Wining & Dining
Food is such an enjoyable part of being on holiday and we serve a taste bud-tingling breakfast here at Cliff Lodge. We also have some favourite restaurants that we recommend to our guests for lunch and dinner, some of these on excellent wine farms in the area. Here’s a list of some of our preferred restaurants and wine farms in De Kelders, Gansbaai, Stanford and the Overberg region.
Eating Out
DE KELDERS
Kloeks @ Home
Friendly and intimate Kloeks @ Home is within walking distance of Cliff Lodge, and offers a blackboard menu, with a varying selection of seasonal fare. A few of our guests claim to have enjoyed the best steak they’ve ever eaten at Kloeks – we have no doubt! Kloeks is also well supplied with sea food from the fishing boats of Gansbaai. We recommend Kloeks to our guests because they focus on perfecting a few dishes, as opposed to a menu groaning under the weight of too much choice – plus they have loads of style and charm. The restaurant doesn’t have a liquor licence, so our guests take their favourite wine or drink along with them.
Physical address: 78 De Villiers De Kelders
Dinner: Monday to Sunday: Bookings essential through Cliff Lodge
Gansbaai
SCHNEIDER'S CAPE FLORAL KITCHEN
Schneider’s Cape Floral Kitchen, in Gansbaai offers a slow-food menu using ingredients sourced from farms in the area and other local produce. Chef Jürgen Schneider holds a Michelin star and with his wife Susan they ran a successful restaurant in Germany. Now, having moved their lives to South Africa, they have established Schneider’s Cape Floral Kitchen as a gastronomic destination with Michelin star quality. Jürgen loves foraging for food from nature, and here in the Overberg he has a variety of local plants on his doorstep, which he uses as ingredients.
Address: 13 Main Road, Gansbaai
Phone: 0820880307
Opening Hours: Open Wednesday to Saturday for dinner, and Sunday for lunch.
Blue Goose Restaurant
Blue Goose restaurant in Gansbaai serves fresh, locally sourced seafood, South African beef and lamb and unique regional wines in a friendly, stylish atmosphere. Set in an amazing old Gansbaai building that has been beautifully renovated, this elegant restaurant is a local favourite.
Phone: 0718631514
Physical: 22 Hoop St, Gansbaai
Opening times: Monday to Sunday 6.00pm – close
The Great White House
The Great White House is in Kleinbaai, 5km outside of Gansbaai. The restaurant specialises in dishes made with fresh, locally-sourced ingredients and has a selection of local wines. The menu is varied and interesting with a good selection of sea food and vegetarians are well catered for.
Phone: (028) 384 3273
Physical address: 5 Geelbek Street, Kleinbaai
Opening times: Monday to Sunday, lunch and dinner
Coffee on the Rocks
Coffee on the Rocks, as the name suggests, is a café restaurant perched on the rocks at De Kelders, overlooking Walker Bay. Gayle serves lunch, light meals and delicious cakes. Everything is fresh and there are blackboard specials every day. Comfortable and casual, with friendly service and a fantastic view.
Phone: 028 384 2017
Physical address: 81 Cliff Street, De Kelders
Opening times: Wednesday to Sunday for lunch
Stanford
The Manor House Restaurant
The Manor House Restaurant at Stanford Valley serves delicious lunches and dinners in a beautiful setting overlooking the breath-taking Stanford mountains. The food is modern bistro soul food, and the service is always friendly and warm. The Manor House is one of our favourite places for lunch.
Phone: 0721980862
Physical address: 10km outside of Stanford on the R326
Opening hours: Thursday – Saturday 8am – 10pm; Sunday 8am – 4pm.
La trattoria
La Trattoria is a charming, family run Italian restaurant in the village of Stanford where our guests enjoy warm hospitality and authentic Italian food.
Phone: 0818057470
Physical address: 23 Queen Victoria Street, Stanford
Opening hours: 6:30 – close. Closed on Tuesday.
Stanford Kitchen
Stanford Kitchen is a small, friendly eatery in the heart of Stanford. Loved by locals and visitors alike, the handcrafted pizzas and excellent burgers are among our favourite dishes on their menu.
Phone: 079 975 6211
Physical address: 19 Queen Victoria Street, Stanford
Opening times: Daily for lunch and dinner. Last orders at 20:00
Wine Farms
Agulhas Wine Area
Lomond Wine Farm
Lomond Wine Farm is situated on The Agulhas Plain, 10km from Gansbaai.
The maritime climate with the resulting cooling sea breezes ensures that the vineyards are kept cool, which results in late ripening intense fruit. This unique combination of geography, geology and climate results in terroir that is perfect for producing world-class wine.
The tasting room is beside a lake and they serve lovely platters along with their excellent wines.
Phone: (028) 388 0095
Physical address: Avoca Road, Gansbaai
Opening times: Daily
The Black Oystercatcher Wine Estate
The Black Oyster Catcher is a boutique, family-run wine estate, off the beaten track along the Elim road. A favourite stop on the way to Cape Agulhas.
Phone: 028 482 1618
Physical Address: Moddervlei Farm, Elim
Email: venue@blackoystercatcher.co.za
Opening hours: Open 6 days a week (closed Mondays).
Stanford Wine Area
Raka Wines
Raka Wines is 17 kilometres from Stanford nestled in the Kleinrivier Mountains and its slopes provide a variety of aspects and soil types to produce a wide range of award-winning wines to sample at their cellar. They are open for wine tasting on weekdays. Make sure you taste the award-winning Biography Shiraz, one of our favourites.
Phone: 028 341 0676
Physical address: R326 Stanford
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm
Stanford Hills Estate
The Stanford Hills Estate is a relaxed and informal family run estate and all grapes used are produced on the farm and picked by hand. Wine tasting is offered at The Tasting Room, which is open seven days a week, and this memorable tasting experience includes some award winning wines such as their Pinotage, and a range of varietals.
Phone: 072 639 6135
Physical address: Weltevrede Farm, Stanford
Opening times: Daily
Hermanus Wine Area
The Hermanus Wine Route is a five-minute drive from the centre of Hermanus and threads its way along the R320 in the aptly named Hemel-en-Aarde Valley (Heaven-and-Earth Valley). The valley is protected from the sea breezes but benefits from the moist air and plentiful sunshine, making it seem like a little slice of ‘heaven’.
There are 15 good wine farms, starting with Hermanuspietersfontein, winding past top-rated Bouchard Finlayson and Hamilton Russell, and ending in a cluster that includes Ataraxia, Creation Wines and Domaine des Dieux. You can enjoy great wine-tasting at the estates, and some estates also arrange superb food-and-wine pairings, where you can explore how different flavours enhance each other. Creation Wines has our favourite unusual pairings: chocolate and wine pairing, a small plate pairing, and even a non-alcoholic tea and food pairing.
We love the laid back, friendly welcome that these wine farms in Hermanus offer our guests.
