Tables

The Litchfield Hills splurge worth planning a trip around — a farm-to-table New American restaurant fed by its own dairy farm next door, and an OpenTable Top-100-in-the-US pick.

A beloved Woodbury diner that happens to make some of the best donuts in the country — made from scratch and old-fashioned, and worth building a Litchfield Hills morning around.

A cash-only fish-and-chips shack right on Kalk Bay harbour where the boats unload out front and the snoek and calamari come fried, cheap, and fresh — one of the best-value meals on the Cape Peninsula.

The New York-style Jewish deli on Sea Point’s Regent Road where the bagels are slow-fermented and the pastrami is brined and braised for hours — a genuinely great cheap lunch that punches far above its bill. Come for the hot pastrami on rye.

A casual fine-dining restaurant inside Le Quartier Français where La Colombe’s young chefs cook a multi-course tasting menu at a fraction of Franschhoek’s top-tier prices — the smartest splurge meal in the valley.

Some of the best ice cream in the country — made on a working family farm in Oxford, a Yelp Top-100 scoop shop worth the short detour from the Litchfield Hills.

The Camps Bay seafood institution with no menu — you choose your fish from a vast iced display and they grill it to order. Book ahead, come hungry, and let the Mozambique prawns, a slab of grilled yellowtail, and the buzz do the talking.

The cozy, historic White Mountains classic for hearty New England comfort food after a day on the Kancamagus — and home of the legendary Nantucket Pie, a decadent lobster-and-seafood bake.

A multi-award-winning steampunk roastery in central Cape Town serving genuinely world-class coffee for the price of an ordinary cup — the cheapest five-star experience in the city. Order the Resurrection blend as a flat white.