Ten breakfast and brunch spots in Sea Point, checked September 2026
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Ten breakfast and brunch spots in Sea Point, checked September 2026
Most of Sea Point's breakfast trade sits along two parallel streets a block back from the Atlantic, Main Road and Regent Road, with a few cafés on the side streets between them.
Jump to the mapWe checked every place in the earlier version of this guide against its own website or social media, or against press published in the past year, and added one that was missing. Ten venues passed that check in September 2026. They are listed by street rather than ranked, prices appear only where a dated source gives them, and we leave out opening hours, which change too often to print.
The promenade and the café strip
South African History Online dates Sea Point's growth as a residential suburb for European settlers to the early 1800s. A tramline opened in 1862, the railway from Cape Town arrived on 1 December 1905, and the combined population of Sea Point and Green Point rose from 1,425 in the 1875 census to 8,839 by 1904. St John's Church, one of the projects of the Cape Argus founder Saul Solomon, stood where Regent Road, Kloof Road and Main Road meet until the city council demolished it in the 1930s.
The sea front also has a record of segregation. Swimming baths opened at the foot of Church Road in 1895, for white people only, and were wrecked by a storm in 1911; the Sea Point Pavilion was built at the foot of Clarens Road in 1913 and 1914. In 1953 the Separate Amenities Act declared the pavilion and beach a whites-only amenity, and between 1957 and 1961 the largely Coloured, working-class families of Tramway Road and Ilford Street were forcibly removed to the Cape Flats under the Group Areas Act.
The City of Cape Town now calls the promenade one of the city's most loved public spaces and also one of its busiest. In August 2026 it announced a management protocol for electric scooters and similar devices there, with a speed limit of 8 km/h in shared areas and right of way for pedestrians. Most of the cafés below are a short walk inland from it, and Time Out's Cape Town breakfast guide lists the runners on the Sea Point promenade among the people who have earned their breakfast by sunrise.
Where the ten spots are
The numbers follow the order of this guide, and the shape of each pin shows its street: circles for Regent Road, squares for Kloof Road and Norfolk Road, and diamonds for Main Road. Bootlegger Coffee Company has two pins, one for each of its cafés on Regent Road. Open the map on its own page.
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Eggs Benedict and a breakfast bruschetta, with pastries, cakes and pies at the counter
Confirmed open
Instagram, last week of September 2026
Background
JARRYDS belongs to NoName Hospitality Group, which also runs Ariel Modern Italian and NV-80 Grill & Bar, and the group describes it as a Parisian-inspired bistro and vinyl lounge best known for breakfast.
What to order
The dishes it names first are eggs Benedict and a breakfast bruschetta, with pastries, cakes and pies at the counter and cocktails in the afternoon.
Good to know
Tables cannot be booked, since the group's page says seating is first come, first served. The restaurant's Instagram account was advertising events at 90 Regent Road in the last week of September 2026.
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Bagels boiled in malted water and braised pastrami, with a deli and a bakery
Confirmed open
Website and Instagram, September 2026
Background
The brothers Adam and Joel Klein opened Kleinsky's in Sea Point in 2014 as a small eatery modelled on the delis of New York and Montreal and on their Bubbe's (grandmother's) kitchen. According to the company, it outgrew that first room, moved across the road to 92 Regent Road and then added a deli and a bakery.
What to order
Its bagels are rolled, slow-fermented and boiled in malted water before baking, and the pastrami is brined, spiced and braised for hours.
Good to know
There are now branches elsewhere in Cape Town, in Johannesburg and in Mayfair in London, and the Sea Point deli was still listed on its website and active on Instagram in September 2026.
mischu
85A Regent Road
Price quoted
Pastries from R40; eggs Benedict and flat white special, R119
Price dated
Cape Town Magazine, updated 8 September 2026
What it serves
Croissants, pain au chocolat, sourdough, canelés and banana bread from its bakery
Confirmed open
Cape Town Magazine, 8 September 2026
Background
mischu has been open for nearly 15 years, according to a Cape Town Magazine profile last updated on 8 September 2026, and added a bakery more recently. The owner, Mikhael Bou Rjeily, grew up in Lebanon and told the magazine that the smells he remembers most are coffee and pastries; the front display now fills each morning with croissants, pain au chocolat and sourdough, alongside canelés and banana bread, and the bakery's flatbreads turn up across the breakfast menu.
