Cape Town restaurants with a view, from Camps Bay to Kalk Bay

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Where the nine restaurants are

The numbers follow the order of this guide. Harbour House Kalk Bay and Live Bait share one building on the Kalk Bay breakwater, so they share a pin. Open the map on its own page.

1. Azure at The Twelve Apostles

The coast road beyond Camps Bay runs between the Atlantic and the Twelve Apostles, and The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa on Victoria Road presents itself as a place to watch the sun set into the ocean, with Table Mountain National Park and Lion's Head behind. Its Azure Restaurant, under executive chef Christo Pretorius, builds its menu around local seafood and sustainably caught fish, and the hotel lists mussels, crayfish, oysters, prawns, langoustines and squid among its mainstays, alongside meat and vegetarian dishes. The dining room has leather seating and white tablecloths, and it opens onto an ocean-facing terrace. In September 2026 the restaurant's Dineplan listing offered twelve oysters with a bottle of Boschendal Brut for R990 per person at lunchtime, and a two-course set lunch on the terrace, both running until the end of November.

2. Salsify at the Roundhouse

Higher up the slope, Salsify at the Roundhouse occupies the upper floor of a building that dates from 1786 and served first as a guardhouse and then as a hunting lodge for Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape. The Cape Times reported in June 2026 that the chef Ryan Cole, who grew up in a Cape Town fishing family and was head chef at The Test Kitchen, opened Salsify there with Luke Dale-Roberts in 2018, and that he still catches much of his own seafood. The room that looks out over the Atlantic is the light-filled Sea Room.

The kitchen serves a ten-course chef's menu which the Cape Times says draws on springbok, foraged coastal herbs, ancient grains and Atlantic seafood. In September 2026 the restaurant listed that menu at R2,100 per person, and a five-course spring lunch at R1,190. Salsify holds three stars in the 2026 Eat Out awards, where Cole also received the Chefs' Chef award, and it entered the extended World's 50 Best Restaurants list at number 88 in 2025.

3. Harbour House V&A Waterfront

Harbour House V&A Waterfront is on the ground floor at Quay Four, where the tables are behind glass walls that look out on the working harbour. It shares its name, and most of its menu, with the Harbour House at Kalk Bay harbour: oysters, calamari, mussels, prawns and line fish, with steak, lamb and vegetarian dishes for anyone who does not eat seafood. On the menu dated May 2026, kingklip with parsley risotto cost R395 and a seafood pasta of calamari, mussels, prawns and line fish in a Parmesan cream sauce cost R366. The same two dishes cost R355 and R332 at Kalk Bay, so eating at the Waterfront branch costs about ten per cent more.

4. Grand Africa Café and Beach

Also within the V&A Waterfront, Grand Africa Café and Beach on Haul Road in Granger Bay is a beach restaurant and bar with tables on the sand, facing the Atlantic with Robben Island on the horizon. Its website describes five bars, open decks over the sea and nine private function areas, and the menu runs from sushi and seafood to pasta, fillet steak and wood-fired pizza. On the menu dated November 2025, a margherita pizza cost R129 and the New Style salmon sashimi R332. The venue advertises DJ sets at sunset and occasional evenings of live jazz.

5. FYN

FYN opened in 2018 on the fifth floor of a former silk factory on Parliament Street, now the Speakers Corner building, in the city centre. The Cape Times reported in March 2026 that the fifth-floor dining room looks out on Table Mountain and Lion's Head. The chef and founder, Peter Tempelhoff, cooks South African ingredients using Japanese technique, and the restaurant describes its cooking as modern African food that follows the Japanese principles of seasonality and restraint. Its name, as the Cape Times explains, means "fine" in Afrikaans and refers to fynbos, the plant kingdom of the Cape.

FYN was named Restaurant of the Year at the 2026 Eat Out awards, with three stars, and it has appeared on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list every year since 2021, reaching 37th place in 2022 and placing 82nd in 2025. In September 2026 its website listed the dinner menu at R2,475 per person and the lunch menu at R1,675, with a discretionary service charge of 13.5 per cent added to every bill.

Its name, as the Cape Times explains, means "fine" in Afrikaans and refers to fynbos, the plant kingdom of the Cape.

6. Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia

Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia is a glass-walled dining room on a boutique wine farm near the top of Constantia Nek. The restaurant looks down over terraced vineyards and the Constantia valley, and the estate says its slopes overlook False Bay, with the Stellenbosch and Helderberg mountains beyond. The chef and partner Ivor Jones, who spent years in the kitchens of La Colombe and The Test Kitchen with Luke Dale-Roberts, cooks a set menu of four courses, each made up of several elements, drawing on flavours from well beyond South Africa. The four-course lunch menu dated 6 March 2026 cost R1,200 per person and included chargrilled yellowfin tuna with a coconut rendang, and braaied line fish with a prawn and scallop sui mai. The restaurant holds two stars in the 2026 Eat Out awards and does not admit children under ten.

7. Beyond

Beyond, a sister restaurant of FYN also run by Peter Tempelhoff, is on the Buitenverwachting wine estate in the same valley, and its website says the dining room was designed to invite the scenery of the estate indoors. The spring menu on its website in September 2026 cost R720 for three courses and R850 for four, with six courses at R1,435 a head, which the whole table must order, and a wine pairing at R1,225. Its dishes included sorghum-crusted springbok with African grains and pan-seared Cape fish with a lime laksa. Beyond also holds two Eat Out stars for 2026 and shared that year's mixology award with FYN.

8. Harbour House Kalk Bay

Kalk Bay is still a working fishing harbour, and two restaurants in the same building on its breakwater look straight out over False Bay.

Harbour House Kalk Bay, upstairs, says that waves splash up against its windows, that its line fish comes from the restaurant's own boat, and that reservations are essential for anyone who wants a window table. On the menu dated May 2026, kingklip with parsley risotto cost R355 and a main course of mussels in a white wine and garlic sauce R188.

9. Live Bait

Live Bait, on the level below, has a wall of windows with False Bay and the mountains on one side and the fishing harbour on the other. The restaurant says that humpback and southern right whales come into the bay from late July to calve, and that diners regularly see them from the tables. The cooking is simple and centred on seafood, with a sushi bar alongside: on the menu dated November 2025, battered hake cost R226 and a seafood linguine with prawns, mussels, calamari and line fish R270.

The restaurant says that humpback and southern right whales come into the bay from late July to calve, and that diners regularly see them from the tables.

What a meal with a view costs in 2026

The R129 dish is a margherita pizza on the sand at Granger Bay, on the November 2025 menu. Most seafood main courses at Live Bait and Harbour House Kalk Bay cost between about R160 and R380, and the dearest fish dishes at the Waterfront branch of Harbour House cost up to R616. At the other end, the tasting menus at Salsify and FYN cost R2,100 and R2,475 a head before wine and service, and Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia and Beyond sit between the two.

At several of these restaurants lunch is noticeably cheaper than dinner, and at lunch you also see the view in full daylight. Salsify's five-course spring lunch cost R1,190 against R2,100 for the full menu, and FYN's lunch menu R1,675 against R2,475 at dinner. On the Atlantic Seaboard dinner is the better time for the view, because the sun sets over the ocean in the evening.

All nine, compared

Other pages on Cape Town Data cover the city's food and restaurants:

• The Cape Town food guide, with the dishes of the city and their history
• The Cape Town restaurant map
• How is Cape Town's restaurant scene?, our overview of dining in the city
• Part 2 of this guide, written in July 2025

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