The best bars and cafés South Africa

In this 1930s factory converted into a shopping mall, The Salvation Café welcomes visitors for a gourmet break with friends or family. It is often necessary to wait a little to see a table available, but it is worth the wait! Waffles, pancakes, crispy croissants, homemade cakes, eggs Benedict... everything is delicious. We also enjoy fresh salads, gourmet burgers and hearty dishes at lunchtime. Great variety of drinks including excellent smoothies. Enough to get your strength back before a little shopping!

Located in Waterkant and Main Road at Sea Point, Manhattan Café is a popular day bar, frequented by gay people as well as the hetero. Very pleasant tables outside. Wi-Fi.

In this classy restaurant, jazz concerts easy-listening, world music and lounge music accompany dinner.

Student bar with punk, ska, hip-hop and rock. Paired with neighboring bars, kind of delirium Lord of the Rings: Gandalf's, Mordor and Gotham. Here, the music is even metal, gothic and hard. For genre lovers, neurds and geeks.

A lively café-restaurant, the temple of nightlife in Obs', as Observatory is called, the student district of Cape Town, very bohemian and intellectual as we like them, with its bobos and friendly students in a New York atmosphere. The place is very large and rather relaxed, you can meet there for an aperitif with friends to sip a good craft beer or an elaborate house cocktail. You can even order a pizza to share, cooked on a wood fire, or sit down to taste a delicate cuisine based on meat or fish.

Trendy café with large windows on Long Street. Beautiful vintage and colorful decoration, flowers are placed on each table. It is the ideal place to have breakfast, a light lunch or a coffee during the day. Simple and delicious dishes inspired by world cuisines. Examples: poached pear, walnut and gorgonzola salad, fish cake, the chef's specialty, chicken with Cajun sauce. Everything is fresh, good, healthy, well cooked, it quickly becomes a canteen. Fresh detox juice: apple, spinach, cucumber, or carrot, spinach, celery, beet.

Grounded at Echo has been created as a real place to live from 6am, a space where people can relax, chat, and drink a good coffee. There is a dedicated area for coworking, where people come to potter, work or brainstorm. For lunch, there are simple, fresh and effective recipes, pasta with pesto, homemade hummus, or Sunday brunch with eggs Bénédicte. Also, many events are regularly organized: you can find a yoga class, or dance evenings...

The coffee temple in Muizenberg. Located in one of the most popular surfing cities in South Africa, if not the world, the Empire Café offers a breathtaking view of the ocean towards Seal Island. Guests appreciate the friendly atmosphere and the excellent quality of the coffee. The Empire's bakers offer daily real butter croissants, ciabatta sandwiches and farmhouse brown bread, as well as a wide range of biscuits and confectionery. Snacks and dishes are also available upon request.

The Yard is a trendy café and restaurant with a breathtaking view of the MOCCA Museum of Contemporary African Art and its original building. Large room with bar and open kitchen in the central island. In this new developing district right next to the Waterfront: the Silo district. A very pleasant industrial and contemporary atmosphere, but above all, a modern and very nicely served kitchen. It's also nice to stop for a delicious iced coffee at the bend in the walk to cool off on the terrace in the afternoon.

A true Cape Town institution, Rick's Café has taken up residence in the vibrant Kloof Street area. Originally housed in a 110 year old Victorian house, the new home has just as much charm, with the added bonus of the cosy balcony on the corner of Kloof Street and Weltevreden. Inside, the décor is unchanged and reminiscent of the film Casablanca. The décor is cosy, with velvet benches and colourful mosaics on the walls and on the stairs. Wrought iron candlesticks subdue the atmosphere.

The highest rooftop on the waterfront in the pretty Camps Bay area. Come up for a drink at the end of the day to enjoy the view at sunset, which is then splendid. The ambience is both chic and casual with soft armchairs, sofas and rattan tables. Colourful cushions and small lanterns bring a cocooningtouch to the placeto taste the delicious cocktails and listen to live music.

It's a hidden, secret, underground bar... although a little less, now that you've been tipped off. You have to go through the chocolate factory to find the gin bar, nestled in a secret courtyard. Gin is fashionable in South Africa, you will be served cocktails of all colours made from this alcohol. Unfound, almost invisible, welcome to this beautiful space with Mediterranean air where the sun shines during the day and the lanterns sparkle at night, welcome to Gin Bar!

Just a few years after opening, this new-generation bar is a real success. The concept: a liquid menu! We offer these drinking pleasures in starter, main course and dessert formulas. The bartenders are true artists, playing with flavors and presentations, and putting on a show as they prepare the drinks. The cocktails are creations served on plates just like in a gourmet restaurant. A truly unique experience. It's smoky, it's colorful, it's lively and you want to try it all... Nice!

Diggies Pub & Grill is a friendly pub just 3 km from Kimberley's largest shopping center, Diamond Pavilion Mall. You can have breakfast and nibbles for lunch, or dine with friends. Here, the atmosphere is that of an old American pub: a long wooden bar, an ultra-matt atmosphere under a low ceiling and exposed stone walls, a few screens for sports nights, squares of banquettes and large, round, high tables for enjoying a good local beer with friends.

A bar with a lounge atmosphere above the Sirocco restaurant. You have to go inside the restaurant and take the stairs to get there. There is a beautiful terrace with a view of the lagoon and with cosy corners. Inside there are cosy sofas and round tables to share good times with friends. The alcohol menu is very complete and the cocktails are extraordinary and original. Try the delicious passion or blueberry mojitos!

The San Deck Bar is simply the hotel bar of the same name. It's an open-air, rooftop party place with a splendid view of the Sandton area, which is a popular area, especially for expats arriving in Johannesburg. On the rooftop, you can lie down in deckchairs to listen to live music and a DJ on weekends. In fact, the popularity of this place is undisputed and indisputable. When the evening comes, the sunsets are magical and the cocktails are particularly delicious.

Probably the coolest rooftop in town to watch the sunset while sipping a beer, a house cocktail or a smoothie. A rooftop garden, a bohemian atmosphere, plants in all directions, wooden furniture and lounge music to spend a great time in the trendy bar of Johannesburg. The goal: the perfect mix between urban and natural, between trendy and green. Feeling peckish? The tapas are fresh, original and colourful! Privatizations are possible.

Just a stone's throw from the Maboneng district, nestles a beautiful rooftop . The AGOG Gallery is above all a beautiful exhibition gallery that you can admire while climbing the floors leading you to the roof. The exhibitions vary regularly, always of a very high quality. Upstairs: a beautiful atmosphere, a swing, sofas and regularly events are organized. These range from concerts to dance classes... For a hundred rand, you come to take a kizomba or samba class on Friday evenings from 7 to 8 pm.

It's in a huge and impressive warehouse full of antiques and worldly trinkets that you're about to have a drink or two! The Sir James Van Der Merwe is like a big glass roof, with black and white checkerboard floor tiles, a central square bar and lounge areas with large sofas here and there. An eclectic, lively and energetic space to spend a good evening dancing, listening to live music when it's available, playing pool or just chatting over a drink or a bite to eat.

Here the glasses are in the spotlight, the drinks, and not the cocktails because we don't call them that here, are all more original one than the other. Orange peel, beetroot sometimes, basil, freshness, a sweet balance in each mix. They are true works of art, worked to seduce you! As beautiful as they are fresh and delicious. For those who would not drink alcohol, there is no worry, we can prepare you non-alcoholic drinks that are also to fall.