We woke to beautiful blue skies & the outline of the moon, after breakfast & Richard finished the ironing we went for a walk along St.Augustine Road, we turned left with a view to heading towards a coffee shop a little outside of the main town but decided it was best to turn around. We had a coffee at the art gallery/ cafe & I tried to ask for a coffee in a smaller cup, lattes here seem to be 3/4 milk & 1/4 coffee, I’d hoped this would make the coffee a bit stronger, unfortunately not, although I did get less of the coffee flavoured hot milk. Time to decide if it’s worth keep trying to get a good coffee (except where we’ve found a roaster as well).
We continued our walk to Bek Bay.
We were booked at Wolfgat for 12.30pm, the restaurant is named after the caves on which it is perched, it’s an intimate 24 seat restaurant with a set menu, located in a 130 year old whitewashed fishermans cottage, the award winning chef Kobus Van Der Merwe uses hyper local produce which he often forages from the village (we’d seen him yesterday foraging).
We arrived at the restaurant & were given a table overlooking the beach, our menu was described as Strandveld food revisited- strandveld meaning beach vegetation.
The bread course was a great start with house made bread arriving with a pan of searing hot farm butter infused with bokkoms, salted dried mullet.
The menu included dune celery, a succulent & dune spinach (I’m hoping Richard will be able to find both of these in Melbourne they were delicious).

We had the matched wines, the Mother Rock White was amazing, like no wine we’d tasted before, it’s a natural wine, unfined & unfiltered, it poured cloudy like a cider, it was a blend of chenin blanc, viognier, semillon & grenache, it almost had a grapefruit juice mouthfeel although not the taste. The other interesting wine was a muscat that due to it skin contact the wine is dry & not sweet & a beautiful pink colour.
It was a fantastic experience, beautiful setting & such a treat to have the chef explain the dishes & why the wine match.