Appricio · South Africa

What to do in Cape Town, right now.

Cape Town is mountain, ocean and wine within an hour of each other, and the weather calls the shots. Appricio reads it and gives you the one thing worth doing right now — the trail, the beach, the table.

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Cape Town, South Africa
The short list

What Appricio would tell you to do in Cape Town

Mouille Point

Mouille Point Beach

Two distinct coastlines — the cold, glamorous Atlantic Seaboard (Clifton's four pocket coves, Camps Bay, wild Llandudno) and the warmer, mellower False Bay side (Muizenberg for learning to surf, Fish…

Restaurant · Bo-Kaap

Bo-Kaap Kombuis

Born-and-raised Bo-Kaapers Yusuf and Nazli run this family kitchen high on the slopes of Signal Hill — the most genuine place in the city to eat bobotie, denningvleis and slow-cooked bredies as…

Restaurant · Gardens

Amura

Michelin-starred Ángel León's African debut inside the Mount Nelson Hotel — a marine-voyage menu of plankton-infused butter and sustainable seafood in a room styled like a Cape kelp forest; landed on…

Atlantic Seaboard

Clifton 4th

Four sheltered granite-framed coves — 1st quietest, 2nd social and young, 3rd historically the LGBTQ+ beach, 4th family Blue Flag — with turquoise water and Lion's Head as a backdrop; the place Cape…

Shop · City Centre (Long Street)

Clarke's Bookshop

Cape Town's oldest bookshop, open since 1957, with an unrivalled two-storey collection of Africana, South African politics and literary fiction, plus antique maps dating to the 1600s — the kind of…

Landmark · Gardens

The Labia Theatre

South Africa's oldest independent cinema, opened in the 1940s, showing art-house films and classics with a lobby bar where you can take wine and homemade brownies to your seat — a genuine Capetonian…

Cape Town, decided in 30 seconds.

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