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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Cape Town from the En Primeur Club guide.

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Cape Town, South Africa
Our Cape Town guide includes 24 exceptional wine programmes, including sommelier-led cellars, extensive lists, and bars pouring natural and conventional wine. Schotschekloof holds 34 venues, the largest neighbourhood count in the guide. That neighbourhood gathers harbour-view dining rooms such as Belthazar, PIER and Karibu Restaurant. Bo-Kaap is the next large concentration, and it is where wine bars such as Culture Wine Bar, Tannin and Openwine sit beside the bistro list at Grub & Vine. Aubergine in City Bowl keeps a sommelier-led cellar of over 600 selections. Fyn in City Bowl, La Colombe in Witteboomen and Salsify at the Roundhouse in Clifton serve tasting menus and have recent World's 50 Best Restaurants placements. Groot Constantia in Constantia has produced wine since 1685, Klein Constantia in Constantia is known for Vin de Constance, and Beyond in Steenberg holds the Wine Enthusiast Best Winery Restaurant title for 2026.

Awarded wine lists

Wine Spectator awards and repeated Star Wine List honours mark the cellars that stand out in our Cape Town guide. The formats include a steakhouse by-the-glass list, a hotel wine gallery and a Bo-Kaap wine bar.

  • Belthazar

    Belthazar in Schotschekloof is a steakhouse and seafood restaurant with an exceptional, sommelier-led wine programme on an a la carte menu. Up to 250 Cape wines are offered by the glass. It holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, the only award at that level in our Cape Town guide, and it also holds Star Wine List awards.

  • Aubergine

    Aubergine in City Bowl occupies a 200-year-old house and serves contemporary European cooking with Eastern influences, using South African ingredients. Chef Harald Bresselschmidt offers a tasting menu and a la carte. The wine programme is exceptional and sommelier-led, with over 600 selections, and the restaurant holds Star Wine List awards across multiple years.

  • Salsify at the Roundhouse

    Salsify at the Roundhouse in Clifton serves modern South African fine dining in a historic national monument, with ocean and mountain views. Chef Ryan Cole cooks with local produce and a vegetable-forward instinct, in tasting-menu and a la carte formats. The wine programme is exceptional and sommelier-led. It holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, and World's 50 Best placed it at number 88 in 2025.

  • Culture Wine Bar

    Culture Wine Bar in Bo-Kaap pours natural wine and conventional wine, with sparkling wines, cult classics and global imports in the mix. The programme is exceptional, and the South African side is a medium-sized selection. Star Wine List has recognised the bar every year from 2022 through 2026.

  • Ellerman House

    Ellerman House in Bantry Bay is a restored Edwardian oceanfront mansion with cliffside Atlantic views, an art collection and a wine gallery holding 7,500 bottles. The latest Michelin award on the hotel is two Keys. Star Wine List awards sit with that cellar. The tasting menu Curate is served in the Wine Gallery.

Tasting menus

Tasting menus in the guide run from kaiseki and French-Asian theatre to an eight-course hotel gallery and an omakase counter. The rooms sit in City Bowl, Witteboomen, Bantry Bay and Mowbray.

  • Fyn

    Fyn in City Bowl serves a kaiseki-style tasting menu that works South African fynbos through Japanese technique, with dishes such as Mozambican crab and indigenous seaweed. Chef Peter Tempelhoff's room looks over Table Mountain. The wine programme is exceptional and sommelier-led. World's 50 Best placed the restaurant at number 82 in 2025.

  • La Colombe

    La Colombe in Witteboomen serves Chef James Gaag's French-Asian cooking through tasting and set menus. Its exceptional wine programme includes an extensive list led by a sommelier. The Best Chef awarded Two Knives in 2025.

  • Curate

    Curate in Bantry Bay is an eight-course tasting menu in the Wine Gallery at Ellerman House. The cooking is modern South African fine dining, with seasonal courses, wine pairings and South African produce. The wine programme is exceptional and sommelier-led. The restaurant holds a Relais Chateaux award for 2026.

