Originally Posted by
ijgordon
Bo Kaap Kombuis was a very good Cape Malay meal with very hospitable service with fantastic views high up in Bo Kaap overlooking Table mountain.
Went there last Friday and would heartily NOT recommend it. Yes, the view is good but the atmosphere is dead and the menu is way too long for the sparse number of patrons, so the food, while fundamentally well-made - excellent Denningvleis - is not cooked fresh but is precooked, stored and reheated. What this means is rapidly refried samoosas arriving within two minutes of ordering, followed a few minutes later by the farce of my main dish arriving from the microwave lukewarm without and stone cold within and having to go back for a reheat. Sosotie chops were OK but mean on the meat. While most dishes tried, in their reincarnated life, to show evidence of accomplished cookery, bhajis were stodgy, Bobotie was 'off' (at a Cape Malay restaurant!!) and their Malva pudding was like school sponge 'n' custard rather than the delight it should be. We were in and out in 75 minutes.
Really, don't bother.