Food tours

Cheryl Wyngaard (right) explains to guests the best way to cook fish.

Ocean View - a township experience with a difference

Learn how to prepare local seafood – including prawns, crayfish and mussels – the traditional Cape way while on a township food tour of Ocean View near Cape Town.

The Sabie Valley Coffee Tour

If you like to get your kicks from caffeine, then the Sabie Valley Coffee Tour is a must. From the moment you walk through the doors of the Sabie Valley Coffee building, you will be in seventh heaven.

Wegraakbosch Farm

Visit Wegraakbosch Farm and see how they make their award-winning organic cheeses. The farm is set atop the beautiful heights of Limpopo's Magoebaskloof and offers daily tours of their cheese dairy.

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Kuhestan Organic Farm

Kuhestan Organic Farm offers weekend cooking courses in the Magoebaskloof, where you get to learn about Persian cuisine in a beautiful mountain setting

Karoo cookery school

Culinary travellers and food lovers will relish the chance to cook South African soul food in the Karoo using local, seasonal produce.

Winemaker interaction tours

Who better to explain a wine than the person who made it? Interacting with winemaker allows the traveller to truly savour our world-famous wines.

Township cuisine tours

Township food tours offer everything from jazz and barbequed meats in the street to sundowners and fine food in fancy hotels.

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Dining out on delicious seafood at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

Good food and wine are a highlight of any trip to South Africa.

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Halaal restaurants

Bismillah in Fordsburg

Super cheap Pakistani cuisine in a shabby chic, inner city space. Ghee-drizzled naan breads, cashew-topped chicken korma, and sweet lassi yoghurt drinks from heaven. 78 Mint Road (corner of Bree and...
Bibi’s Kitchen

It is impossible to praise the North Indian style butter chicken or matar paneer (pea and cheese mélange) too highly. The pistachio and cardamom kulfi ice cream is a must. Broad Road Medical...
Biesmillah

Classic Cape Malay cuisine. Expect crayfish curry with fragrant saffron rice, lamb laden tomato bredie stews and sago pudding with just the right hint cardamom. 2 Upper Wale Street, Bo-Kaap, Cape...
Noon Gun

Everything on the menu is delicious but try to arrive in the afternoon to enjoy the 'Cape Malay tea plate' which includes tender dahltjie (chilli bites) and coconut rolled koesisters. 273 Longmarket...
Oriental Palace

Pakistani food served from an inner-city 1960s hotel. Whether you pick coriander-laden reshmi chicken kebabs, bhindi gosht okra and lamb curry, or aloo naan paratha bread, it is all delicious. The...
Al-Amin

This Pakistani restaurant was once a car showroom so don’t expect décor frills. The aloo paratha with cumin infused potato filling and the prawn briyani are among the best. 217 Jewel Street,...
Mesopotamia Kurdish Restaurant

Kurdish cuisine deluxe. Mezze platters of Alinazik aubergines and Rojda lentils compete for customer attention with Serok lamb with green pepper and onion from the tandoori oven. Belly dancers and...
To Go Restaurant

Euro-centric casual cuisine (steak, spaghetti bolognaise) all week. Friday buffets of South Indian specialities and Sunday breakfasts that sees a fusion of the two (scrambled eggs peppered with...
Uncle Faouzi

The best Lebanese food in Gauteng. The baba guanouj has just the right combination of sesame and lemon juice. The labne maa toum yoghurt cheese is divine. 1102 Burnett Street, Hatfield, Pretoria....
Al-Makka

Décor is ghastly but the Pakistani, Indian, Chinese and fast food is fantastic. Do try the cumin kebabs topped with mustard seed pickle. Clientele are gregarious local family parties so expect people...