RSA Traditional cuisine

Cuisine of South Africa offers a huge variety of dishes, from the crocodile fillet and fried caterpillars to sheep heads baked. All of the above is considered very tasty. For those who do not dare to expose their stomachs to the test such unusual dishes, there are a myriad of local delicacies such as biltong (provyalennoe salted meat, cut into narrow strips), Boboto (an enhanced version of casseroles with meat) and boerevors (village sausages, which are made by hand and broil over an open fire). For those who are not willing to take risks, will approach the family menu, which includes everything from hamburgers to sushi and pasta in bolonezski. And you can just drink the water.

A striking example of the variety may be the fact that on one street of Johannesburg are a few Italian restaurants, two or three different Chinese, Japanese, Moroccan, French, Portuguese and Indian. Nearby you find the Congolese, Greek, and even Brazilian! The same is true with other cities in South Africa.

If you want to enjoy the national cuisine of South Africa, you have to try, such as restaurants specializing exclusively in the traditional kitchen, much less. Among the most famous - Gramadoelas in the center of Johannesburg, Vendi's Place in Soweto, the Africa Café in the heart of Cape Town and a number of smaller restaurants.

Fans can taste the huge variety of dried and roasted meat many inhabitants of South Africa. And sometimes, in posh restaurants can meet the unique fusion of north and south: marinated ostrich restaurant Sage in Pretoria and ravioli with ox tails under the saffron cream sauce at a restaurant in Bartholomew Clip Mount Hermon on the Cape west coast. The menu can be found crocodiles, antelopes, kudu and impala and even warthog, but here you will not find seagulls or penguins, which initially served food provided by the Dutch and Portuguese sailors who come to the South African coast.

One of the most famous restaurants with national African cuisine is the Carnivore Restaurant in the suburb of Johannesburg, situated near the hotel Misty Hill. Access to the restaurant placed in a lane under a thatched roof that runs through the gardens with native plants and spectacular water complexes.

Separately, it must be said about South African wine. For many Europeans and Americans the notion of "wine of the Black Continent" - a very strange phenomenon. In fact, the vineyards are spread throughout Africa. Algeria and Morocco producing wine for many decades, but not so long ago to Wine actively engaged in Zimbabwe and Kenya.

But it is on the southern tip of Cape climatic and topographic conditions are so coincide with similar conditions of traditional wine-producing countries that are receiving the best wine of the continent. Wine regions of South Africa stretches from the southernmost point of Africa - Cape needle, where they meet two oceans - before the semi-desert Karoo and Free State, vineyards cover a territory in more than 100 thousand hectares. It should be noted that the vineyards of South Africa, perhaps the most picturesque in the world and because of this (as well as the amazing taste of wine) so-called "wine tourism" is very prevalent in this country.

Wine History of South Africa goes to 350 years in history and is linked both with the traditions of "old wine": France, Germany and Italy, as well as "new wine": the U.S. and Australia. This South African wine is unique in that successfully combines these winemaking traditions. So do not miss a chance to taste local wines and please bring them to your friends, because it is - the best souvenir and a wonderful memory of South Africa.