Cape Town Long Street
I remember the first time I have been to Cape Town I was looking for the city centre and someone told me that it is actually mainly Long street, Kloof street and a few streets around!
The Victorian-era buildings with wrought-iron balconies are beautiful and most of them have been converted into backpakers.
I let you imagine the ambience at night! It is groovy, dude!
What to do... Long street could easily take you a whole day to explore at a leisurely pace.
Pamper yourself at...
It is a city centre institution since 1929! It is a must do, just for the experience! Inside is a heated swimming pool, changing rooms and Turkish steam baths with dry-heat rooms. And I really advise you to book a massage afterwards. Women are admitted 8.30am to 7pm Monday and Thursday, 9am to 6pm Saturday and men 1pm to 7pm Tuesday, 9am to 7pm Wednesday and Friday and 8am to noon Sunday. Another great place to relax is
Happy Feet
where you can have reflexology. And guess what?! You can do it even after a good dinner as they are opened until 11pm! It is also fun to do with friends in the same room!
The Long street Bookshop sells second hand books which can be real treasures! For example, in the past, I have found books about Cape Town in the 1900s...so nice!
It is an African market where you will find lots of souvenirs to take home! If you are looking for better quality masks, sculptures, etc., I advise you to go to the Pan African market and don't forget to negociate the price!
They have an enormous selection of beads that will make your imagination go crazy to the point of sticking beads to your car like the Bead shop's owner did!
Watch a movie like in the old days! This 35 seater cinema plays movies outside on the rooftop of the Grand Daddy hotel in the middle of seven very well designed vintage Airstream trailers- that you can rent for accommodation! Check the forthcoming movies on
Pink Flamingo Cinema.
Where to eat and drink... There are plenty of places to eat and drink in Long Street and for any type of budgets. These are my favourite fine cuisine restaurants around Long Street: Bizerca is a reputable restaurant in Cape Town which will please your palate, I can assure you! You will find divine food combination such as braised pig’s trotter with seared scallop and truffle oil, grilled ostrich fillet with celeriac puree spinach crispy sweet pot and blue berry sauce or Raw Norwegian Salmon Salad with goat cheese, soy ginger and échalote dressing. Bon Appétit!
95 Keerom which originally originally housed the stables and slave quarters of the Company Gardens has become a very well known italian style restaurant
Carne SA
will make the meat lover more than happy with a choice of delicious South African meat such as mixed game skewer, ostrich, kudu and black wildebeest, ork neck braised in milk with cannelini bean puree and sauteed spinach or oven baked ostrich lasagne.
Where to sleep...
LONG STREET PHOTO DIAPORAMA
From Cape Town Long Street to Voila Cape Town
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What's amazing about Cape Town Long street is the unique atmosphere. It is a straight one way long street- the name could have not been better!- of more than 20 blocks (3.9 kilometres), leading to Kloof street where antique shops and streetwear boutiques, restaurants, bars, clubs make the tourists happy!
And amongst this kind of hippie vibe, you'll find several old mosques (Noor el Hameida Mosque dated from 1884) as Cape Town Long Street once formed the border of the Muslim
Long Street Baths
Second hand bookshops!
Greenmarket square
