How to spend 48 hours in Cape Town

1

Coffee at Origin Coffee Roasting

Get coffee from the 12-year-old Origin on Hudson Street.

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2

Eastern food bazaar on Longmarket Street

Nowhere lays this city’s cultural idiosyncrasies on the table better and faster.

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3

Cape Town's coolest foodie corridor

This is Cape Town’s coolest foodie corridor.

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4

Fire & Ice Bar

Where Bree Street peters out to the south, pop over one block to the Fire and Ice bar at Protea Hotel.

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5

Sushi Surprise

This may be the first time that I’ve recommended dinner at a shopping mall restaurant.

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6

Drink in the view at Silo Hotel

Head back to your accommodation on the V&A Waterfront for a nightcap.

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7

Pastel Houses in Africa

Working-class Bo-Kaap (literally, ‘above the Cape’) district has the prettiest gathering of pastel houses in Africa.

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8

Visit mom & pop

Bo-Kaap, where freed Malay and mixed-race slaves settled, also happens to be its own mini food safari.

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9

Devil's Peak Brewing Company

Frankly, you’d have to be an idiot not to find a quality bottle of wine in Cape Town, but traditionally the same could not be said for beer.

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10

The Woodstock Revival

Woodstock used to be the wrong side of the tracks (literally), a seedy side of town to say the least.