A great find
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Like most places in the City Bowl, Cape Town’s mind-blowing scenery is all around you in the mountains – Lion’s Head and Table Mountain loom overhead.
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The park itself is set under old stone pines that offer shade without totally obscuring the view. It is well equipped and maintained and the perimeter is secure so there’s no risk of kids escaping while you’re dealing with a particularly delicious mouthful!
This seems like the perfect public-private partnership: a City of Cape Town public park twinned with a private enterprise café. The result – a wonderful place for the kids to run and play while their minders get a welcome break and a great menu to choose from if they want it!
I imagine it’s superb even in cooler weather when you go looking for sunshine to bask in – the terrace’s position means it will be sun-drenched and warm then!
The café’s menu is extensive, covering breakfasts and teas and delicious looking light meals. They go one beyond most places in this league in that they even have a reasonable selection of wines on offer.
All in all this was a great find and well worth sharing with other people who are in Cape Town with children.
Where is it? Corner of Highland Ave and Deer Park Drive West, Vredehoek
Not to be confused with De Waal Park on Camp Road, Gardens where there is a lovely old-fashioned English style park but no tearoom, or with Deer Park itself which is a popular mountain biking area accessible from the top of Deer Park Drive East.