Prices quoted
The magazine gave pastries from R40 and said that the eggs Benedict and flat white special, at R119, was one of the café's most popular orders.
Good to know
The house Isabella blend, named after his daughter, won gold at the 2026 South African Food & Beverage Awards.
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Coffee, with breakfast all day at both cafés
Confirmed open
Customer reviews, September 2026
Background
The Bootlegger chain started here on Regent Road. Its founders, Pieter Bloem and the brothers De Waal and Antonie Basson, were cyclists who could not find a coffee shop open before 6.30 in the morning. In late 2013 they leased a Regent Road site that was too big for a roastery alone and turned it into a restaurant and coffee bar.
Two cafés on Regent Road
The company's store locator lists two cafés on the street in 2026, Bootlegger XS Sea Point at number 39 and a branch in The Point Mall at number 76, both serving breakfast all day, and its Sea Point page carried customer reviews from September 2026.
Arlecchino
Dolce Vita, 16 Regent Road
Price quoted
Breakfast from R94; mains from R158
Price dated
Cape Town Magazine, updated 9 September 2026
What it serves
Breakfast in the morning, then Italian-leaning lunch and dinner
Confirmed open
Cape Town Magazine, 9 September 2026
Background
Arlecchino is the Tashas Group's restaurant in the Dolce Vita building on Regent Road. House and Garden, writing in March 2026, described a room by the designer Neydine Bak of Verhaal that mixes Milanese modernism with Venetian decorative revival, with mirrored diamond patterns, mosaics and a bar of burled walnut and rounded steel imported from Milan.
Prices quoted
It serves breakfast in the morning before switching to Italian-leaning lunch and dinner menus. Cape Town Magazine's list of new openings, updated on 9 September 2026, gave breakfast from R94 and mains from R158.
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Egg dishes with a choice of topping, and chef's breakfast specials such as Turkish eggs
Confirmed open
Specials announced 26 September 2026
Background
Sonny and Irene is part of the Kove Collection and describes itself as a café and bakery; Inside Guide described its dining room in 2025 as pastel pink, marble and oak with some Art Deco touches.
What to order
On 26 September 2026 it announced a set of chef's breakfast specials: Turkish eggs with spiced lamb and chilli butter, halloumi fritters with butternut zhoug, and a smoked salmon toastie on brioche. Time Out's Cape Town breakfast guide singled out its egg dishes, for which diners choose how the eggs are cooked and then a topping such as halloumi and salsa verde or mushroom and truffle cream.
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Coffee, bagels, croissants, frittatas and cakes, and the Fire Eggs toastie
Confirmed open
Instagram specials, September 2026
Background
Chelsy and Marius Theron run Norfolk Deli, which the writer Kate Walker found stocked with local and imported groceries, soups, pies and ice cream as well as coffee, bagels, croissants, frittatas and cakes when she profiled it for Cape Town Etc.
What to order
Both Cape Town Etc and Time Out single out its birthday cake, a funfetti-style sponge with buttercream and hundreds and thousands, and Time Out's guide also recommended a breakfast toastie called Fire Eggs, filled with scrambled eggs, white cheddar, rocket, chilli mayonnaise and crispy onions.
Good to know
The deli's Instagram account was advertising specials through September 2026, among them a croissant with a pistachio and white chocolate chip cookie baked inside.
