Baraza – The Promenade, Victoria Road, Camps Bay. Tel. 021 438 2040
Blues - The Promenade, Victoria Road, Camps Bay. Tel. 021 438 2040
Bungalow: Shop 2A, The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 0007
Cafe Sofia - Shop 15, 1st Floor, The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 3660
Camps Bay Beach Club - Victoria Road, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 430 4444
Caprice - 37 Victoria Road, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 8315
Cape Town Fish Market - 1st Floor, The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 1866
Codfather - 37 The Drive. Tel. 021 438 0782
Col'Cacchio Pizzeria - Izak's Corner - Corner of Camps Bay Drive and The Meadway. Tel. 021 438 2171
Dizzy's Jazz Café - 41 The Drive. Tel. 021 438 2686
Ignite– The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 0882
Karma Beach Lounge - The Promenade, Victoria Road.
Kauai - Izak's Corner - Corner of Camps Bay Drive and The Meadway. Tel. 021 438 4607
Maranello - 4 The Fairway, Camps Bay. Tel. 021 438 7074
Marcel's Frozen Yoghurt - The Promenade, Victoria Road.
Nando's - The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 1915
Ocean Blue - The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 9838
Paranga – Shop 1, The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 0404
Passage to India - The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 4555
Primi Piatti - 18-21 Brighton Court, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 2923
Summerville – The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 3174
Sinnfull Icecream Emporium – Shop 5, The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 3541
The Grand - The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 4253
The Hussar Grill - Shop 2, 108a Camps Bay Drive. Tel. 021 438 0151
The Kove – The Promenade, Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 0004
The Roundhouse Restaurant - On the slopes of Table Mountain overlooking Camps Bay and Clifton. Tel. 021 438 4347
The Sandbar - 31 Victoria Road. Tel. 021 438 8336
Tides, The Bay Hotel - Victoria Road, Camps Bay. Tel. 021 430 4444
Tuscany Beach Restaurant - Holland House, Victoria Road, Camps Bay. Tel. 021 438 1213
Twelve Apostles – Victoria Road, Oudekraal. Tel. 021 437 9000
Vida E Cafe - Izak's Corner - Corner of Camps Bay Drive and The Meadway. Tel. 021 438 4655
Zumo - Promenade Centre, Victoria Road, Camps Bay. Tel. 021 438 0573.
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Extracts from Rossouw’s Restaurants 2007
Anonymously reviewed by diners for food, wine, service and
ambience.
CAMPS BAY RESTAURANTS:
BAYSIDE CAFÉ
Busy, unpretentious family spot for “functional food”
set on the beach road. Inside is up (views) and downstairs,
plain but “clean and breezy” with flat earth colours
and white tables. “Geared to turnover”, the open-plan
kitchen serves a broad spread of favourites to undemanding
palates, with “very good value” specials off-season.
“The grills are your best bet. A popular and reliable
regular, though criticised for not looking clean.
BLUES
Having undergone another revamp to its menu, this "beachside
institution" still struggles to regain its former reputation.
With a superb setting overlooking Camps Bay beach, the interior
is tranquil and comfortable in shades of blue and sand, and
the open kitchen lends a modern touch. The menu, now "modern
Italian" offers seafood dishes (like the "extravaganza"),
many salads and also Italian favourites in the "Latin
Quarter" section. The food is merely adequete, the service
friendly. This legend now suffers from being soulless.
CAPE TOWN FISH MARKET
This is “Americanised” fish-in-every-form diner.
The menu is “conventional”, “overwhelms
with choice” with fish in every form from sushi to platter
combinations; the interior is “noisy”, popular
with families. Service is “quick, not obsequious”,
and the menu curiously features a Customer Care Line.
CODFATHER
Popular informal fresh fish and sushi venue where the “market”
concept is king. Choose your linefish or shellfish and your
side orders from the counter, or take some sushi from the
conveyor (you can sit at the belt). Praise for freshness is
balanced by comments that “all the fish is given the
Cajun treatment” and of the “very tired”
side dishes. Tables are café style, the whole place
is “very informal”, some say “scruffy”,
“not what it used to be”. A covered balcony with
views of the shopping mall and sea beyond.
PARANGA
The feel is island-style meets nightclub at this trendiod
beachside spot, wooden desk under canvas, clean marble tiles
and recessed lighting. Clubby music, splashes of colour from
big flowers and whimsical, colourful art. The tables/seats
are plush (some booths) and “the wine glasses are great!”.
The food is similarly bright, big and showy: visual plating
of modern standards - pastas, seafoods, salads and sushi.
Reviews consistently suggest overpriced - no surprise considering
position.
PRIMI PIATTI
Calls itself “urban energy” and goes for “loud
and brash” tactics, this “precocious” chain
of Italian places is vibrant and colourful, certainly “not
relaxed”, “noisy”. Designed as “deconstructed
construction sites”, the stock sits as décor
with backlighting, the surfaces are hard, the seating cafe-style
and the waiting staff are dressed in orange overalls. The
hard-working menu features mainly pastas, pizza and salads,
ciabatta for lighter meals, specialities on blackboards –
all plates are “big” and the flavours are surprisingly,
“bold and simple”.
SUMMERVILLE
No menus, the concept is “market” – one
meat, one fish. You walk up to the counter and select your
mats and what goes wit it – some enjoy this, others
“don’t want to get up”. The environment
is highly styled and contemporary with its sand, stone, swirls
and textures, “very summery, beachy feel”. A long,
carefully lit bar and deck seating (with sea views) plus inside
tables on split levels. “Good selection of game”,
“well-prepared seafoods” say some, others that
the food is essentially “plain” and not worth
the “hidden”, “fashionable” prices
(the cost of a meal is in the weight).
TIDES
The place has a beach house theme, sand colours, steel and
wicker “light and airy” but also “lacking
atmosphere”, “bland hotel style” with “amazing”
views of the sea. Split level, downstairs area “preferable”
with “relaxing” booth seats. The menu works on
a prix fixe concept, two or three courses, some items carry
a surcharge. Flavours are Mediterranean/continental with seafood
a large part of the menu, but questioned on deftness: “lacking
subtlety”, “big portions, straightforward, sometimes
dull, flavours”. Wines well priced.
TUSCANY BEACH CAFÉ
A brassy, bright, neon-lit patio belies the rather more classical
interior of this beachside Italian. Still it is full of colour:
booth seating, big windows and bright floral images –
this “cramped” venue is cheerfull, cool and better
suited to summer. The menu “tries to many things”,
but patrons do like their way with pizza as well as seafood.
An adjoining bar attracts the post-beach cocktail crowd.
