Another little café we stumbled across in the District 6 area of Cape Town is Charly’s. It has become something of an institution in Cape Town, serving up delicious cakes and coffees.
It started off as a dream of a young boy called Charly who at 16 was employed in a German bakery in a desert town, sweeping the floors and making puff pastry. He dreamed of owning his own café, and over time learnt how to bake from the German Master Baker. Meeting his wife and moving to Cape Town, the café began. It has become more and more successful, moving from the Waterfront to its own lovely pink Victorian house with Table Mountain as its backdrop. We visited on Valentine’s Day and the café was packed with couples buying bright red heart cupcakes and cakes dripping in chocolate.
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| Valentine's Day rush on heart cup cakes! |
Away with the Fairies in Hogsback
Another lovely little café we stopped at after a hard day’s mountain biking in the town of Hogsback was Butterfly’s Bistro. Hogsback is a bit of an alternative town up in the hills. It’s scenery is said to have inspired J.R. Tolkien to write Lords of the Rings, and has a bit of a mystical feel about the place – The Granny Mouse House, Hobbiton and the Eco Shrine. Our hostel – Away with the Fairies had a 15 m high treehouse and a bath tub on the cliff top.
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| The crazy girls at Butterfly's Bistro |
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