Cape Town Nightlife

Down at the waterfront, Quay Four is a good bar, they have live music at weekends and do decent food. There's 2 other bars, Mitchells and Ferrymans which are more like proper pubs, and a dangerous spot called Cantina Tequila.. no prizes for guessing the results of a night out there! There's a German bar in the new section of the Waterfront, it's the 'clocktower' section the beer is very good from memory.

Balduci's is a nice restaurant and there is a really good seafood place but the name escapes me, it's at the back near Balduci's facing the sea and the mountain.
For a typical cheap South African Burgers/Steaks & Ribs go to the Spur, it's always full of familys but the food is very good for the price.
There's a great coffee shop called Mug & Bean which do the best Muffins.

Away from the waterfront Camps Bay is a great spot to visit, will cost about €10 in a cab from town. Beautiful beach and a strip of top class bars and restaurants, for a great Steak (assuming your a meat eater) Theo's is the best in CT. Blues is a very cool spot too for food and drinks, they have music, generally Jazz & Blues stuff.
Other good drinking holes are Caprice at the other end of the strip and a place called 'La Med' which is technically in Clifton (Suburb next to Camps Bay) great for Sunday afternoon drinks or sunset drinks on a Thursday/Friday night.
There's been a lot of development since I was living there (3 years ago) and I know there's loads more places on that strip now but it's a wealthy suburb so you'll be mixing with Cape Town's beautiful people wherever you end up!

There are lots of good spots elsewhere, Green Point main road has a lot of good bars, News Cafe, Bhudda Bar, Buena Vista & Bar Cubana and there is a great Pizza place on Sea Point Main Road called Postichinos both are short Taxi Rides from the Waterfront.
Sea point main road can get a bit rough after dark so don't decide to go for a wander down any side roads!

In Cape Town city centre there is long street which runs up to kloof street, these have become cool backpacker hangouts so there are lots of places around, on the safety aspect some people would be a bit scared of this area at night but it's generally very busy with young travellers so you shouldn't have any problems.... If you do brave it there's a great Thai place called Yindee's at the top of Kloof st and cool runnings & Joburg are 2 of the better bars on long street.

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