The Rosemead Bakery Cafe in Yzerfontein is legendary, but it was closed for their holiday when we arrived. However, they opened again midweek, so we were able to take our friends Loraine and Ronnie there for lunch when they visited us for a day. We had done a quick recce of the other restaurants and this offered the best vegetarian options, with the most choice in the area. We have eaten there before and know how good are the bread, patisserie and sandwiches
The actual bakery is front and centre when you walk in and they are always baking something
The sourdough loaves and pastries sell out very quickly, so we popped in the day before to reserve some for the next day
It is nice and spacious, so tables can be far apart to give good social distancing. All the serving staff are masked
Portioning out loaves
The dough looked amazingly alive and mobile
We were shown to the table on the left
The simple menu is on blackboards and you can have breakfast, interesting sandwiches on bakery bread and salads
They don't mind you bringing wine with you, so we had some Groote Post SeaSalter Sauvignon Blanc,
the perfect accompaniment to what we ate
The toasted Cheesy Green sandwich with artichokes, broccoli, Mozzarella, brie, honey and basil pesto
Superb flavours and the bread is phenomenal; soft, spongy and airy, but crisp on the crust for Ronnie
The Fresh Sandwich with chickpeas and avo, the baby leaves and coriander mayo for Loraine
We ordered two toasted sandwiches, the Free Range chicken with parmesan, mayo and lettuce below
and the Green sandwich with the bacon option. We shared each toasted sandwich; they are delicious and huge
Dessert, back at our accommodation at Swept Away, was a very authentic Pastei de Nata each
And we had ordered two buttery Almond 'Snails' for our breakfast the next morning, as we had an early start
They were very good too
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