Heritage day! And what is Heritage Day without a braai?? Soasaties, bread, wors, corn, beets, salad and traditional apple crumble and cream!
However, before we indulged in all that, we headed off to Durbanville Hills for a glass of wine and a stunning, local is lekker, view of Cape Town.
Then a quick wine tasting at Nitida - a quaint little winery with some big wines.
I also managed to get myself a new cook book to ad to my collection... MasterChef here I come, haha!
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| Reading through the recipes in my new book |
Proudly South African Day was a blast... good food, good wine, good company, great weather... I still don't know why anyone would want to be anywhere else.
Wednesday 25 Sept
Stellenbosch Day! Not having a GPS and having to rely my directions, addresses and the help of Google maps on my phone has been entertaining! U-turn, U-turn, U-turn!
We finally made it to Legado Coffee café in Techo park - too much planned for the day and time delays saw us missing out on the roastery and just picking up a take-away and some Ice-cream Community 65% choc ice-cream. Yum Yum Yum! - no other words!We then made our way through the jam packed streets of Stellies to The Bird Cage Tea Bar.
I read about this place and recommendations from friends and family made it a must on my list.
I don't think words can fully describe how amazing the lemon butter chicken on rice really was...even my dad was left speechless so that's saying a lot!
Huge round of applause to the chefs of this must see Tea Bar!
Our final stop in Stellies was my fav place in the Western Cape - JC le Roux
Bubbles everywhere!
I held out the last time I visited and so this time, the nougat pairing wasn't even a question!
And I promise you, you'll never look at Turkish delight the same way again... heaven!
We wrapped up Wednesday with the family at the original Waterfront Tavern, Ferrymans at the V & A.
This girl went all 'pub' out and dined on fish and chips (with peas) and a beer!
Not sure I'll do the beer again, but the rest wasn't half bad :-)
Thursday 26 Sept
New York bagel sounded (and looked) like the place to be. We took a leisurely walk from the apartment to get coffee and a bagel before starting the day.
This restaurant is open from 6h30 to 4pm and boasts a large variety of deli food.
However by 11am, they had no muffins, no croissants and the funny thing is, they weren't going to make more! WHAT?!?
Strange as it was, I still managed to get a bagel and coffee - not a place I'd go back to...sorry guys.
After a strange start to the day we made our way to Constantia Glen wine farm - stunning! By this stage all wine tastes the same to me but the personality of the people working there makes this farm a must for everyone! You'll end up buying 6 bottles!
The Creamery was last on my list
for the day.
Making our way to Dean street in Newlands was another set of u-turns, but we got there!
Ok people, a double scoop has to be on everyones bucket list - you cannot die before trying this homemade ice-cream! 65% choc! Coffee! Peanut butter! Heaven on earth!
They actually serve other food as well but who cares!
Loved it!
The weather started to turn on us as we headed back to Sea Point.
Everyone was hungry for some salty food so we made a pit stop at a cute little place on the beachfront - New Point deli - Google it, its made a name for itself!
That's it for part 2 of my trip... the week is coming to an end and I feel like there is still so much more I want to do. At least I can go back for visits any time :-)
Toodles xx
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