Cape Town’s best outdoor bars and pubs

Cape Town summers can be fickle things. Just when you think it’s safe to go out in flops and t-shirt, another front glances off the peninsula and we’re back to the wind and rain for another few days. An old friend of mine used to say that Cape Town only ever gets 10 perfect days a year: 28-32 degrees, light to zero wind, and those wonderful warm evenings that linger long after the sun’s gone down.

He may be right, he may be wrong, but when those perfect days do come along they’re not to be wasted. There are plenty of ways to spend them – propping up a bar is just one – but if a bar beckons then let it be an outdoors bar, or at least something inside with a lekker sunset view.

With that in mind I’ve put together some of my favourites. Cape Town has plenty of candidates and I don’t claim this as the exhaustive list, but if you’re looking for some outdoor pub/bar/bistro inspiration, here’s a good place to start.


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