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The 60-seater !Khwa ttu restaurant is located in the splendidly restored original farmhouse on top of one of the numerous hills marking the landscape. Adjacent to the restaurant lies a tea garden with a view that extends up and far over the Atlantic Ocean. The tea garden and restaurant are open from 9h00 to 17h00 on Tuesdays to Sundays. The restaurant also opens its doors for special functions in the evenings.
An effective team consisting of a professional Swiss chef and San trainees run the kitchen and restaurant. The menu offers light, hearty and creative dishes, which are spiced up with freshly picked herbs from the !Khwa ttu garden. The team focuses on fresh products, which manifest themselves in permanently available home-made bread and cakes, imaginative deserts and astonishing main courses. At the weekends the team prepares specially arranged three-course menus, which either can be ordered as a whole for only Rand 95 or single courses can be chosen. Meals can be complemented with both a variety of well-flavoured wines from the famous vineyards of the Darling area and a refreshing soft drink creation of the day.
The menu of the !Khwa ttu restaurant, which provides dishes for every taste can be viewed at the website: www.khwattu.org/tourist_restaurant.asp
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| Bistro Seven |
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7 Main Road, Darling, 7345 |
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“This neat little bistro, housed in a lovely old cottage, is right on Darling’s main street. There are tables and chairs in the small garden to take advantage of the passing parade. Inside, tables are laid with crisp, blue checked cloths and there is a cosy bar for a pre-dinner aperitif or for lingering afterwards. Cuisine is country comfort with great soups, steaks, crisp fresh salads, and the occasional nod to boerekos. Small but good wine list.” - EAT OUT Magazine 2007 |
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Dinner from 18:30 onwards:
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Lunches 12:30 - 15:00:
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Sun evenings: Dinner until 20:30
Closed all day Tuesdays. |
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| Buffelsfontein Game Nature Reserve |
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(R27) West Coast Road, Darling, 7345 |
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Buffelsfontein offers a wide range of excellent country and continental foods.
The restaurant is open daily from 08h00-17h00 (except the first Sunday of each month). After 17h00 the restaurant stays open for groups larger than 10 (bookings are essential).
We also have buffets for groups larger than 10 (bookings are essential)
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| Café Mosaic |
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Café Mosaic is a unique South African mixture of the French Café de la Rue, the Dutch Coffee Bar, the German Strasse Kaffe and the English Pub: a family orientated rendezvous in the Main Road of Darling. Here visitors and newcomers can meet the locals and learn everything about Darling they need to know.
Coffee and cake, calamari and chips, lasagne and salads and home made pies are served with an assortment of beverages ranging from soft drinks to hard tack. A menu with light meals and snacks is available
This is the locals’ watering hole after work, the place where rugby, soccer and cricket games are viewed and a safe venue where fathers and mothers can teach their offspring how to play pool. Business hours are from 9h00 in the morning till late at night.
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Contact Liezel or Beyers at tel.no. to book groups or order take-aways. |
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| Chicory Cheese Café |
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Darling's new, chic restaurant, Chicory Cheese Café, is about feeling good, enjoying life and establishing a foundation for healthy eating.
Catering for the intolerant to the indulgent, its intuitive, seasonal menu means meals are freshly cooked, juices freshly squeezed, coffee freshly ground and the service refreshingly friendly.
Join Chicory Cheese Café in sharing the love of good food. A treat for your stomach and your soul.
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Monday to Friday:
08h00 to 17h00
Saturday & Public Holidays:
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Sunday – Closed
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| Cloof |
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Cloof produces intense, bold-flavoured wines from grapes grown under extreme conditions. Among its products are a Decanter 5 Star Award winner, a Champion Shiraz and numerous airline selections. The estate welcomes visitors for wine tasting (Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 16:00) and light lunches (Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 to 15:00). Details may be found on the Cloof website.
The estate also offers a superb venue for weddings and other functions.
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Mon–Sat: 10h00 until 16h00 |
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During a 9 month road trip through Africa, owners Kevin and Philippa stumbled across the idea of micro breweries and instantly knew that Darling would be the perfect home for one. The initial ideas they came home with in May 2008 have grown in leaps and bounds and finally in March 2010 Darling Brew was born. The project has already developed to such a degree that various processes are having to be outsourced in order to meet demands but Darling will always be its home.
The Darling Brew design was inspired by the geometric tortoise, which is found only in the Western Cape and the Kalahari and is extremely rare. This tortoise captures the uniqueness and the unhurried character that is Darling Brew.
The beer is crisp and light (4% alcohol), with roasted aromas, is natural (preservative free) and has a 4 and a half week brewing time. Currently the brewery is focusing on supplying draught and bottled beers to restaurants in Darling and the West Coast Region. The response to our SLOW BEER has been quite overwhelming, but don't take our word for it, get to Darling and try it!
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Currently available at Darling's Marmalade Cat, Vyge Valley Farm Stall, Evita se Perron and Groote Post, Riebeek Kasteel's Auntie Pasti, Paternoster's Voorstrand, Blouberg's Carluccis and Stellenbosch's Slow Food Market. |
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| Darling Olives |
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Darling Olives is located just 3 km out of Darling towards Yzerfontein, nestled amidst vineyards, grazing cattle and olive groves.
Our 70 hectares of olives are all dry land and grown on the Alexanderfontein Estate. They get processed within 24 hours of picking, resulting in a superior product.