  • Chefs Warehouse Beau Constantia

    Chefs Warehouse Beau Constantia in Witteboomen is a glass-and-wood restaurant above the Beau Constantia wine farm, with panoramic vineyard views and an open kitchen. Liam Tomlin's produce-led cooking, with Asian influences, is served as tasting menus, a set menu and small plates. The wine programme is sommelier-led. La Liste scored the restaurant at 93 points in 2026.

  • Rikū ’s Counter

    Rikū ’s Counter in Mowbray is an 18-seat sushi counter for omakase, blending Edomae technique with South African ingredients. The format is counter dining. Drinks include a sake programme and sommelier-led. The Best Chef awarded One Knife in 2025.

Dining in Schotschekloof

Schotschekloof holds 34 venues in our guide, the largest neighbourhood count. These rooms pair harbour views with French and contemporary tasting menus, South African cooking, a Wine Spectator list and sushi-led Euro-Asian plates.

  • PIER

    PIER in Schotschekloof serves contemporary French fine dining as a tasting menu and a prix fixe, with seafood-forward plates and South African produce. The room has V&A Waterfront views from the Pierhead. It is part of the La Colombe group. The wine programme is extensive and sommelier-led, with a Star Wine List award. La Liste scored it at 77 points in 2026.

  • Karibu Restaurant

    Karibu Restaurant in Schotschekloof serves South African cooking, including game, as small plates and a la carte dishes. The wine programme is extensive. It holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, a Star Wine List award and a World's Best Wine Lists 2-Star award.

  • The Waterside

    The Waterside in Schotschekloof serves contemporary fine dining with South African influences, as a tasting menu and a set menu. The wine programme is extensive and sommelier-led, and craft cocktails are poured. It holds The Best Chef One Knife, a Star Wine List award, and a 2025 World Culinary Awards title for South Africa's Best Culinary Experience.

  • Terrarium Restaurant

    Terrarium Restaurant in Schotschekloof serves contemporary international fine dining, with an eight-course tasting menu and a la carte choices. The wine programme is extensive. The restaurant holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.

  • Beluga

    Beluga in Schotschekloof serves Euro-Asian fusion with sushi, in a la carte and small-plate formats, in an Art Deco-inspired room. The wine programme is exceptional and extensive, and craft cocktails sit alongside the list. The room looks onto the V&A Waterfront harbour.

Estate wineries and winery restaurants

Our guide includes 18 wineries, from Constantia to Noordhoek and Durbanville. Restaurants with exceptional wine programmes also sit on working estates, including rooms in Steenberg and Westlake.

  • Klein Constantia

    Klein Constantia in Constantia is the estate tied to Vin de Constance, the sweet wine revived here and once favoured by Napoleon and European royalty. World's 50 Best Vineyards placed the estate at number 6 in 2025. The hills around the property frame Table Mountain and distant ocean views.

  • Groot Constantia

    Groot Constantia in Constantia has produced wine since 1685 and is South Africa's oldest working wine estate, with historic Cape Dutch architecture. Its wines have won awards, and the estate holds a Falstaff winery listing for 2026.

  • Beyond

    Beyond in Steenberg is a glass-clad dining room on the Buitenverwachting wine estate, looking over the Constantia winelands. The kitchen serves modern South African fine dining as a tasting menu and a la carte, with an exceptional, extensive wine programme. Wine Enthusiast named it Best Winery Restaurant for 2026. La Liste has scored the restaurant in consecutive years.

  • Bistro Sixteen82

    Bistro Sixteen82 in Westlake serves contemporary bistro dishes and tapas, in a la carte and small-plate formats, adjacent to the winery on Steenberg Estate. The wine programme is exceptional, extensive and sommelier-led. The room looks onto mountains and the winelands.

  • Cape Point Vineyards

    Cape Point Vineyards in Noordhoek is known for Sauvignon Blanc, with panoramic views over the Atlantic and the vineyards. It holds a Falstaff listing. Atlantic influence shapes the estate's growing conditions, south of the Constantia properties.

