Seafood supper at the Chapman's Peak Hotel

Sunset in the seaside town of Hout Bay

Chapman’s Peak Hotel restaurant is extremely popular with locals and visitors. They don’t do bookings so you need to go early to get a table or be prepared to wait up to an hour for a table but you can sit in the bar and have a drink while waiting. It is worth the wait. In the summer most of the tables are on the terrace which has a good view of the bay and they specialise in sea food with a nod to Portuguese.  It is child friendly and mostly non smoking, although they do have people who are addicted to smoking those electric machines which give off noxious vapours that do affect us non smokers. Banned in Europe and  America, we hope SA follows soon.

A starter of good crumbed calamari rings for our friend from Greece!

Lynne's starter was entitled Prawn Tease – no idea why, but they were good large prawns covered in a sticky sweet chilli sauce. Finger bowls are needed and are supplied

Johns starter of peeled prawns with chorizo sausage slices

This huge platter of seafood just for John included yellowtail, calamari and prawns with crisp chips and was very reasonable at R130

Lynne decided to go with the pork ribs and they were a very good choice, very tender with a good barbecue sauce. She did need help though as this is a huge portion. You get a choice with all the main course dishes being served with rice, chips, salad or vegetables.  Yes, she should have chosen the salad.

Only one of us could manage dessert and it was our visitor Terry, who had a similar plate of seafood for his main course to John's.  Unctuous rich chocolate tart with soft serve ice cream

The sun goes down and the lights come on and we continue to eat the great food

Our really helpful and sweet waitress UCT student Lucia

 

© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2013