Harbour House has sat over the water at Kalk Bay harbour, Cape Town, since 1996, plating seafood platters and grilled linefish with a False Bay view.
OrderSeafood platter for two, split between grilled and fried
TipAsk for a window table when booking, the harbour view is the reason regulars keep coming back.
Live Bait sits below Harbour House on the Kalk Bay breakwater in Cape Town, a casual seafood room known for its smoked paprika calamari and hake.
OrderPan fried smoked paprika calamari, or the battered hake with basil mayo
TipAsk for a seat by the wall of windows: from late July humpback and southern right whales come into the bay and are often visible from the tables.
Kalky's has served battered hake and snoek with chips from a cabin on the Kalk Bay harbour wall since 1996, with calamari, kingklip and crayfish too.
OrderThe fried snoek and chips, cut fresh from the day's catch at the harbour.
TipIt is cash only and self-service; carry notes and expect to queue at the counter before finding a bench.
Free Bird Muizenberg fries halaal certified, free-range chicken burgers a block from the surf beach in Muizenberg, on the edge of greater Cape Town.
OrderThe buttermilk fried chicken burger, the sandwich the whole menu is built around.
TipIt is a short walk from Muizenberg's surf beach, so it is an easy stop after a morning in the water.
Olympia Cafe and Deli is a no-bookings harbourside room in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, serving all day breakfasts, bread from its own bakery and simple deli plates.
DrinkFilter coffee
TipYou cannot book, so join the line like everyone before you and read the chalkboard menu while you wait for a table.
Empire Cafe is a double volume neighbourhood cafe in Muizenberg, Cape Town, serving all day breakfast, burgers and pasta near the surf break.
DrinkFlat white
TipThe chalkboard menu changes morning and afternoon; order a BBQ or mushroom burger with hand-cut chips and look out towards the sea.
The Lighthouse Cafe is a pavement style eatery on St George's Street in Simon's Town, Cape Town, serving coastal breakfasts and fish and chips.
DrinkCappuccino
TipTake a pavement table and order the beer-battered fish and chips, made to Jamie Oliver's recipe, for lunch.
Knead Bakery at Surfer's Corner in Muizenberg bakes sourdough, rye and ciabatta on site, a stop surfers make before or after the waves in Cape Town.
Worth the queueSourdough loaf
TipIt sits at Surfer's Corner on Beach Road, so pick up a loaf before or after a surf; last orders are taken at 17:00.
Olympia Cafe and Bakery has baked its sourdough on Main Road since 1997, the counter that anchors Kalk Bay's harbourfront strip south of Cape Town.
Worth the queueSourdough boule
TipNo bookings are taken at the restaurant tables, but the Olympia bakery shop sells loaves to take away from 06:30 to 19:00.
The Sweetest Thing on St George's Street is a patisserie baking French pastries and cakes, with coffee and light meals, near Simon's Town harbour.
Worth the queueFrench pastries and cakes
TipIt serves coffee and light meals beside the pastry counter every day from 08:00, so it works as a breakfast stop as well as a cake run.
Tribe Coffee Roasters runs its roastery from Capricorn Business Park in Muizenberg, Cape Town, supplying Colombian and Ethiopian lots to cafes citywide.
BeansColombia, Ethiopia
TipThis Muizenberg address is the working roastery, not a walk-in cafe, order online or find Tribe beans on a Cape Town menu instead.
Brass Bell began as a council tea room on the Kalk Bay sea wall near Cape Town in 1939, and its Waters Edge Terrace takes spray from the tidal pool.
DrinkDraught beer and sunset cocktails in the Cabin pub
FoodFresh seafood, wood fired pizzas and breakfast at Seaweed and Salt
TipAsk for the Waters Edge Terrace, built into the sea wall at the tidal pool edge, where waves send spray over the tables.
Kalky's is a self-service fried snoek and chips hatch on the working harbour wall in Kalk Bay, on Cape Town's southern peninsula, cash only daily.
TryFried snoek and chips, served on a paper plate at a harbour-wall bench
TipCarry rand notes, queue at the counter, then grab any free bench along the harbour wall to eat.
Blue Bird Garage Food and Goods Market fills an old postal aeroplane hangar in Muizenberg every Thursday and Friday evening south of Cape Town.
TipThere is a play area for children, so it works as a family evening out rather than just a date-night market.
Muizenberg Flea Market fills Sunrise Circle every Sunday with over 300 stalls selling samosas, koesisters, mielies and bric-a-brac near Cape Town's coast.
TipTry the mielies in a cup from R10, and carry some cash, though most stalls also take cards through a card machine.
Kalky's sells battered hake or snoek and chips on the working harbour wall in Kalk Bay, on Cape Town's southern peninsula, from a cabin trading since 1996.
TryDeep fried hake and chips
TipSkip the platter for two unless you are sharing; the single hake and chips already feeds most people.
Free Bird Muizenberg sells large free-range crispy strips and chips for R65 every Wednesday, a halaal certified chicken shop near the surf in Cape Town.
TryLarge crispy chicken strips with chips
TipCome on a Wednesday for the in-store Wow Wednesday deal; on other days the crispy strip burger is the signature order.
Olympia Cafe & Deli serves an unhurried harbourside brunch in Kalk Bay, one of the Cape Town Peninsula's most loved no bookings breakfast rooms.
OrderA breakfast from the chalkboard menu, with bread from the Olympia bakery
TipYou cannot book, so join the line like everyone before you and read the chalkboard menu while you wait for a table.
Bootlegger XS Muizenberg, a halaal branch of the coffee chain, pours coffee and a quick brunch menu across from Surfers Corner, near Cape Town.
OrderA breakfast wrap and a freezo coffee to take onto the promenade
TipTake your order to the promenade wall opposite Surfers Corner and watch the surfers over breakfast.
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