Here, amid a gaily-painted decor with whimsical Zulu fertility dolls hanging from the ceiling, they offer excellent real Afrikkaner fare. The menu includes Ethiopian white curd cheese, a tantalizing couscous and date salad, sweet potato balls with sesame seeds, ostrich in a paprika sauce, chicken curry, Egyptian kasha with brown rice and lentils, pea and potato patties, phyllo pastries of spinach and peanuts, fruit kebabs, and coconut ice cream. Shrimpton's Manor is a small private hotel-restaurant at a seaside resort 20 minutes from Cape Town. Chef-owner Hilary Fischhoff features stellar seafood and Continental fare. Or enjoy freshly churned mango, passion fruit, or white chocolate ice cream.
Dessert showcases individual ice cream-filled pavlova with raspberries, adorned with nasturtiums.
Bertrams Pinotage 1990 is poured. 23454 Whale watching from June to December is great sport at Bientang's Cave Seafood Restaurant, an open stone cave in a seaport about an hour's drive from Capetown. In a breath-taking setting above the sparkling sea, whales cavort 10 meters away. The staff serve a seafood buffet commencing with bouillabaise, followed by grilled white salmon, yellowtail, and king klip, and a half dozen salads including potato, pasta, calamari, coleslaw, carrot and pineapple, and waldorf. Warm bread pudding with rum sauce and cherry ice cream round out this feast.