Urbanologist and Founder of 'A Found World', Amy Ellery hand picks her favourite restaurants in Cape Town...
I’m am not a breakfast person but absolutely love the breakfast at Clarke's on Bree Street. The vibe is cool, the service is great, and the breakfasts and juices are delicious. I love the Huevos Racheros with avocado and queso fresco cheese. The Bloody Mary is perfect for a hungover Sunday too. If you do go later in the day, they do an amazing burger - and the cocktails are fabulous. A super relaxed hang out on one of the coolest streets in Cape Town.
After spending almost 3 years between Cape Town and London, I have really missed having a members club to work from. The Stack opened in March this year after it burnt down a year before leaving the owners even more focused on rebuilding and bettering the offer. The restaurant and bar are open to the public and offer fantastic french style brasserie food. The menu is bistro simple and the kitchen seems to have mastered it. The cocktails are some the best I have had in Cape Town, with the service feeling decidedly European. Upstairs there is a gorgeous space to work and use for members only with 3 meeting rooms that you can book out. This is a much needed club in Cape Town and the latest place to eat, drink, work and play.
ASH restaurant is being set up in collaboration with free-range butchery Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants and Publik Wine. Chef and owner, Ash Heeger. offers straightforward, exceptional quality nose to tail approach food with brilliant meat dishes paired perfectly with wine. The Chef Ash, cut her teeth under Luke Dale Roberts, possibly Cape Towns most famous chef and owner of the Test Kitchen, Pot Luck Club and the new ShortMarket Club. The menu is short and simple and what they do they do exceptional well. The puddings are rich and naughty - I last had the ice cream sandwich which was sublime. The wines are well priced and perfectly paired with all the dishes. Service, again, is some of the best in Cape Town.
One of my all time favourite foods is dim sum. It was proving incredibly difficult to find good dim sum in Cape Town until I stumbled across this little hole in the wall establishment at the top of Long Street. The menu is short, simple and everything on it is perfection. Each little parcel has perfectly thin, delicate pastry, the filling are all freshly prepared there in front of you. The har gow and beef potstickers are some of the best I have eaten in the World,not just Cape Town.
Located under the pedestrian fan-walk bridge in the Waterkant area, it is an unlikely location for such a special palace. Hemelhuijs (heavenly house) has two important parts – Chef/designer Jacques Erasmus’ love of modern, rich and interesting design, and his love of Afrikaner food. He is constantly reinventing the style of the interior and the menu. This makes it a very popular choice for a weekday lunch or Saturday brunch. The food served here is incredible and creative. Tempura tuna is a favourite alongside a veal dish sliced thin and served with parmesan, lemon and rocket. The drinks are interesting too. A must.
By Amy Ellery, Director and Founder of A Fournd World.
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