Farm bread is baked daily in a wood burned oven. Enjoy a picnic on the farm amongst wild flowers with our bread, olive jams, olive marmalade, Labneh cheese, olives and olive paste in the springtime. For desert you can sample our olive chocolate! During the winter months we always have fire burning in our tasting rooms to shake off the cold while enjoying an informative tasting.
Harvest time is April to June when you can experience the olive oil process with a guided tour through our olive press.
Experience a traditional approach to olives on a working farm where cattle are still herded by horse and a flock of sheep might cross your path. Darling Olives is a great place to start your education about how olives are grown, pressed and cured.
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Tannie Evita's Pantry opens 10h00 - 17h00 from Tuesday to Sunday for breakfast and lunch, serving traditional South African fare. Dinner is served when there are shows or for pre-booked functions. This venue combines the restaurant-bar with cabaret and 90 people can be comfortably seated. |
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This restaurant is situated in the historic manor at Groote Post Wine Estate on the Darling Hills Road and serves modern country cuisine. Hilda’s Kitchen was selected best new restaurant – West Coast '2004 Eat Out' restaurant awards. The perfect functions venue, ideally situated for weddings, conferences and parties. |
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Over flower-covered hills and red dirt roads surrounding Darling lies Kraalbosdam. This historic farm, in existence since 1832, has been restored to its original glory by the creative couple Barry & Anet Burger.
The old “waenhuis” has been transformed into the KRAALBOSDAM RESTAURANT & VENUE which can comfortably accommodate 150 guests. The old stables has been converted into a little church complete with a “traporrel”, candles and stained glass windows that give a unique old worldly setting.
We specialise in presenting a complete package for weddings: from flowers to décor to delicious country cuisine and of course the finest wines. We also strive to accommodate any function or business conference and will tend to your every need.
During flower season it is a delight to wander into the Klipberg mountain to admire the wide variety of flowers and fynbos unique to the farm. The historic Hildebrandt Monument, which is where the most Southern Anglo Boer War battle took place in South Africa, is also situated on the farm.
We look forward to meeting you and you are more than welcome to contact us or come out and visit us to have a Kraalbosdam experience.
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Being a unique and trendy hotspot for locals and tourists alike, the Marmalade Cat, is everything its names suggests! The small marmalade-coloured building is easy to spot on Darling’s main road and as one walks past bougainvilleas to enter the yellow, white and blue polka-dotted shop, one is greeted by smiling faces, freshly baked scents and a kaleidoscope of gifts and collectables individually selected by the owner, Sandi Collins.
The Marmalade Cat is the perfect place for a bustling atmosphere, freshly prepared, flavour-filled breakfasts, lunches, morning and afternoon teas. Specialties such as the fluffy bacon and feta omelets for breakfast, or the designer chicken pies will have you desperate to return for more! The Marmalade Cat is also open on Friday nights for their famous pizzas, which include a complementary salad to start and an atmosphere that is sure to have you dancing by the end of the night. The Marmalade Cat is also the perfect place for birthday or business functions, which must be booked in advance.
So with its flower and fountain filled courtyard, good-mood music, delicious food, treasured gifts and a real-life marmalade cat to top it all off, you’re likely to have a spring in your step for the rest of the day.
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Shaun and Debbie McLaughlin's beautifully renovated Victorian homestead is in the peaceful country town of Darling, only a 45 minute drive from Cape Town.
The lodge affords you comfortable, private accommodation in one of four double en-suite bedrooms, each tastefully furnished with hand-embroidered linen and goose-down duvets.
Modern country cuisine is served in the restaurant or on the patio overlooking the swimming pool under an old Oak tree. Trinity Lodge is the perfect functions venue, ideally suited for weddings and parties.
Come and experience for yourself the wonderful wines from the Darling area at a series of wine tastings and gourmet dinners held periodically throughout the year. Wine tastings usually hosted by the wine makers or owners of the labels and will be followed by a four course dinner with specially selected wines to complement the menu.
Please contact us for dates and details of these special evenings.
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Vyge Valley Farm Stall is situated opposite Jakkalsfontein on the R27 West Coast road. With inspirational drive from the new owners, this hidden jewel has blossomed over the past year into much more than just a farmstall.
The saying goes: "First impressions count" and Vyge Valley definitely makes a lasting impression. It begins with the smell of home baked farm bread that greets you as you step from your car. If you follow your nose you’ll also discover rows of freshly baked milktarts inside the shop which is filled with a variety of homemade jams, sauces and preserves as well as artwork by West Coast artists, to name a just few items.
There is a restaurant with a menu filled with choices for every conceivable taste sensation that you may have in mind, but the farmstyle breakfast which will make you long for your grandma is by far the most popular choice. Children are entertained with a playpark and a farmyard of goats, piglets, rabbits, ducks, chickens and much more.
Another of the new developments is a nursery where you will find a variety of trees, plants, pebbles and pots at giveaway West Coast prices. The farm garage is an attraction on it’s own. Several advertising agencies have already taken breathtaking shots of the garage for use in their advertising campaigns.
A farmstall in the West coast would not be complete without a wineshop. The Vyge Valley wine shop is more along the lines of a wine boutique with shelves full of choices from the region’s best cellars. There are wines from Groote Post, Swartland, Cloof, Darling, Riebeek Cellars and Org de Rac amongst others - all at surprisingly affordable prices.
The farmstall opens at 8h00 in the morning and closes at 18h00 in the evening. Our popular breakfast is available throughout the day, so come anytime. The restaurant is fuilly licensed for those who may be thirsty. Group bookings are more than welcome.
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