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Experience a true holiday at Villa Atlantica with the best Cape Town restaurants in walking distance,  your luxury Self Catering and B&B accommodation in Camps Bay. Villa Atlantica in Camps Bay is in easy reach of the Camps Bay restaurants.

Camps Bay offers a some of the finest cuisine and entertainment in Cape Town, all in walking distance from Villa Atlantica, offering luxury guest house accommodation close to all amenities in Camps Bay.

The Roundhouse Restaurant Tel: 021 438 4347 - French, Contemporary, Fine Dining

The historic Roundhouse Restaurant nestled in the picturesque Glen side of Camps Bay on the slopes of Lions Head, with sensational views across Camps Bay and the beautiful12 Apostles mountain range. The style of cuisine is, contemporary French, inspired by seasonal ingredients and paired with one of the finest boutique wine collections in South Africa. Hospitality will ensure warmth, comfort and relaxation with great ambiance and nostalgia as a backdrop.

Azure 021 437 9055 - Fine Dining, Global/International, Portuguese, South African

The Head Chef creates a variety of dishes including meat, seafood and vegetarian options. From the spicy entree of our Cape Malay pickled fish or the delicate fresh oysters followed by a butternut, baby marrow and morogo lasagne or the grilled kingklip served with sautéed brown rice and chives with a roasted fennel sauce, your taste buds will be infused by the finest of organic ingredients. Azure is the first to introduce Fynbos cooking - utilising this natural wild vegetation from our gardens rounded off with a delightfully sweet dessert of fynbos honey bavarois or Bea's baked cheesecake taken on our stunning terrace overlooking the ocean and magnificent sunset of Camps Bay.      
            

Blues 021 438 2016 - Mediterranean, Seafood, Global/International, Contemporary

Blues is very laidback and leisured, it has a really good view of Camps Bay. The menu concentrates on expensive seafood, steak and fish dishes and top wines, but there is a wide choice, including some good Italian food like feather-light gnocchi and ostrich steak with red-wine sauce. Food is well presented.

Café Caprice Tel: 021 438 8315 -   Breakfast, Coffee Shop, Grills, Light Meals                     

Café Caprice attracts a trendy crowd of sophisticated young, professionals, glamorous models, and its fair share of celebrities. The location is ideal with wonderful views of the Camps Bay beachfront, it is popular for film shoots and has  received several good write-ups in overseas publications.  Sunsets along this part of the Camps Bay coastline are legendary, and outside tables are filled to capacity every evening with a lively crowd enjoying sundowners and the impressive variety of cocktails on offer.  Café Caprice is very popular for breakfast with Eggs Benedict, Healthy Rising and a variety of omelettes. Wholesome lunches include crisp salads, baguettes and ciabata with a selection of fillings, and an excellent 250 gram pure beef burger. 

Café Del Mar Tel: 021 438 8315 - Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Breakfast, Light Meals, Bistro

This restaurant takes advantage of its picturesque location on Camps Bay beachfront and they are children friendly.  Outside seating under large umbrella's makes Cafe del Mar a favorite spot to pass a few leisurely hours sipping cocktails, relaxing and perhaps having a light bite to eat. The food is excellent no matter what you eat. Although the menu is small, it gives a wonderful selection of light meals and breakfasts, and caters for vegetarians. The service is fast and friendly.

Cape Town Fish Market Tel: 021 438 8315 - Seafood, South African, Japanese, Sushi 

Cape Town Fish Market in Camps Bay, with chic yet informal surroundings, brings a feast of delicious flavours to its customers.   Even if you're not a fish-lover, you'll definitely find something on the menu to sink your teeth into.  The seafood platters come highly recommended. For those who aren’t that partial to seafood, there is also a choice of meat and poultry as well as a number of vegetarian dishes. Children are catered for and all meat and poultry is Halaal.. The Sushi Bar with its conveyor-belt of tasty treats will leave you hooked.

The Codfather Camps Bay 021 438 0782/3 - Seafood, Vegetarian, Light Meals, Sushi

We serve an excellent array of fresh seafood and sushi in a very vibey, yet warm and relaxed environment. We do not have any menus but the unique way in which the waiters help you put your meal together works beautifully in that it allows you select everything according to your appetite and budget.

Camps Bay Col’Cacchio Pizzeria Tel: 021 438 2171 - Italian, Vegetarian, Pizzas, Health, Pastas

All sauces are freshly prepared and Col’Cacchio endeavour to procure organic ingredients wherever viable. In addition to the extensive menu Col’Cacchio offers wheat-free tagliatelle and wheat and gluten free pizza bases for those that have a wheat intolerance.  The pizza combinations are endless with 50 standard combinations to choose from. In addition there is a comprehensive list of ingredients to create your own pizza if none of the standard 50 combinations appeal to your taste buds.  The salad selection offers 20 enticing, colourful combinations,   Pasta lovers will enjoy the more unusual Fresca with roasted vegetables, rocket, sundried tomato, ricotta and pinenuts, or the Lamb Tortellini with osso buco sauce, red pepper and bacon.

