Napier, Western Cape · On the R316
Daily bread,
slow lunch.
A roadside padstal on the Napier–Bredasdorp road. Sourdough out of the oven by seven, breakfast through till lunch and a pantry full of what our neighbours grow.
Tuesday on the board
- Lamb-shank pie, mash and gravy: R165
- Beetroot, feta and walnut salad: R110
- Last loaves of seed sourdough out at 13:00
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About the padstal
A bakery,
a kitchen, a shop.
We opened on a Friday in March 2011 in a tin-roofed shed on the Bredasdorp road, with one oven, six tables and a hand-painted sign. Twelve years later we have three ovens, twenty-two tables and the sign needs repainting.
We bake bread every day except Sunday. We cook breakfast and lunch. We sell what our neighbours grow, make and bottle. That's the whole thing.
Anna & Boetie Pretorius
On the menu
A short menu, made well.
Breakfast through till eleven. Lunch from eleven till half past three. Bread, cake and coffee in between.
The shop
A pantry of
good things.
The shop is the front half of the padstal. Bread on the long counter, preserves and pickles on the shelves, cheese and butter in the cabinet, fresh produce in crates by the door.
Everything we sell is either made in our kitchen or by one of the six producers we work with, listed on the wall, named on the jar, all within an easy morning's drive of us.
- Sourdough, croissants, scones, rusks (daily)
- Preserves, chutneys, honey, oil
- Goat cheese, feta, butter, yoghurt
- Stone-milled flour and grains
- Fresh produce in season
Where it's from
Six neighbours, mostly.
We buy from six producers, every one of whom we know by name. Their flour, their milk, their lamb, their honey. We don't keep them a secret.
42 km north Lamb
Suurbraak Lamb Co.
A small fourth-generation lamb farm in the Suurbraak valley, where the sheep walk the same fynbos slopes their great-grandmothers walked.
34 km west Goat cheese, feta & yoghurt
De Kraal Dairy
Liesbet milks her thirty-eight goats herself, every morning at five. The cheese is made by hand in a small dairy behind the farmhouse.
38 km south Raw honey & beeswax
The Honey Bee Lady
Sarie keeps a hundred-odd hives across the cape fynbos belt (Elim, Bredasdorp, Napier) and bottles each apiary's honey separately so you can taste the place.
210 km north (but worth it) Olives & olive oil
Olijvenkop Olive Grove
A small grove of 4 200 trees on the slopes of the Kasteelberg. Cold-pressed within four hours of picking, bottled the same week, sold out by November.
Where we are
On the
Napier road.
Eight kilometres west of Napier on the R316 toward Bredasdorp. A long, low, white-painted building with a rusted-red roof and a row of cars out front.
- Cape Town 180 km
- Hermanus 52 km
- Bredasdorp 15 km
- Cape Agulhas beach 40 km
Regulars & passers-through
In their own words.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★“The lamb-shank pie is the best thing on the R316. We stop here every time we drive between Cape Town and the Cape Agulhas and we are never, ever the same after.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★“I buy three loaves of the seed sourdough every Friday and freeze two. Twelve weeks of beautiful bread, basically, because of these people.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★“A real padstal, with real food, run by people who give a damn. We finally have a Sunday roast we don't have to drive an hour for.”
Daily life
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