Garden Route Restaurants

Indulge your fantasies and your senses at this sparkling Moroccan-style dining and leisure space. It’s always playtime in this exotic North African baroque eatery. The décor and cuisine is fun and fanciful from the mosaic chameleon to Gaudi-style lizard lazing off the pool, and colourful cocktails to tagines, dates and Turkish delight...from candelabra to mellow hubbly bubbly pipes. Need to know? Cuisine style is North African/Moroccan, 6 courses are served feasting style. Cost: Dinner is R300.00 pp excl. drinks and gratuity. Open for dinner Monday to Saturday from November to April.

This authentic African café embraces culture and warmth with delectable meals and traditional hospitality. Offering an array of delights alongside hearty traditional cuisine, Emqolweni Kamama Café tempts the palate with loveliness. Enjoy a relaxing traditional meal while kids have fun in the play park before setting off to experience the culture and hospitality of the traditional Songoma followed by a refreshing Mqomboti (traditional beer) before being swept away by the enigmatic soul of the traditional dancers. Emqolweni Kamama Café is cultural retreat filled with traditional surprises for a truly inspiring dining experience.

Wander through a souq of spices and exotically heady aromas. This adventure will take you through the Savannas of the South, along the Coasts of the East, across the Deserts of the North and into the Jungles of the West on a gastronomic journey. Your taste buds will be tempted with the sweet scent of coriander and fresh aroma of rose petals; cumin, paprika and saffron spice. Moyo offers a diverse and eclectic a la carte menu and an abundant communal set menu to inspire you to explore the sophistication of African cuisine - your invitation to the feast. A feast set to the rhythm of the music Moyo Productions searches Africa for the best of local, international and new talent. Colorful costumes, dramatic acts and the fancy footwork of dancers will ensure that each guest leaves the restaurant surprised and delighted. Through praise poetry and story telling we move to a broader understanding of African celebration, rights, rituals and memories. With a song on the lips of the Wishy-washy Ladies you will be welcomed to the age old tradition of the African hand-washing and face painting ceremony.

Rated by local restaurant guides with a prestigious award from Diners Club Wine Awards, Rioja serves up international courses infused with local dishes for a truly alluring take on African dining. Owners and chef, Simon and Ceri’s extensive training and experience abroad inspired mouth-watering creations that delight and entice the palate. With special emphasis placed on using only the freshest and local produced ingredients, nothing is more personal than the aromatic taste of freshly picked vegetables from the chefs’ personal garden and chickens from the free-range enclosure. Enjoy dinner, lunch and a new introduction on breakfast with family and friends in the tranquil surrounds of Solole Private Game Reserve with activities and jungle gyms at hand to give much need parents time to savour and enjoy the culinary delights prepared by acclaimed chefs at Rioja.

A feast for the senses brimming with colour and unusual flavours sets off a memorable dining experience coupled with a trendy thatched interior dressed in the red and oranges of African plains cradled by warmth and hospitality. Enjoy the colourful and distinctive sounds of African music while indulging in starters of calamari succulently cooked in Cajun spices with rice and lemon butter or a portion of spicy prawns & litchi salad dressed in Roquefort cheese, litchis, rocket, origanum and assorted roasted seeds with poppadum and sweet chilli dressing. If something more substantial suites your taste, indulge in a mouth-watering 3 sauce fillet perfectly spiced and served with a blue cheese & walnut sauce, cognac & pepper sauce & a chilli chocolate sauce with veggies and potato wedges or mash. Take delight marvelling at the African treasures on display while indulging on decadent dune wedge melted chocolate fudge and shortbread with ice cream. The Girls Restaurant will enrobe the taste buds on a culinary journey in a warm and cosy setting that embraces true African hospitability.

Drawn from the cradle of Africa, dressed in earthy tones and bare metals, Zinzi inspires a textured canvas painted in worn leather, soft suede’s, luscious velvets and hand painted fabrics touched by colourful lizard prints. Evoking relaxation and opulence with handcrafted oversized furniture, low tables and lazy ottomans scattered with cushions, Zinzi pampers the senses with elegance and beautifully crafted dishes complimented by unique designed cutlery and thoughtfully catered ambience. Indulge in an imaginative dining experience embraced by the spirit of Africa with honest cuisine and zesty ingredients spilling off the Ala Carte menu for a truly magical African forest dining experience.