The Africa Cafe was the absolute perfect place to go for our Welcome Dinner. The walls and light fixtures were created out of recycled materials, like glass wine bottles and aluminum can tops. The food was family style and it was out of this world. Their website is http://www.africacafe.co.za. Here is the menu in order of tastiness:
- Vetkoek: fried bread balls made out of rainbows and unicorns. These were like African donuts. Everyone agreed that this was the best dish. I would love to find a recipe online and try to replicate it using my brother's deep fryer.
- Mozanbican Sprout Salad: Though this was a simple salad of greens, sprouts, avocado, beets, and nuts, the dressing on top was crazy good. Will probably never have this again, but I can dream about it.
- Cassava Bread: almost like an asiago cheese bagel but flat.
- Malawi Mbatat Cheese and Sim Sim Balls: sweet potato and cheese balls fried with sesame seeds. These are not as good as the red bean and sesame balls at Whole Foods, but delish. Soft and warm. Gooey inside.
- Dhanya Dip: white yogurty dip with lots of stuff in it.
- Vegetable soup: flavored with seaweed, apparently. Very tasty. Did not resemble seaweed.
- Carrot Cake: meh.
- Xhosa Imfino Patties: like a fried spinach burger.
- Umngqusho: that "q" in the food is a click sound, fyi. Mix of samp and beans. Not memorable.
- Egypt Koshery: rice, lentil, and noodle salsa dish. Not terribly exciting.
- Tanzanian Mango Chicken (did not eat)
- Botswana Seswaa Masala (did not eat)
- Cape Malay Mussel Curry
After all the food, the waiter ladies walked from room to room singing and dancing and playing the drums. I watched their performance in four different rooms. I'm sure someone has this on video somewhere. Super highlight of the trip.
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