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Eat Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day: Romantic Specials & Dining Experiences

Eat Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day: Romantic Specials & Dining Experiences

Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to spoil your special someone with a romantic meal. No matter where you are, there’s a dreamy spot nearby, each with its own unique charm and specials to set the mood. From cosy candlelit dinners to indulgent multi-course feasts, Dineplan has rounded up some of the top Valentine’s Day offers to help you plan a date to remember.

Cape Town

NV-80 (Sea Point, Cape Town)

Price: R660 per person

Spend Valentine’s Day at NV-80 Grill & Bar and enjoy date night with an exclusive 3-course dinner designed for you and your special someone.

COY (V&A Waterfront, Cape Town)

Price: R1,500 per person

Enjoy a 7-course menu for lunch or dinner, paired with Creation’s wines. When you arrive, you’ll receive a glass of Creation Elation MCC, oysters, petit fours, a rose, and a red-is-the-colour-of-love R&R take-home cocktail.

Eat Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day: Romantic Specials & Dining Experiences

The Red Room by Chefs Warehouse (Gardens, Cape Town)

Price: R1,200 per person

This Valentine’s Day, treat your special someone to dinner at The Red Room at Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel. Enjoy a flavour-packed 4-course pan-Asian dinner and cocktail designed to impress by Chef Caroline Lamb.

Winelands & surrounds

Eat Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day: Romantic Specials & Dining Experiences

Baccō Estate (Paarl, Western Cape)

Price: R750 per person

Enjoy a welcome glass of Baccō Estate Chardonnay 2024 before tucking into a 3-course cicchetti-style tasteful, rich and indulgent menu, perfectly paired with Baccō wines. A date for the wine lovers, or those looking to expand their wine repertoire.

Johannesburg & surrounds

Alto 234 (Sandton, Johannesburg)

Price: R900 per person

A romantic evening awaits for the cosmopolitan couple at Alto 234! Treat that special someone to a glass of Champagne on arrival, a 3-course set menu, and a live performance. This rooftop bar is the highest building in Africa, be sure to enjoy romantic sunset or nighttime views.

Truffles on the Park (Sandton, Johannesburg)

Price: R750 per person

Make your reservation at Truffles on the Park for a romantic evening, including a welcome glass of Boschendal Brut Rosé, 3-course dinner, an amuse bouche, and a chocolate friandise to end on a sweet note.

Eat Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day: Romantic Specials & Dining Experiences

Kleinkaap Picnics (Centurion)

Price: upon enquiry

Spoil your date to a romantic picnic and a glass of wine in the forest at Kleinkaap. Intimate and thoughtfully curated, this outdoor experience makes a great daytime date.

Durban & surrounds

The LivingRoom at Summerhill (Cowies Hill, Pinetown)

Price: upon enquiry

A rare gem in Durban, The LivingRoom, warm, welcoming and intimate, usually only offers its Experience menu in the evenings, but is making a special exception on Valentine’s Day. Lunchtime lovers can now enjoy one of the country’s top dining destinations from 12h00, with last orders at 13h00.

Eat Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day: Romantic Specials & Dining Experiences

Grimaldi’s Cotswold Downs (Cotswold Downs Golf & Country Estate, Hillcrest)

Price: R395 or R850 per person

Grimaldi’s is bringing the romance this Valentine’s Day with two special 3-course set menus featuring Italian classics like pappardelle with lamb ragu and a lover’s surf and turf. Expect a romantic movie on the big screen, a DJ setting the mood, and plenty of good food to enjoy.

Not together this Valentine’s Day? Gift a Dineplan restaurant voucher to let them know you’re thinking of them or download the Dineplan app for quick, convenient reservations here.

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Actually, Home Food and Travel offers a lot more than just reviews of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.  We also visit great destinations, receive advice from interior designers and stop to smell the roses and taste the coffee.

Our team of journalists are seasoned travels and love visiting the myriad of exciting places around South Africa.  Whether it is off the beaten track or in the heart of the top attractions of the country, we’ll be there,

Home Food and Travel advice on finding the right accommodation

So what is the right accommodation?  Well more often than not, it’s your travel budget that dictates the type of accommodation that you choose. 

Expensive is not always better.  Our team at Home Food and Travel will tell you that they have camped in areas with limited ablutions and had a wonderful holiday.  They have also spent a night in a five star hotel only to be disappointed because their expectations exceeded the experience.

The reason for your travels will also affect your choice.  A business trip requires different amenities to a beach holiday. 

Our articles, reviews and experiences can certainly help you make your decision.

Restaurants with a good mix of service, food and ambiance

To my mind a great restaurant offers three things – excellent service, great food and a wonderful ambiance.  Of these, service is the most important. 

No matter that the food is delicious and the setting delightful, poor service can ruin the occasion.  However, great service combined with mediocre meal and a plane jane restaurant can still be a pleasant night out.

We’ve eaten in restaurants that are really dirty but with incredible food and couldn’t help but give a rave review.  We’ve also hardly noticed what we ate because the setting was just amazing.

However, the best restaurants come with the best of service, food and ambiance.

Spas are the ultimate relaxation aid

How do you know when you have had a great spa experience?  The answer, of course, is when you doze off on the treatment table. 

Well that’s our theory anyway.  It also doesn’t take a grand location with enormous facilities for a spa to be really good

A small, personal spa that is owner run can result in the best massage you have ever experienced.  However, the grand spas in five star hotels offer unsurpassed facilities in an environment that just makes the stress in your shoulders and neck melt away before you even finish checking in.

Adventure!

You don’t have to be an adrenaline junky to enjoy an exciting experience.  In fact, what are commonly termed adventure activities usually have incredibly high safety standards and unblemished safety records.

Ziplining, bungy jumping and shark cage diving are all very safe.  It’s just that our mind tells us we are craaazzzzyyyy to be doing this.

On the road to great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities

If you’re driving, be safe and make use of all the wonderful farm stalls that populate South Africa’s open roads.

If you overhear somebody asking a lot of questions or see someone taking photos of empty bedrooms chances are it’s one of our Home Food and Travel team members.

We’re out looking or those great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.

See you on the road!

 

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The tourism industry has been my bread and butter for most of my life.  It started with my incorporating a tour company in 1995 just as South Africa was opening to international tourism. I was the first qualified field guide in the Eastern Cape and later became the approved tour guide trainer for the region.  At various times I have owned a tourist information office, an advertising agency specializing in marketing tourism businesses,  sat on the board of directors of various tourism organisations and a been a publisher of travel magazines and websites.

Southern Africa is my home and the diversity of cultures,  scenery and fauna and flora are what make it so special.  I have a passion for exploring and have done so by driving, hiking, strolling, cycling, boating, sailing, diving and flying and know that their is still so much more to see.  

Along the way their are so many amazing places to stay and to eat and they are an integral part of what makes this such a special place. These private and public tourism enterprises play a huge part in ensuring that our natural environment remains intact.

I am a fervent conservationist.  I have served on the Board of Trustees of Bayworld and am currently a director of Bay Action Network Alliance. I believe that tourism is one of the few effective ways of protecting a dwindling natural heritage in the face of overpopulation and irresponsible and selfish exploitation of natural resources. Sadly conservation for conservation sake is as out of date as fax machines and typewriters.  Animals and conservation areas must make more money from tourism than they can from exploitation to ensure their long term survival.  It is for this reason that I love working with responsible tourism organizations around Southern Africa.

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