So off Graham went and took a tour around the peninsula and enjoyed what most locals tend to miss out on. Here are a few of the stand out favourite lines:

Cape Town

Start at Luke Dale-Roberts’s The Test Kitchen – it’s the hot Cape Town ticket, so you will have to book well ahead.

The six-course Discovery Menu costs £22 and the eight-course Gourmand menu £50 (£68 with paired wines) – ludicrously cheap for such fine food.

I wish.

A few miles from The Test Kitchen, just around Table Mountain, is Constantia – the best restaurant here is Greenhouse in the Cellars Hohenort Hotel at 43 Brommersvlei Road. Liveried waiters deliver duck and porcini pastille and slow-roasted crispy duck with honey ginger jus. It is an adventurous menu that doesn’t take itself too seriously – lobster sandwich, miso and sesame macaroons and goat’s cheese cupcakes lead you to slow-cooked Karoo lamb chops and coconut-crusted lamb heart. Tasting menus from £40.

Nothing too ludicrous about that. But then he discovers Noordhoek:

Close to Cape Town is Noordhoek, a coastal suburb some 20 miles from the city and the location of Cape Point vineyards, where Duncan Savage makes international award-winning wines. Nearby is the Foodbarn, where chef Franck Dangereux serves up a Cape version of French country cuisine as well as outstanding tapas. The view overlooking the five-mile-long Kommetjie beach alone is worth the trip.

Graham then visits Stellenbosch and Franschhoek – check out what he has to say here. But his description of The Swartland is unprecedented:

The Swartland

The hippie/surfie/wannabe astronaut winemakers – under the collective banner of Swartland Independent Producers – are regarded as the hottest new thing in the Cape. Some 35 miles north of Stellenbosch, the Swartland is raw, spectacular countryside with soaring mountains and dramatic valleys. But most of the small-production, family winemakers are somewhat reclusive and hard to find, living as they do at the end of corrugated dirt roads. Where you will find them is in the small village of Riebeek Kasteel during the annual celebration called The Swartland Revolution. Now in its sixth year, this is an enormous party in early November comprising seminars, dinners and wine tastings.