Parker Cottage B&B - Food & Wine

Breakfast

At Parker Cottage Guest House, every day sees a different culinary touch to our sumptuous breakfasts. We always offer freshly baked croissants, individually prepared fruit salads, a wide range of cereals and freshly prepared cooked breakfasts. There is a range of excellent cold meats, cheeses and fresh bread all of which is delicatessen standard and sourced from local suppliers within a 200km radius (so it`s fresh, excellent quality and supports local industry.) We really like you to take your time over breakfast. You`ve a choice of outside on the veranda, in the garden under the orange tree or in our grand dining room. As far as possible, we use local, organic supplies from local entrepreneurs. Here are some recent arrivals at our breakfast table:

Parker Open Sandwich: toasted rye bread with creme fraiche, topped with mushrooms sauted in garlic and lemon juice and layered with rocket.

Really Wild Salad (Phil’s invention!) – nectarine segments skewered with Kudu biltong and grapes and strawberries

Parker Cheese-on-Toast: grilled halloumi on toated wholewheat with pear julienne and avocado scoops.

Evening Drinks

At least twice a week at Parker, we invite our guests to share a glass (or three!) of wine with us at sunset. Suitably charged up for the evening, you can then take a short stroll through Cape Town’s mellow evening streets to one of several restaurants we recommend in the neighbourhood.

We’re still compiling our winelist, but so far, at least two or three of the following splendid creations will be on offer most evenings.

Cape to Cairo Syrah – a very smooth Syrah, marketed by a good friend of ours, who introduced us to this very easy drinking and perennial Parker favourite.

Le Pommier Cab. Sauv. Res 04 – a lovely vanilla-essense wine and some delicate tannins. This is one of those wines that seems to compliment anything, from conversation to Kingklip.

Four Fields Chardonnay - Liz loves chardonnay, Phil loathes it, but this Four Fields we describe as the 'Chardonnay for Non Chardonnay Drinkers'! Fruity and zesty without the cloying. Lovely.

Haute Cabrière Chardonnay-Pinot Noir. A very easy drinking almost apple-flavoured wine, off dry and sociable. This one is real crowd-pleaser and we're never without a case or two.

Restaurants we recommend

We spend a lot of time choosing fine places to eat in Cape Town. We honestly believe that you really can’t find the same variety at the same price for the same quality anywhere else in the world. Cape Town is just a food paradise, no question about it!

We tend to favour owner-managed, unpretensious, highly personalized eating, so you won’t find any restaurants on this list that are too serious, too fashionable or too aloof. These places are about the welcome and the food, not just the food. Some are more about a dining experience, others more about a place to eat and laugh.

For our full restaurant list, please see the Parker Cottage Guide to Dining Out in Cape Town. http://www.parkercottage.co.za/information-about-the-guesthouse/dining-in-cape-town

Bon Appetit!