Price quoted
Three buttery flapjacks, R95; Bun With Everything, R120; Butter Benedict, R138
Price dated
Website menu, checked 28 September 2026
What it serves
Flapjacks, scones and the Bun With Everything
Confirmed open
Website menu, 28 September 2026
Background
The sisters Aninke and Karien van Antwerpen opened Butter on Loop Street in the city centre and later added the Sea Point branch, and both its website and its Instagram profile still list the two branches.
What to order
The menu is built around butter, from flapjacks and scones to a Bun With Everything that stacks a fried egg, bacon, jalapeños, white cheddar, a hash brown and tomato jam. On the website menu we checked on 28 September 2026, three buttery flapjacks cost R95, the Bun With Everything R120 and the Butter Benedict R138.
Good to know
Inside Guide noted a courtyard at the back of the Sea Point branch where well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome.
Maggy Lou's
206 Main Road
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Green Toast, prego rolls and fried chicken sandwiches
Confirmed open
Crush feature, August 2026
Background
Maggy Lou's is an all-day café whose name, Cape Town Magazine reported in 2024, honours a Sea Point pioneer of the late 1960s who ran a food truck on the promenade; we have found no independent record of her.
What to order
The breakfast menu includes Green Toast, which is sourdough with peas, avocado, marinated courgette and poached eggs, and its best-known orders are prego rolls and fried chicken sandwiches.
Good to know
Crush magazine featured the café's spicy eggs and its seasonal specials in August 2026.
Price quoted
Not stated
Price dated
Not stated
What it serves
Charcuterie, cheeses, breads and home-cooked meals, with a coffee bar
Confirmed open
Instagram, last week of September 2026
Background
Giovanni's is in Green Point rather than Sea Point, a little further along the same Main Road towards the city, and we have kept it from the earlier version of this list. Giovanni Esposito opened the deli on 1 June 1989, and his family ran it for 35 years before selling it in November 2024 to the Sole family, who also own Alphen Constantia Farm Stall and the Cape Quarter Spar. His daughter Gabriella stayed on as chef, and Giovanni and his brother Nicolas as advisers, Cape Town Etc reported at the time.
The deli
It is an Italian deli with a coffee bar and pavement tables, selling charcuterie, cheeses, breads and home-cooked meals, and its Instagram account was posting about the coffee bar in the last week of September 2026.
The ten spots at a glance
The table repeats the addresses and dishes named above, with a price only where a dated source gives one; where none does, it says "Not stated".
| Spot | Address | What it serves | Price quoted | Price dated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JARRYDS | 90 Regent Road | Eggs Benedict and a breakfast bruschetta, with pastries, cakes and pies at the counter | Not stated | Not stated |
| Kleinsky's | 92 Regent Road | Bagels boiled in malted water and braised pastrami, with a deli and a bakery | Not stated | Not stated |
| mischu | 85A Regent Road | Croissants, pain au chocolat, sourdough, canelés and banana bread from its bakery | Pastries from R40; eggs Benedict and flat white special, R119 | Cape Town Magazine, updated 8 September 2026 |
| Bootlegger Coffee Company | 39 Regent Road, and The Point Mall, 76 Regent Road | Coffee, with breakfast all day at both cafés | Not stated | Not stated |
| Arlecchino | Dolce Vita, 16 Regent Road | Breakfast in the morning, then Italian-leaning lunch and dinner | Breakfast from R94; mains from R158 | Cape Town Magazine, updated 9 September 2026 |
| Sonny and Irene | Station House, 19 Kloof Road | Egg dishes with a choice of topping, and chef's breakfast specials such as Turkish eggs | Not stated | Not stated |
| Norfolk Deli | 6 Norfolk Road | Coffee, bagels, croissants, frittatas and cakes, and the Fire Eggs toastie | Not stated | Not stated |
| Butter | 146 Main Road | Flapjacks, scones and the Bun With Everything | Three buttery flapjacks, R95; Bun With Everything, R120; Butter Benedict, R138 | Website menu, checked 28 September 2026 |
| Maggy Lou's | 206 Main Road | Green Toast, prego rolls and fried chicken sandwiches | Not stated | Not stated |
| Giovanni's Deliworld | 103 Main Road, Green Point | Charcuterie, cheeses, breads and home-cooked meals, with a coffee bar | Not stated | Not stated |
What changed since the last version
The earlier version of this guide, dated February 2026, listed a café called Kiosk on Main Road with a wood-fired oven; we could find no current website, social account or press report that confirms it, so it is gone. It placed Kleinsky's at St John's Piazza, 395 Main Road, and said the deli dated back to 1940, whereas the company gives 92 Regent Road and 2014. It also said Butter's Loop Street branch was closed, which the café's website and its Instagram profile both contradict. We removed the opening hours, the price ranges that had no source, and the claims about which cafés run generators. mischu, on Regent Road, is the one venue new to this list.
