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| Restaurants that combine the best in flavorsome and fresh local produce with the vibrant cosmopolitan and eclectic atmosphere can be classified as the best Cape Town restaurants. Known particularly for its 'just caught' seafood, its locally grown, juicy fruit produce, and of course the famous 'winelands' extensive range of superb wines, Cape Town is a city that is ready and prepared to provide some of the most exquisite meals available to the tourist's eager palate.
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Cape Town is a city blessed with a climate similar to but somewhat milder than Mediterranean cities such as Greece and Italy. With warm summer days, and a crisp, refreshing air, this city offers up restaurants that take best advantage of weather and provide the ultimate in outdoor dining. Some of the best Cape Town restaurants are those that maximize on the outdoor lifestyle of South Africans, offering this lifestyle to any visitors to the city too.
With thriving communities of black, white, Indian and mixed race inhabitants, Cape Town benefits from the interaction of these constituencies, offering some of the most fascination cocktails of culture and cuisine. It is the restaurants which capitalize on this eclectic nature of the city, that provide local residents and travelers alike, an experience along with an excellently prepared meal.
Located on the Atlantic coast, with the overwhelming Table Mountain cupping it in its hands, Cape Town is a city surrounded by natural beauty. The best Cape Town restaurants may be situated on the water’s edge in the celebrity frequented Camps Bay, in the midst of the city on the famous and vibrant Long Street, or at the foot of the mountain. All of them masterfully make the most of their characteristic environments and use these to create the perfect ambience mixed with the finest cuisine.
The beach or dockside restaurants are obviously your first choice for seafood. With the fish literally being cooked and served straight off the hook, you cannot find seafood of much better quality anywhere in the world. From mouth-watering mussels, to possibly the largest lobsters you have ever laid your eyes on, restaurants such as the Fish Market and Blues restaurant offer the finest cuisine from the finest viewpoints overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Apart from seafood, most of the restaurants that take advantage of the outdoor dining experience take great pleasure in serving food cooked to perfection on the flame grill. Creating mouth wetting aromas for the guests to appreciate, these grills are the cosmopolitan, commercial equivalent of the traditional South African "braai", more widely known in the world as a barbeque. With meat cuts in South Africa being of outstanding quality, both seafood and meat are prepared on these grills, creating gastronomically marvelous meals that could woo even the fussiest of diners.
For dining that is a little trendier, the best place to find yourself is on Long street. Here the chic and sophisticated mingle with the hip and stylish, ensuring a multi ethnic experience that is fresh and exciting. The restaurants that you find along this lively and colorful street, which displays Victorian architecture from the cities earlier day, mix the old-fashioned ambience with modern day chic to create a dining experience that assaults and awakens the senses.
These restaurants provide more cafe and bistro style eateries, with doors that open out on the bustling street. The most famous is indeed Long Street Cafe, with its bistro menu that provides for all tastes throughout the day.
Of course in talking of the finest restaurants, one cannot ignore the winelands that fall just beyond the edges of the city. A short drive away, wine estates provide tastings and delectable meals in their beautifully decked out restaurants. However for a sample of these wines a little closer to town, the city boasts a number of wine bars with restaurants that allow you to select your meal based on your wine of choice.
These intimate venues team wine with gastronomic delights, so that the full flavors of the wines can be indulged. With interiors decorated with warm earthy tones, and natural surfaces, these restaurants inspire a feeling of being in the wine cellar itself amidst the caskets and age-old wines.
From that little cafe offering locally produced cheeses, to a trendy wine bar and restaurant which looks out over the whole of Camps bay, there is something special to suit every taste. These restaurants are those that not only provide the most delicious meals, but those that capture the heart of the city in their ambience and atmosphere.
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