Private Tour
Cape Town Shore Excursion: Cooking Class with Port Transfers
Overview
Available languages
4 hours
Mobile ticket
Both Gillian and Richard are chefs. Gillian is City and Guilds trained and Richard by experience - designing, building and running their own restaurants. Gillian and Richard are extremely knowledgeable not only about the local cuisine, but also about global cuisine and the local region.
- Discover Cape Town with our shore excursions, from the port to a local home
- South African cooking demonstration in Cape Town in a local home
- Gillian and Richard will teach you to cook two dishes from scratch
- Ultimate in-home dinning experience in the heart of Cape Town
- Share a traditional South African meal with locals in their home, served with wine and dessert
- Your Cape Town shore excursion includes port pick-up and drop off
- A vegetarian meal is available, on request
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
Menu may vary depending on the season
Private, personalized experience
Vegetarian is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Richard and Gillian have a little daschund so guests must be aware that there is a pet in the house.
Your Cape Town Shore Excursion includes a private, cooking demonstration, a glass of local alcohol and port pick-up and drop off.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Travel inland from the port in Cape Town and discover the culture through food, in this South African cooking demonstration in a local home, in Wynberg. We recommend this Cape Town Shore Excursion to cruise travelers, for a true and authentic taste of local cuisine. Join Richard and Gillian in their kitchen for a Cape Town cooking demonstration and learn how to make two of the dishes you will be eating later. Richard and Gillian would love to know your preference before they set the menu and would be happy to teach you dishes you are keen on learning. You will watch as your hosts prepare a prawn and nectarine salad or teach you how to braai delicious rump steak or cook chicken breasts in tomato sauce with a spinach and feta stuffing and a lemon meringue. You can expect your cooking demonstartion to last for 1 hour. Your meal may include traditional bredie (stew), braai (bbq), salad, and will end with traditional desserts such as malva tart (sweet pudding) or lemon meringue or koeksisters (a syrup-coated twisted or braided doughnut).
Sample Menu
starter
Prawn and nectarine salad
main
Braai or chicken breasts in tomato sauce with a spinach and feta stuffing
main
Bredie (stew)
dessert
Any 1
Malva tart (sweet pudding) or lemon meringue or koeksisters (a syrup-coated twisted or braided doughnut).
What‘s Included
Cape Town port pick-up and drop off
Local wine
Private in-home cooking demonstration and meal
Options
Richard (Cruise) - MC+Alc+RTT
Pickup included
Reviews
3 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great chef Great experience
Karyn T,,Nov 4, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Unfortunately I missed this event due to emergency surgery. The rest of our group attended and report a fabulous time with wonderful hosts. Food, beverage and commeradery were all excellent.
Dinner in a Capetown, South Africa Home
Robert C,,Jul 8, 2019
- Review from Viator
5.00If you are interested in a South African food experience this was a great meal. The award however goes to Richard and Gillian who hosted us in their home. Their daughter, Georgia, joined us and the several course meal was fabulous. The conversation and opportunity to get to know this family was the very best part.This dinner, prepared by restaurateurs Richard and Gillian, included a South Africa Sauvignon blanc, a delicious Biltong, leak and sweet potato soup, a Sambal salad, prawns with Peri Peri, a South African meat pie dish called Bobotie which we loved, yellow rice with raisins, and a Malva tart with custard dessert of which you couldn't eat enough. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this and them to anyone. If they are reading this, Thank You, we had a very nice evening!
Making Memories over Dinner
CDNChicago,,May 23, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Jo, Richard and their daughter treated our family to a warm, intimate evening filled with great food, wonderful South African wines pulled from the cellar beneath the kitchen floor and loads of stories, old and new about their decades of living in Cape Town. When they learned upon our arrival that my daughter-in-law had numerous food allergies, Jo went to her freezer, pulled out GF pasta and turned it into a delicious entree without missing a beat in the conversation. It was a delightful surprise to talk with their daughter, who is at the tail end of her high school experience, an experience which is radically different than what my kids had growing up in Chicago. We had never considered the tight security under which Cape Town teens need to live to be safe. It was fascinating to learn about her life. I wish I could tell you the names of the traditional dishes that Richard and Jo cooked for us, but I don't recall them. What I do recall is that everything was delicious and plentiful. It was a memorable dinner in a two week trip that was filled with great dinners.
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