Father's Day 2006 |
Cafe Paradiso restaurant, Cape Town, South Africa |
Chelsea, James, Rod, Lynn, Karen, Rob, Vic, Clare, Dad, Marcia |
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For Father's Day 2006 we went to Café Paradiso restaurant at 110 Kloof Street in Cape Town (Karen's great idea). The setting is fantastic, with Table Mountain in the background. It was one of those perfect Cape Town winter's days...no wind and sunny. For starters I had the minestrone soup, which had nice chunky pieces of vegetable in eat, and my main course was Warm Goat's cheese salad - excellent. Dessert was their sorbet - also fantastic. Karen had warm greek lamb salad for a main course, which she described as excellent; for dessert she had vinegar pudding which she found slightly dry, but edible (for me vinegar has no place in a dessert). The only negative was that the waitress struggled to keep up with our party of 9. She got one of the orders wrong and somebody had to wait for about 15 minutes while everybody else was eating their main course, and the desserts arrived half and half with about 10 minutes in between. We did notice that the waitresses managed better with the smaller tables. At the end of the meal brandy was served to the men (it was after all Father's Day) free of charge, which was enjoyed by some (I don't drink alcohol, and neat brandy disagrees with others). All in all I will definitely visit this restaurant again because of the great atmosphere and food. It's possibly best to arrive in smaller numbers (less than 6). Note that you have to pay a 10% tip if you're a party of 6 or more (which explains why they concentrate their good service on the parties with small numbers?).
Telephone: |
+27 21 423 8653 |
Fax: |
+27 21 423 3042 |
Street Address: |
110 Kloof street, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa |
Electronic Mail: |