5 fabulous food adventures in South Africa

Many travellers returning from a trip to South Africa can’t stop raving about the delicious food they ate while there. Yet, strangely enough, South Africa doesn’t jump to mind when talking about gastronomic travel, but it really, really should!

We have gone in search, with empty tummies and suitably clad with elasticated waste bands, of some of South Africa’s best foodie adventures. Like the country itself, her food is rich, diverse and unforgettable. From street food to gourmet dining we’ve searched high and low. So, as they say down south Smaaklike Ete! (that’s Bon Appétit! to you and me).

Bo-Kaap Cooking Tour

The rows of colourful houses along upper Wale Street and down Chiappini Street have become almost as iconic as their majestic Table Mountain backdrop. This is the Bo-Kaap, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the country. The cheery palette brightening the lower slopes of Signal Hill belies an altogether much murkier past, of…