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Butterflied chicken grilled hard and painted with a garlic, chilli and lemon oil until the skin blisters. Cape Town's Afro-Lusitanian standard, usually ordered with chips and a bottle of the sauce.
Peri-peri is the malagueta chilli that Portuguese traders carried around southern Africa, and the name comes from the Ronga word for pepper in southern Mozambique. The sauce is chilli and garlic in an oily or acidic base, often with lemon, paprika, bay and a splash of spirits. Cape Town's version arrived with Madeiran families who settled from the 1930s and with Portuguese speakers who left Angola and Mozambique after 1975, opening the corner cafes and taverns that still grill it. That is the same community that gave the city the prego roll and trinchado.
2 editor picks for Peri-peri chicken in Cape Town, ranked by editorial score. All Cape Town signature dishes · Peri-peri chicken across every city.
Petiscos has grilled Luso-Mozambican prawns and peri-peri chicken in Parklands near Table View, on the northern edge of Cape Town, since 2006.
OrderThe grilled lemon-butter prawns, the dish that built this no-frills room's following.
TipThe kitchen closes at 21:00 from Tuesday to Thursday, 21:30 on Friday and Saturday and 16:00 on Sunday.
Dias Tavern has served Portuguese trinchado, prego steaks on hot skillets and grilled chicken on Caledon Street in Cape Town's District Six since 1988.
TipBook ahead for a weekend table, order the rump trinchado in its homemade sauce, and note it is closed on Sundays.
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