and drink a cocktail at sunset.

Simone and Allan, the owners of the establishment, offer a refined cuisine, reinventing and modernizing classics. Here the products are carefully selected: wild fennel from the kloof, beach salicornia and sea salt, homemade fermented vinegar and flavoured cheeses on site. The meat is supplied by a small local butcher and all fresh produce comes from small independent suppliers, all of whom are organic. Allan is proud to say that he doesn't freeze anything, except when absolutely necessary!

Marius and Lorraine are happy to share this place. Come and take a look at the waves and dolphins that certainly make this place one of the most special of the city. The origin of the name Kitchen Windows refers to the surf spot to the right of the restaurant. Becoming popular in the 1960s, surfers of the time would look out their kitchen windows to see if the surf was rolling in. A family restaurant with good wine and good food.

A very nice place to have a little sandwich break, or rather bocadillos. Bocadillos is both a bakery and a restaurant. Here the culinary experience is very relaxed, something different every time you pass by. Salads, nachos, burritos, tacos: the place takes us on a trip to Latin America for lunch or dinner. The bakery with its modern decoration also offers breakfasts from 7:30 in the morning.

The Sanook Cafe is the kind of small coffee shop where you like to stop for a drink. Under a roof of corrugated concrete covered with a pretty lighting installation, there is a long space and a few tables that sit enthroned to welcome the greedy with beautiful paintings on the brick wall painted white. Here, you can eat dishes made with fresh products, as well as good and beautiful pizzas, huge and very copious hamburgers, in short a good address to treat yourself in a warm and relaxed atmosphere.

Fancy some sushi or Asian dishes? Sushibraz welcomes you in a simple but friendly setting to serve you fresh, classic or creative sushi, surely the best in town. The menu also offers salads, sizzling beef stir fry, curry dishes and delicious spring rolls. The plates are both pleasing to the taste buds and to the eyes, as they are so copious and well presented. Very good service. Delivery to the hotel is possible.