Author: footloose

Pop into Pomodoro for a Pizza, perfect day for it. Then again every day is perfect for a pizza at Pomodoro…..

So, I have now been exploring the various restaurants in and around Knysna for a while. A good few weeks. Still a way to go and I haven’t even begun my look at the guest houses.
There are some amazing places to eat in knysna and I look forward to trying out the hotel restaurants. They have such an excellent reputation. Of course, the articles I have been writing explain what the places are about and stress the positives.
There is such a thing as a bad restaurant in Knysna. I have drunk cocktails in chipped and scratched beer glasses. (Is this a fad I was unaware of?) I have seen ordinary bits of hake presented as a delicacy. The time for that sort of thing appears to have passed however. With the new cuisine culture that has a hold of everybody.
In a way it might have been inevitable that we would start enjoying food here since the whole experience of Knysna is very close to nature and eating food, when you think about it is as natural as it gets.

18th May…cold and rainy in Knysna, can’t complain we have had fabulous weather this summer.

Popped in to Café d’ Arté, on Main Street, with some business colleagues for a meeting and to attempt to warm up and that we did.

Erna is a lovely host, keen to help and happy to serve you a hot cup of delicious coffee. The menu looks exciting and certainly tempting for those with a sweet tooth. So if you are looking for cinnamon pancakes in Knysna these are worth a try.

[edit 08/06/12] Erna and Malachi decided it wasn’t going to work but hopefully something will happen soon.

Will certainly call in again, rain or shine.

When in George I invariably end up at Travel Bugs. They serve Lavazza coffee and there is always something out of the ordinary to try off their menu.

This time I ordered their breakfast wrap and I was not disappointed. It was a perfect balance between egg, chorizo, cheese and cherry tomatoes. I couldn’t have asked for a better breakfast.

PE is not a pretty city. And Valley Rd is one of the last places you would expect to find a friendly stranger. But find one you will, on Upper Valley Road in a stone  building that used to be the harbour master’s house.

There is a downstairs lounge with very low ceiling that is different, a retreat from the chic coffee shop upstairs.

The menu includes salads, burgers, flatbreads, nachos, pies and steaks. Next door there is a micro brewery and coffee roastery, making this another food focused destination

1 Bridge St, South End, Brickmakers Kloof, Port Elizabeth, 072 650-1487.

Hunters Country House offers beautiful seating areas to enjoy the country style fare on offer.

Breakfasts are served in the sunny glass conservatory and offer a selection of tasty treats to start the day. Light lunches are served in the dining room or on the lawns. The outdoor boma with its comfortable couches and fireplace, invites you to enjoy a high tea or a glass of bubbly as the sun sets over the gardens.

Ask a local about home cooked meals, tea rooms, cakes and bakes and it is odds on, they will steer you to The Deli in Aldwick.

Stunning fried free breakfasts. Freshly made using free range eggs, premium butchers sausages and bacon. Served with beans real toast, sauteed potatoes or bubble and squeak

Home made daily lunch specials with a traditional roast on Thursdays.

Then there is Friday which is pie day. Cumberland pie, lamb and mint pie, chicken, mushroom and peppercorn sauce pie, sweet chilli, cheddar and spring onion quiche and a Brie, cranberry and stuffing strudel.

As tasty as the choices which one has, are imaginative.

Leaving the best to last. Cakes, Bakes, Millionaire Shortbread and their house speciality Rocky Road slices.

I make a point of trying to avoid the hustle and bustle that comes with takeaway coffees and people in a rush.

Which is reason enough to pick up a newspaper and settle down at the Eternal Baker

A retreat that that is a bit different. Busy in a different sense of the word.

This is what  memories are made of. Home made malva pudding, fresh out the oven with a generous dolop of custard. Hot sweet rich Malva pudding. The ubiquitous South African dessert originally from Holland, comfort food personified.