Wine bars in Bo-Kaap

Bo-Kaap holds 32 venues in our guide. The wine bars there split between a large South African list, a by-the-glass enoteca, natural wine and a jazz lounge with a Star Wine List award.

  • Tannin

    Tannin in Bo-Kaap pours over 430 South African wine labels. The multi-storey bar has art displays and serves seasonal small plates. Dominic and Lisa Wood founded the bar. It holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.

  • Openwine

    Openwine in Bo-Kaap is an enoteca focused exclusively on South African wines by the glass, drawn from over 200 bottles, and it is the city's first enoteca of that kind. Natural wine and conventional wine are both poured. Raphael Paterniti founded it. The bar holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.

  • Leo's

    Leo's in Bo-Kaap works as a bagel shop in the daytime, under the Max Bagels name, and as a wine bar at night. The evening pour is low-intervention and natural wine from small producers. The bar holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.

  • Akra Bar

    Akra Bar in Bo-Kaap is an intimate cocktail and natural wine bar, with craft cocktails, classic cocktails, zero-proof drinks and vintage wines. Seasonal cocktails take a Mediterranean turn. The bar sits above Ouezeri, the contemporary Greek-Cypriot restaurant in Bo-Kaap.

  • The Blue Room

    The Blue Room in Bo-Kaap is a live music lounge for jazz and blues, with local and international artists, and a wine list beside craft cocktails. It is the jazz-and-cocktail room linked to Grub & Vine, the bistro in the same neighbourhood. The bar holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.

Planning FAQ

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Cape Town?

Cape Town has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Michelin awards in the guide are hotel Keys. Ellerman House in Bantry Bay, Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town in City Bowl, and Cape Grace, A Fairmont Managed Hotel in Schotschekloof hold two Keys in their latest awards. The Silo Hotel in Schotschekloof and The Cellars-Hohenort in Constantia hold one Key.

Which neighbourhoods hold the serious wine lists?

Awarded wine lists are in Schotschekloof, Clifton, Bo-Kaap, City Bowl, Higgovale, Mowbray and Bantry Bay. Belthazar and Karibu Restaurant in Schotschekloof and Salsify at the Roundhouse in Clifton hold Wine Spectator awards. Star Wine List holders include Tannin in Bo-Kaap, Aubergine in City Bowl, PIER in Schotschekloof, Publik Wine Bar in Higgovale, Cooper Wine Bar in Mowbray and Cassette in Bantry Bay.

Where are the tasting menus?

Tasting menus in our guide sit in City Bowl, Witteboomen, Schotschekloof, Clifton, Bantry Bay, Mowbray, Steenberg, Cape Town CBD, Atlantic Seaboard and Gardens. City Bowl has Fyn, Aubergine, Belly of the beast and Chef's Table. Witteboomen has La Colombe and Chefs Warehouse Beau Constantia. Schotschekloof has PIER, Terrarium Restaurant, The Waterside, Nobu (One&Only Hôtel) and GOLD Restaurant. Clifton has Salsify at the Roundhouse and The Roundhouse.

Which places hold Wine Spectator awards?

Our guide counts three Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence and one Best of Award of Excellence, citywide. Belthazar in Schotschekloof holds the Best of Award of Excellence and pours up to 250 Cape wines by the glass. Salsify at the Roundhouse in Clifton and Karibu Restaurant in Schotschekloof are among the restaurants with an Award of Excellence.

What wine-list styles show up in the guide?

Large Cape by-the-glass lists, sommelier-led cellars and natural-wine bars are the main styles. Belthazar in Schotschekloof offers up to 250 Cape wines by the glass. Aubergine in City Bowl lists over 600 selections in a sommelier-led programme. Tannin in Bo-Kaap holds over 430 South African wine labels. Publik Wine Bar in Higgovale and Leo's in Bo-Kaap focus on small-producer natural wine.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

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