Paul Murray: Murray's Food Trails |

The Beaufort West Trail

It’s a town of hidden gems: Beaufort West.

The Primi Wharf Trail

The experience of eating at Primi does not begin with Primi Wharf at the Waterfront. It goes back much, much further, to the time a great genius decided it was time to make a move. He is Nino and the Nino legend lives on.

The Coffee Trail

Lourensford Estate, Somerset West – Home to the Coffee Roastery It’s in the beans! That’s the "Bible" when it comes to coffee. They (the beans) give it the crema, and the vuma. Coffee is the new energy, tea rooms are ...

The C Louis Leipoldt Trail

C Louis Leipoldt is associated with Afrikaans poetry. One thinks of classics such as "Oktobermaand", or "In die konsentrasiekamp". This polymath, cum universal cum Renaissance man was a fine chef. While studying medicine at ...

The Eland Trail

The roads in the Karoo are dusty Driving out into the open, breathing clean air … these are becoming newly discovered features of the ancient Karoo. The ...

The Mamma Roma Trail

When you dine at Mamma Roma’s you can surely say Mamma Mia! Italians would exclaim the cooking is like Mamma’s – made with care and really nice. Like good Catholics they do not believe in cutting back on the number of Babba ...