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TASTE SOMETHING NEW

Learn to cook your way around the world

By Stir Crazy Cooking School

One week you're folding dim sum, another you're rolling sushi, making fresh pasta or getting to grips with the spices of Cape Malay cooking. Stir Crazy's hands-on classes are built…

Cape Town

Take your sweet tooth on a tasting flight

By Revved Up Café

Revved Up isn't really on this list because it's a café. It's here because someone had the excellent idea of turning café treats into tasting flights.

The concept started with hot…

Cape Town CBD — 112 Buitengracht Street

Taste your way through Cape Town's Little Mogadishu

By Unexplored Cape Town

You don't need a plane ticket to travel through East Africa — just head north to Bellville. Unexplored Cape Town's Little Mogadishu Food Tour takes you through a part of the city s…

Bellville

Cook dinner with a bunch of strangers

By Food Jams

This isn't a cooking class where you stand quietly watching someone else julienne a carrot. Food Jams turns cooking into a social event: music on, aprons on, everyone chopping, sti…

Salt River / Woodstock

Take your dog for breakfast at Groot Constantia

By Simon's Restaurant at Groot Constantia

Take your four-legged best friend on a little wine-estate outing. Enjoy the beautiful surroundings of historic Groot Constantia before settling in for breakfast or coffee at Simon'…

Constantia

Have lunch inside Pollsmoor Prison

By Pollsmoor Restaurant – Idlanathi

Go through the gates of Pollsmoor for one of Cape Town’s most unusual lunches, where low-risk inmates nearing release cook and serve remarkably inexpensive canteen food as part of…

Tokai / Pollsmoor

Taste Your Way Through Makers Landing

By Makers Landing

Come hungry and curious. Tucked beside Cape Town's working harbour, Makers Landing is a playground for food lovers, where some of the city's most exciting culinary entrepreneurs ar…

V&A Waterfront

Distil your own gin

By Unit43 Distilling Co

Ever wondered what goes into creating a really good gin? At Unit43 Distilling Co., you can become a gin maker for the day. Guided by master distiller Jason, explore the fascinating…

Cape Town

Create Your Own Gin in a Vintage Sidecar Workshop

By Sidecar Spirits

What do vintage motorcycles and gin have in common? Quite a lot, apparently. Hidden inside a wonderfully quirky sidecar motorcycle depot in Woodstock, Sidecar Spirits invites you t…

Woodstock

Taste wine in a tunnel under the M3

By Constantia Royale

Wine tasting beneath one of Cape Town's busiest roads? Hidden below the M3 in Constantia is one of the city's more unexpected places to enjoy a glass of wine. Buitenverwachting's t…

Constantia

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