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  • Here’s The Eat Out Restaurant List For ‘Non-Whites’

    19 Jan 2015 by Jasmine Stone in Cape Town, Culture, Food, Opinion, Politics, South Africa
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    Oi vey. This whole racist restaurant thing in Cape Town is getting a bit out of hand. I eat out a heck of a lot (I have often contemplated removing my kitchen and just adding in a ping pong table instead) and I can’t say I have ever noticed a rude attitude to patrons of colour in our city. Yes, I have had bad service, and I have had crappy food and rude waiters and managers who do not give a flying f^$%, but never have I seen any race related instances.

    With the amount of restaurants and patrons out there, negative things are bound to happen. That’s life.

    With regards to that whole 12 Apostles debacle – I spent a fair amount of time at the hotel in December, and happily watched families of all races lolling by the pools and laughing as their kids played. No one was denied food or towels or sun loungers or service.

    Anyway. Eat Out magazine’s Best Restaurants in Cape Town for 2015 was revealed recently, and it seems only a few them (according to Sarita Ranchod, a columnist for City Press) are “black-friendly”. She decided to start a list “of restaurants in Cape Town that are ‘welcoming to all'”.

    Here are her choices:

    • Massimo’s in Hout Bay
    • Kitima in Hout Bay
    • High Tea, a courtyard oasis in the Wynberg area
    • Pakalolo in Hout Bay
    • Addis in Cape Town
    • C’est la Vie in St James
    • Taj Mahal in Hout Bay
    • Café Roux in Noordhoek
    • Tashas in Constantia
    • Wang Thai
    • Starlings in Claremont
    • Spiro’s in Hout Bay

    She clearly love Hout Bay restaurants…

    According to Miss Ranchod:

    In Cape Town, white people can routinely move to the front of the queue, given that the rest of us are invisible, even when we are clearly next in line and even when it is down in writing”.Uhm. I’ve definitely never done that. A queue is a queue. And, yes, if there are four people behind you and a table for four becomes available, it’s fair that they get the table (restaurants need to make the most of their space so I don’t mind that they don’t seat my party of two at a four seater. I actually feel bad when they do).

    Then have a look at Alexis. She is white and she had a less than average experience. It happens.Okay. ‘Nuff said.

    Read Sarita Ranchod‘s full article at City Press. 

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