Two places have opened on Main Road since the earlier version. Caffé Balducci, a revival of the Waterfront restaurant that closed during the Covid-19 pandemic, opened at Piazza St John, 395 Main Road, on 13 September 2026 with a breakfast menu, Cape Town Etc reported, and the Billy Boys burger bar opened at 140 Main Road on 30 June. We will look at Balducci again once it has been open for a few months.
Before you go
Sea Point is covered by our Atlantic Seaboard crime report, whose headline finding is that, of the seven crime types it counts, most reported crime in the area is car crime and theft. Our restaurant map covers eating out across the city, and the Cape Town food guide explains the dishes you are likely to meet on local menus.
Sources
- South African History Online. "Sea Point", place record, updated 16 September 2026.
- City of Cape Town. "City sets deadline for safer e-scooter use on Sea Point Promenade", media release, 6 August 2026.
- Alicia Erickson and Richard Holmes. "The 28 best breakfast and brunch spots in Cape Town", Time Out, 23 September 2025.
- NoName Hospitality Group. JARRYDS, venue page, checked 28 September 2026; JARRYDS on Instagram, post of 25 September 2026.
- Kleinsky's. Company website, checked 28 September 2026; Kleinsky's on Instagram, post of 24 September 2026.
- Khadeeja Adams. "The Sea Point bakery inspired by Lebanon's food culture", Cape Town Magazine, last updated 8 September 2026.
- Bootlegger Coffee Company. "Our Story" and Bootlegger XS Sea Point store page, checked 28 September 2026.
- Olivia Vergunst. "Arlecchino by Tashas brings Milanese modernism to Sea Point", House and Garden, 2 March 2026.
- "25+ new restaurants and experiences in Cape Town 2026", Cape Town Magazine, last updated 9 September 2026.
- Kove Collection. Sonny and Irene, venue page, checked 28 September 2026; Sonny and Irene on Instagram, post of 26 September 2026.
- "The 25 best restaurants in Sea Point, Green Point and Mouille Point", Inside Guide, 1 April 2025.
- Kate Walker. "Norfolk Deli serves up Sea Point's sweetest secret", Cape Town Etc, 25 December 2023; Norfolk Deli on Instagram, posts of 15 and 23 September 2026.
- Butter. Website and menu, checked 28 September 2026; Butter on Instagram, profile ("Loop | Sea Point") and posts of 20 to 28 September 2026.
- Kennedi Vermaak. "Maggy Lou's is Sea Point's cosy all-day café", Cape Town Magazine, 30 July 2024; Crush, Bite Club feature on Maggy Lou's, Instagram, 17 August 2026.
- Giovanni's Deliworld. "About", checked 28 September 2026; Giovanni's Deliworld on Instagram, post of 27 September 2026.
- Jared Moorgas. "Renowned Cape Town deli Giovanni's to change ownership", Cape Town Etc, 28 November 2024.
- "Balducci's back: introducing Caffé Balducci, Sea Point's all-day destination", Cape Town Etc, 24 September 2026.
- Photo: ~ souTH AFRica ~, Promenade, Sea Point, Cape Town (taken 24 January 2013), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed and verified by humans.
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