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The 45 best restaurants in Cape Town
From laid-back lunches to fine dining, or finding the best late-night ramen, Cape Town is always hungry. Here are the best places to eat in the Mother City!
Food & Drink
Take a bite out of Africa's culinary capital, with Time Out's expert pick of the best Cape Town restaurants, bars, cafés and more!
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The best winter menu specials in Cape Town
Where to enjoy the spoils of winter in the Mother City!
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The 13 best bakeries in Cape Town
We've found a baker's dozen of places to satisfy that carb craving...
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The best affordable restaurants in Cape Town
Watching your pennies, pence and cents when you’re out and about?
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The 21 best bars in Cape Town
These are the spots to know when you’re thirsty in the Mother City
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BURI
It’s like that boerie roll you remember from the family camping holiday or the school fête. Only... better
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Arum
Chef Peter Tempelhoff brings his signature style to Boschendal Farm, with a menu of meaty magic
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Kleinsky's Constantia
Sea Point’s bagel supremos head to the southern suburbs, bringing New York-style deli classics to the leafy lanes of Constantia
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Bascule Bar
For more than two decades, the Bascule has been one of Cape Town's fine whiskey drinking institutions
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Bistro Sixteen82
Bistro Sixteen82 delivers relaxed tapas, expressive terroir wines and a dose of Constantia Valley calm that’s well worth indulging in
Mother Sippy: Cape Town in a glass
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Pop the cork on Palomino
This limited release offers a taste of one of the Cape’s most historic – and overlooked – grape varieties
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The World's Best Brandy
Some of the world’s very best brandy is made less than an hour from the Mother City...
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Eight cellars. One wine
Pour a glass of this pioneering collab project that offers Sauvignon Blanc fans a true taste of Durbanville terroir
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Wine of the Tijger
De Grendel’s latest release is a bold statement in just how good South African Merlot can be
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Latest food & drink news
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The sober foodie's guide to spending 48 hours in Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch is more than wine country. It’s also foodie-adjacent, which makes it a unicorn.
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Kleinsky's has a new Waterfront address
The much-loved Sea Point deli launches a brand-new store this weekend… Go for the bagels, stay for the rugelach and leave with a babka!
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I did a fine water tasting. Wait, hear me out
When fine water tasting first became a thing, many scoffed at it as bougie and pretentious. I was one of those people.
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I went in search of Cape Town's best bunny chow
Time Out South Africa's Mervyn Naidu channelled his inner Elmer Fudd in search of the tastiest bunny in town.
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Pizza Shed fires up in the southern suburbs
This popular Cape Town pizzeria is opening a 130-seat restaurant in the southern suburbs, complete with a covered deck serving up mountain views.
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Ramenhead is moving!
One of Cape Town’s favourite Asian eateries is packing up and heading to a noo(dle) home in the city… and, it’s taking over the space of another Cape Town...
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Where the All Blacks should be eating in Athlone
The All Blacks are training within tackling distance of two Cape Town fast-food institutions. Will somebody please point Beauden Barrett in the direction of a...
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New authentic Vietnamese restaurant opens in CBD
Viet Roots in Cape Town offers a pho-nomenal dining experience (yes, we could not help the pun).
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Chefs Warehouse & Canteen has closed
As Liam Tomlin shutters his iconic inner-city eatery, the OG of small-plates has served its last ‘Tapas-for-Two’.
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Alain Roux and Ángel León are cooking together in Cape Town
Cape Town diners will have just four nights to experience Amura’s most ambitious culinary collaboration yet.