Cape Town City Foodie Tour

Taste the best that Cape Town has to offer in this 8-hour-long food tour. Start your day with a trip to a popular artisanal coffee roaster. Then move on to Honest Chocolate, the ultimate maker of quality chocolates made using the finest, sustainably grown, raw, organic Ecuadorian cacao. Get the chance to know more about their products. You can also treat yourself with a 95% cacao chocolate bar wrapped in their signature, illustrated wrappers.

Time to try some traditional local food. Travel to Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants, an ultimate foodie destination known for its tasty biltongs and droëwors, and taste some of their delicious cured meat products along with fine South African wine.

Head for Bo-Kaap & Atlas Spice Trading Company, located in the Cape Malay quarter and renowned for its spices. Established in 1946, the spice trading company is a purveyor of fine spices, rice and rare products from across the world. Enjoy the pungent smell of over 100 different herbs, spices and incenses in their store. You have the option of choose some spices in their store that you can then take home to cook.

Its time to snack on some delicious Cape Malay food now. Try samosas: small, triangular, folded pastries with different fillings (mince beef, chicken, cheese, etc). Koeksister is another popular Cape Malay food prepared from fried dough rolls dipped in an ice cold syrup. You can get them in many shapes and sizes, from braided, twisted koeksisters to koeksisters in the form of small dough balls topped with coconut. Milk tart is yet another South African dessert that has a sweet crust filled with a creamy mixture made of milk, eggs, sugar and flour topped with cinnamon – an essential taste of South Africa.

End your tour at The Gin Bar, where you can try three, hand-crafted South African gins representing the vast flavour profiles of South African botanicals. Each gin is explained and tasted on its own before it is paired with a tonic and finished off with a unique, fynbos garnish, foraged by the bartenders themselves. You can enjoy our drop-off service to your hotel at the end of the tour.