Kimberley Restaurants

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The Halfway Inn is located half way between Kimberley and neighbouring suburb of Beaconsfield, and legend has it that Cecil John Rhodes used to stop here for a beer on his way home. Being a man who didn't believe in wasting time (and who habitually enjoyed looking down on other people), he apparently insisted on being served his beer on horseback - hence the pub's logo, which features an uncharacteristically jolly Cecil swinging his tankard!

'The Half' has a very pleasant ambience and is a popular fixture on the Kimberley tourist route, as it offers pub grub as well as liquid refreshment. .

Favorite Dish: Being an adventurous eater who was, by now, well into the Rhodes spirit, I opted for the Rhodes special: perhaps my only mistake of an otherwise perfect day. I should have looked at the eclectic list of ingredients - a deep fried fillet steak stuffed with cream cheese and salami, served with a peppadew sauce - and asked myself how that lot could ever have come together in a happy union. More to the point, Rhodes seems to have been a very conventional soul, and I wouldn't have thought that he would have countenanced lending his name to any dish that flamboyant!!!

The resulting dish was a large, squat sausage-shaped offering that bore more than a passing resemblance to something that had passed through the intestine of a very large animal. When I stabbed it with my fork, it released a seemingly endless fountain of cream cheese, and I could feel my cholesterol levels soar at the mere spectacle!

In the pub's defence, the beer was delicious and icy cold!