De Waterkant Restaurants

Located along Somerset Road in Green Point, Beefcakes is friendly, fun and on the ball. The décor uplifts with colour and flamboyant attitude starting with pink Flamingo wallpaper, disco balls, feathers and a pimped pink piano patiently waiting on the next performance. Step back in time and discover food that brims with fun, simplicity and indulgent pleasure with wildly entertaining and 50’s fun American burger bar ambiance. The tongue in cheek menu twists and teases with burgers of all shapes and tastes and flavours even offering a ‘build your own burger’ to eager patrons. Take delight in burgers such as Buffy the Hamburger Slayer’ - a gooey mound of bacon, cheddar and beef or the chili string of the Willy Burger. Tables host perfect burgers, well priced wines and cocktails and infectious fun all topped by sequined cowboy hats and live entertainment nights such as ‘Drag Queen, Thursdays’, and ‘Bitchy Bingo, Tuesdays.’

Take a weird and wonderful trip into a fantasy dining experience that you won’t forget!Walk through the velvet drapes and enter a plush dining area with luxurious red velvet chairs and booths surrounded with mirrors. Interact with the resident penguin, the stilt walkers and carnival ladies as they roam and mingle their way through the tables, ensuring that patrons are happy and well tended to.The tickets, purchased up front, include a sumptuous three course meal, typically with a choice between meat, fish and vegetarian, and a complementary drink, all enjoyed whilst being thoroughly entertained by both local and international acts. Sultry singers, hula hoop fire dancers, energetic tap dancers and aerial scarf comedy shows are just some of the delights on stage throughout the four-act evening. There are hats and masks available as well as glittery face painting.The service is impeccable and the atmosphere is electric at this one of a kind, must-try venue in Cape Town’s bustling city centre!

Hemelhuijs Restaurant oozes charm and tradition, inspired from picturesque Dutch heritage. Roughly translated, Hemelhuijs means ‘House of Joy”, and this meaning lends itself throughout the charm, décor and overall dining experience. The interior perfectly balanced by a spread of decadent home ware, modern Zen furniture works seamlessly complimenting a perfect day out shopping and indulging. Tables spill out onto walkways, bending at the whim of indulgent faces scanning the A3 menu offering all day breakfasts, and tantalizing lunches. For breakfast/brunch order fruit and yoghurt, poached eggs, prosciutto, artichoke and hollandaise sauce, scrambled egg, salmon and toasted apple cake and omelet with a maple syrup glaze, bacon, figs and goat’s cheese! A salad such as marzipan and dried apricot layered with roasted chicken is a definite must or the slow roasted lamb ribs and the Hemelhuijs burger topped with creamed mushrooms and poached egg. Classic modern touches, therapeutic shopping and mouth-watering cuisine make this daytime eatery one for your foodie calendar.