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
