Part 4 - STELLENBOSCH, 18-23 Dec 18
Good morning, Adriaan - on time as usual! F’hoek to S’bosch is a simple and quick journey, without any impressive scenery … just mile after mile of vineyards, which is totally excusable in this context!
Back again to the
Eendracht Hotel … a nice and clean Guest House right on the edge of the heart of town, if you see what I mean!
Yes, Room 8 with the small balcony as before, please!
Not quite ready yet, so a gentle wander some 25 yards across the street to
“Steam” for a pre-lunch drink, before making our way to the S’Bosch Kitchen just 100 yards down the street for exquisite Prawn Risotto. You can already see why we like the Eendracht - very conveniently located for life’s little essentials!
Steam became our regular haunt, being so close. A drink and a snack at mid-day, or pre-dinner drinks before eating elsewhere, fitted the bill perfectly. And the staff are absolutely delightful - friendly and efficient. They do a very nice Bombay & Tonic too, loaded with juniper berries of course! And some nice snacks! On one occasion we managed a lunch-time meet up with
The_Bouncer who was having a day-trip out of Cape Town - we had previously ‘met’ on the Smoking Lounge forum on FT
Otherwise our eating out alternated between our 2 favourite restaurants in S’bosch …
The Stellenbosh Kitchen
and
Oppie Dorp
Both are highly recommended. Excellent food and wine at sensible prices, and as we found everywhere with friendly and helpful staff. The only problem is going to be shedding the weight we both put on during the whole trip!
Sharing Platter of assorted meats - Kudu, Springbok, Duck, Crocodile and Ostrich, IIRC.
Sharing Platter of Seafood
And some other more conventional stuff, including our first taste of Bobotie at a small restaurant (
Dora’s) across the road from Steam.
Curiously, everywhere we went the front of house staff were not South Africans, but predominantly from Zimbabwe or Malawi. Eventually we discussed this phenomenon with a few servers - they said that the local people don’t like the working hours, and tend to lack the personality for the job. I’ll have to take that as gospel, having heard the same several times at different places.
And, with S’bosch being so tidy and compact, we wandered the shops and the Botanical Garden [the latter part of S’bosch University] …
And then it was almost over
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