Babel Restaurant Babylonstoren

I took my hubby to Babylonstoren to go eat at their restaurant Babel for his birthday. We were rather surprised to pay a R10p.p fee to enter the farm as we were going to have lunch at their restaurant.

They have a lovely wine list of local surrounding wine farms. There is a huge vegetable & herb garden where they source their vegetables & herbs from.

The menu is written on the "Bull" board. They have very good ideas it is just not executed well and certain items are rather over priced like R20 for an extra poached egg (that they get from their chickens on the farm for FREE!!). Our food was very bland and had no flavour. Very disappointing!! :( We were wondering why they were not using their "in season" vegetables on their menu and why we received so little of the vegetables on our plates if they farm them right there?!! The menu was rather Summery for a Winters menu.

Dylan slept through most of the lunch.

We enjoyed our Glen Carlou Chardonnay 

We took a stroll in the garden afterwards. It is such a beautiful garden. Found it rude that we greeted the head chef but she did not greet us back.

All in all we did enjoy our day. Loved the garden. We will just not visit them again. 

A day on a beautiful farm with a bestie

It was a beautiful day when the little D man and myself decided to go visit a best friend on her beautiful farm. 

The view from our house just before we left. 

Delicious Barley & Beef Stew for lunch!

Dylan with his favourite Auntie Mona

LoVe my hat :)

Taking a stroll on the farm..

So beautiful!

My favourite flower 

Where did the little guy go?! :)

Stunning!

A tired little boy

Ginja

Chookie

Tea time 

Cupcakes num num num!!

A sleepy little guy

Apprentice & Kaapzicht Adventure

It was a beautiful cold rainy day when I decided, with my mom & sister, to adventure to Apprentice Restaurant & Kaapzicht Wine Farm for a little outing.

I got little D ready and dressed him up in a warm little winters outfit. Everyone was ready and waiting for mommy and babe. Dylan hates his car seat. I strapped him in, with his favorite giraffe & bunny mobile attached for his entertainment. I have not even heard the "click" of the safety button when he started to scream (red in the face and fists flying). I had to get to the car ASAP and get going! As soon as the wheels started rolling little man was fast a sleep.

Our first stop was Apprentice Restaurant in Stellenbosch.

We started with a lovely warm Cappuccino.

I love that they have their menu on a black board. It makes it easy to change and looks so funky.

Apprentice Restaurant is part of the Institute of Culinary Arts. ICA is a chef school that teaches young people how to be chefs. Apprentice Restaurant is the training restaurant. The student chefs get to cook & serve the public and it is all part of their practical training. The restaurant is run by head chef Hylton Espey and senior manager Johan Louw. They have both worked in some of the top restaurants in the country and have traveled the world.

We all decided to have the eggs florentine. It is soft poached eggs on a ricotta & spinach muffin with smoked salmon & delicious hollandaise sauce. Num num nummy!!! It WAS delicious!!!!

 I like the fact that you can pour your own hollandaise over!

Mmmmm I would have licked the plate if I could!! :o)

All of us had a great time!

The chef, Hylton came and had coffee with us.

Gummy the barista makes the BEST Cappuccino's!!

We then went off to Kaapzicht Wine Farm and tasted some of their delicious wines. Danie Steytler came and did the wine tasting for us!

It is the most beautiful farm!

Just nice down to earth people that makes great wine. Nothing is pretentious!

Danie with the Steytler wines - delicious and FULL of flavour!

We had a great day. Dylan was so well behaved and loved his first wine tasting! Thats my boy. :o)