Il Cappero pictures

The daily specials

Lynne examining the menu

raw fresh local longfin tuna prepared in large chunks in a timbale with pine nuts and a Balsamic reduction

Soufflé de Melanzane, a beautiful aubergine mousse rather than a soufflé, with thyme, parsley, pine nuts and cheese

Ricci di Mare (sea urchins). Such huge flavours of the sea, it was in a pale orange sauce that looked almost like a caviar or Bottarga, a preserved fish roe, also from Sicily. The accompanying pasta was a home-made linguine and it was perfect

Involtini di Vitello alla Siciliana, several small tender rolls of veal, stuffed with pine nuts, raisins, onions and bay leaves and served with vegetables

Lynne and Aldo

Gaaitjie restaurant, Paternoster

Arriving at Gaaitjie

Gaaitjie restaurant building

Boat as signage

Table by the window

and one by the door

Potbread presentation

The menu

Angelfish, flaked in a tomato & grapemust sauce, loosely sandwiched between layers of hand made pasta, doused with wine butter, and topped with grilled baby marrows  R115

Pan-fried sole with a crayfish bisque sauce, steamed potatoes and greens   R135

Altydgedacht "The Ollo", a good choice

The herb garden

Groote Post, in the hills near Darling

We met a herd of eland at the gate

The old manor house, now the restaurant

The wine cellar

Tasting room

The tasting room robin

Abalone House, Paternoster

The restaurant

The Bar

Conservatory

The pool in the courtyard

Upstairs rooms

View to the sea

Our room

Bathroom

King William

Christmas & Thanksgiving

Cake for tea

Scones and other treats

Dinner tasting menu

Lynne at the table

Dinner for two

Autumn vegetable salad, goats cheese mousse, tomato fondue

It was worse than it looks

Redemption: an excellent breakfast:

French toast with bacon, banana and syrup

Dumplings at Dynasty, Bliss at the Breede and Heavenly fish in Hermanus

Clare and waitress Shirley with dumplings

Alex, the Dynasty sushi chef

Fresh bread and mature cheese with Bavaria draught

Cape Infanta

Steep stairs down to the Infanta beach

The remains of "SS Kadie", a 158 ton steamer,

which was wrecked entering the Breede River Mouth in 1864 - with a dead tree

The beach at Infanta

Lynne with a stone axe

Wild windy waves

The Breede River estuary at Infanta

The Breede at Malgas

Malgas

Blue cranes near Stanford

Bluenose and Chips

Our super, friendly and efficient waitress

Hermanus new harbour, from Harbour Rock restaurant