Quest for Seafood

I woke up around 9am and it was bright and sunny. Some days here its like socal, where you have to wait until the afternoon for the clouds to burn off and the sun to really come out. The sun already out at 9am meant, clearly, that I just had to go to the beach.

After some texting (I'm sorry, SMS-ing, which takes so much longer to say), Lindsay and I met up at the super market, bought a French roll and some sun dried tomato dip for lunch and headed to the train station. We arrived at Muizenberg where we'd (attempted) surfing before. Last time there were tons of other surfers in the water, but this time almost no one. Knowing little about what make for "good" surfing, we decided to sit in the sand for a bit and watch. It was way windier than we expected, but it was warm whenever the wind calmed down for a minute.

Covered in sand and a little cold and a little hungry, after a while we got up and decide to go find a good seafood place. We walked around a little bit and mostly struck out. Then I suggested jumping back on the train and going further down the coast. We planned on going to Fish Hoek (fish in the name, sounds promising, right?). On the way, though, at Kalk Bay there was a three level seafood restaurant that was attached to the train station platform and boasted "ocean views" and "renouned seafood". Sounded like what we were looking for.

The first floor was the "nice" restaurant, that I assume wasn't open until dinner. We somewhat tip toed through, and then down some stairs found a casual restaurant that had live oysters in a tank at the entrance. Good sign. The restaurant was practically situated in the water, as if the restaurant itself were a pier. From where we sat along one of the edges I got (lightly) splashed twice. It was also an extremely rocky beach, with little sand, and a cement wall at the end above which the train tracks sat. The waves were bigger than at Muizenberg and a number of brave surfers were bobbing along. They'd catch a wave and ride it for a bit, but for obvious reasons turn off before too long they'd crash into rocks.

Ended up getting really good mussels, and I had calamari cajun style and Lindsay had the tuna of the day. They actually had creme brulee on the dessert menu, which I haven't seen here, so I was convinced to try it and was happy with that decision. There have been a number of places in Cape Town so far that I've been to, expecting good seafood and ended up with about three options, two of which were fried. All the food that day totally hit the spot.