riebeek kasteel

We decided to explore a bit of the countryside today, and drove out to Riebeek Kasteel. It's a lovely small country village, with beautiful views, and small shops and restaurants all over the place.

Unfortunately we followed a recommendation in the TimeOut magazine, and had lunch at The Cook & The Gardener. What a disaster. The restaurant looks nice enough, and the menu does look good, but the food took almost an hour to arrive, and there was nothing to nibble on while we waited. And when the food arrived, the pork I ordered was very undercooked (still quite bloody really) and Ansie's fish was just about raw. We sent the food back, and when it re-appeared 10 minutes later, it looked like it had been microwaved.

Eventually we managed to eat most of the tasteless crap, mainly because we were dying of hunger by this time. We won't be going back there ever again.

Other than the unpleasant (long) lunch, we ended up having a wonderful day.