Start from 49 curated places around Cape Town, ZA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Chefs Warehouse Bree Street
Liam Tomlin's original City Bowl tapas-for-two restaurant: order one set menu of small plates to share with a wine pairing. Inventive, fast, no decisions to make.
Salsify at The Roundhouse
18th-century hunting lodge above Camps Bay turned destination tasting menu under chef Ryan Cole, named the 2025 Eat Out Restaurant of the Year. Atlantic-ingredient driven, sharp service, the address-occasion choice.
Trails & outdoors
Lion's Head Summit Trail
The city's most-walked summit — a 669m spiral ascent on a graded path, with chains and ladders for the last steep pitch. About two hours return for the average hiker; the full-moon hike is a local tradition.
Platteklip Gorge
The original, brutal direct route up Table Mountain from Tafelberg Road — a 3km, 700m vertical climb almost entirely on stone steps in a sun-baked gully. The fastest way up on foot, two and a half hours up.
Things to do
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA)
Thomas Heatherwick-designed museum carved out of a 1920s grain silo at the V&A — 100 galleries of contemporary African art across nine floors. Worth visiting for the building alone; the collection is the second reason.
Iziko South African Museum
Government Avenue's natural-history museum, the dinosaur-and-whale-skeleton variety, with strong San rock art galleries and a planetarium attached. The rainy-day plan with kids.
Landmarks & sights
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway
Revolving cable car from the lower contour path to the flat top of the mountain that defines the city. The hike is free and better; the cable car is the right choice in heat, wind or with kids in tow.
Robben Island
UNESCO-listed island prison where Nelson Mandela served 18 of his 27 years. The four-hour visit includes the ferry, a bus tour and the cellblock walk led by a former political prisoner. Heavy, essential.