South Africa - Part 1

The really unexpected thing about South Africa was the food. I really didn’t expect it to be so consistently good – I don’t think that we had a bad meal the whole time we were there – and such good value.

There were two exceptional meals that we had whilst we were there. The first was when a group of six of us went to the Codfather in Camps Bay, Cape Town. You sit down in the quite bare room, wooden floors, no table cloths, and are given a wine list but no menu. The waiter then comes and explains the way the restaurant works. There is a sushi carousel, and then a huge fresh fish and seafood counter. The waiter walked us along the fish counter, telling us what everything was, with extra explanations where we didn’t recognise the particular fish.
After a lot of deliberation (and being distracted by the bride-to-be that we were all there to see get married) I finally went for half a dozen oysters to start, followed by a piece of blue marlin and three tiger prawns. R also started with oysters (cue lots of jokes about what we were going to get up to that night), and then had langoustine. It was all beautifully cooked, with sauces put down the middle of the table so you could pick and choose. It wasn’t cheap, but the quality was exceptional, and fish always tastes better when you can see and hear the sea!