Ocean Blue Tel: 021 438 9838 - Seafood

Ocean Blue, one of Camps Bay’s most well established and popular Sea Food Restaurants  Whether you are starting your day with an early morning breakfast, enjoying a light lunch before returning to an afternoon on the beach or sipping cocktails at sunset prior to a gourmet seafood supper, Ocean Blue will captivate you with its food, ambiance and excellent service.                                 .                                                

Paranga Tel: 021 438 0404 - Seafood, Grills, Sushi

The cuisine combines bold flavours and stunning presentation. The bar is highly popular for after-work drinks where the setting sun bears witness to the ebb and flow of the Camps Bay social scene. Paranga buzzes with pure energy, an unmistakable vibe created by the people but also by the music. 

Primi Pomodoro Tel: 021 438 2923 - Italian

Tourists and locals alike agree that Pomodoro is the perfect mix of holiday ease and high quality food. Primi in Camps Bay is a good place for the family and an even better place for fun get-togethers. Primi’s cater for the seasoned traveller but never forget the more conservative customer. Or the limits of your pocket. Their generous servings are all made fresh to order - espresso style - from fresh ingredients in their open kitchen and cooked to perfection to achieve the punchy flavour for which they have become famous.

Sandbar  

Mediterranean food in a charming location directly opposite Camps Bay beach. Enjoy an affordable light lunch or dinner at this prominent sundowner spot, while watching the sun set over the beach. Beach attire optional ...

Summerville 021 438 3174 - Contemporary, Global/International, Grills, Mediterranean

Summerville in Camps Bay has a modern contemporary menu that will cater for the adventurous as well as the more conservative of palates. At Summerville only the freshest ingredients are used in the careful preparation of our dishes. The wine list has been carefully selected to represent the entire spectrum of regions and cultivars that best represent what South African winemaking is all about. A recent addition to Summerville Restaurant is Sumbar, a unique cigar lounge and bar area where you can relax with a cigar and a cognac or, if you prefer, a dance to our in house DJ’s might be in order!                  

The Bayside Cafe Tel: 021 438 2650 - Grills, Breakfast, Seafood, Vegetarian

Popular for breakfasts especially on weekends and holidays, the Bayside Café in Camps Bay is fortunate to have shaded pavement tables to make the most of the warm summer months. The breakfast menu is impressive with a selection that includes Salmon, Croissants and French toast. For light lunches the menu offers Burgers, Baguettes, Wraps, Sandwiches and plenty of fresh crisp salads. Well known for their excellent Ribs, Steaks and Seafood, it is difficult to pin point specific dishes on the main menu as there are so many good things on offer. It is worth noting however that vegetarians have been well catered for with choices that include a fragrant Thai vegetable curry and Tortilla wraps with veggies and creamed butternut sauce.

 The Hussar Grill Tel: 021 438 0151 - Steakhouse, Game, Grills, Seafood (opposite Villa Atlantica)

Our multiple award winning grillrooms have been proud purveyors of the finest South African steak and game cuts since 1964. The Hussar Grill offer the most outstanding quality and value for money in the city and, although we have a Gold Medal wine card, we do not charge corkage on wines brought in by our guests. In addition to our super grade, grain fed beef cuts such as fillet, rump, sirloin and TBones, we ordinarily offer the following matured and hung game species: Kudu, Springbok, Wildebees, Eland and Warthog. These cuts are subject always to hunt and season. We also serve ostrich.

Tides Restaurant Tel: 021 430 4444 - Seafood, Contemporary

Tides Restaurant opposite Camps Bay Beach is a restaurant where fine dining is the result of the study of fresh ingredients, complementing flavours and exquisite presentation. With an amalgamation of flavours that please the discerning palate, dinner at Tides is an affair of the senses.  Tides offers a delectable palate of seafood and a selection of meat and game dishes, all beautifully presented with panache.

Tuscany Beach Restaurant 021 438 1213 / 0559 - Italian, Seafood, Fine Dining, Grills, Sushi

Breakfast, which has already become an institution amongst locals, flows into lunch, lunch into afternoon tea, afternoon tea into sundowners and cocktail hour, cocktail hour into early suppers, early suppers into fine dining, and fine dining into chilled-out after dinner drinks.  For the trendy, hip and happening, a cocktail bar complete with spirit-flaring barmen beckons from the Camps Bay beach, while an upbeat evening spent at the sushi bar with Johnny, Cape Town's popular Asian sushi-maestro.

Vida e Caffè

Walk down any street in Lisboa, Porto, Rome, Paris or Barcelona, and you will see the sidewalk cafés that have been its inspiration. Camps Bay has opened in Vida e Caffe, a shrine for the wonderful bean and the drinking of it in its purest form

 Wang Thai -  Tel: 021 438 3005 Thai, Asian, Seafood, Sushi, Vegetarian

We would like to introduce our traditions and culture to you by getting you to experience the varied and exciting tastes of Thai cuisine in Camps Bay. Not only are our highly trained master chefs all from Thailand, most of our ingredients are also imported from Thailand’s best suppliers.  Come and watch our Thai chefs in action through the dramatic exhibition kitchen, while they prepare to spoil you with their masterful creations using only the freshest ingredients and spices imported directly from Thailand.

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