tuscany beach camps bay
wednesday dinner:i met NB in camps bay for a walk along the promenade. we were talking quite a bit, so walked from one side of camps bay to the other twice. the camps bay beach has an interesting new shape in the water - some sort of sandbank - which was most likely caused by the storm in cape town last week.
anyway, we were going to go to sand bar, and then decided to look at the menu's at the other side of the camps bay promenade, but decided to give summerville and blues and the usual restaurants a skip, and head back (walking back sure builds up an appetite), and decided to spend the night at tuscany beach.
tuscany beach is a restaurant, but as most cape town restaurants have these days, they also have a great cocktail menu. tuscany beach is inside and outside, so we decided to opt for the outside table so we could watch the passerby's (no eating is fully complete without some people watching!), and also to hear the waves of camps bay beach crashing every few minutes (camps bay beach doesn't usually have waves crashing, but they sure were last night).
anyway, after we had relaxed for a few minutes, i had a martini fruit cocktail, made from fresh apple juice and apple chunks, and a lot of alchohol, and NB had a strawberry daiquiri. the service was great, and the friendly waiter was totally understanding when we kept telling him that we weren't ready to order, as we were busy talking about a variety of subjects.
after some delicious brown and white bread (interesting to see tuscany beach serving both), i opted for the linefish catch of the day, which was the grilled salmon. although it was delicious, this is my only gripe of the evening, as the waiter said the chilli sauce was MILD, and it was anything but mild, with a kick every mouthful. lucky i like chilli sauce. the meal is accompanied by vegetables, and i was happy that tuscany beach was also happy to give me half chips / half potato, rather than a choice of one from the french fries, mash potato and rice. the vegetables of the day were tasty - creamed spinach and pumpkin (i was trying to work out whether it was pumpkin or butternut, but i've decided that it was pumpkin).
the cape salmon was great! and i accompanied the meal with a glass of cabernet sauvignon - i'm not sure which house white brand wine they brought me in the end, as there were 2 on the menu (3 but one was sold out - ahhhh - my first choice, the sole was also sold out). i'm not at the stage where i can tell a good cabernet sauvignon from a bad or mediocre one, so i can't tell if it was good. i still need to aquire a taste (which i'm starting to do with red wine). the first couple mouthfuls of the white wine tasted like vinegar, and only after forcing down a number of mouthfuls, did it start to taste anywhere near decent. NB had a sip of the white wine, and said it was good, (and she's more of a wine connosieur than me), so i'll have to just accept i know nothing about white wine.
NB had a penne pasta dish and said it was delicious.
i suppose tuscany beach should have turned on the heaters outside the restaurant, as it was getting a little chilly, but they didn't, and after a good meal, we decided to head for coffee to another restaurant - after intense debate we chose the planet bar at the mount nelson hotel which i've been wanting to go to for some time.
posted by JimMark31 @ 8:12 AM
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