For months my family and I have been looking for a good place to have a quick dinner, nothing to fancy, just give us sharp service and yummy food, that’s all what we ask of Cape Town…
And this is it! Let me introduce you to Cafe MAO, the new Asian restaurant run by the charming (and Scottish) Robert and his team. When you sit down you are served before you can even say “chopsticks”. Start with drinks, if you are there in the afternoon I could recommend you get that exstra power-injection by ordering a smoothie of sorts. If we were all oblivious I would start at the ice-cream, but mind you, it is good for a cooler after all the flavours – so go for a starter or main. To be quite frank I had the Chilli Lime Beef and it burned the hell out of me (and I am a chilli-freak),but now I’m all good. Luckily our saviour came running with a few slices of lime on a plate for the family to suck on. It worked like a bomb! Don’t shy away now – there are other delicious dishes without a chilli-factor of three.
With Andy Warhol-inspired prints of Mao and Monroe, food that you can taste every flavour of (and I am not pulling your leg), you cannot do anything else but love going there.
On speaking to the man behind all this, it all cam out that Robert, being Scottish, was sent by the restaurant in Glasgow, Dublin and the likes, from Glasgow with love and an order: “Make us another Cafe MAO-baby in Cape Town!” And are we glad he did.
Jade (I’m new too … Thanks to Uno and Stefan for setting it up!)
