Discover South African Cuisine, Braai & Market Style

We're excited to announce our food vendors for 2024:  Gregory's Grill, Hey Chop, & Nineveh! Plus an expanded selection of treats and non-alcoholic beverages by Grayhaven. Stop back by for more specifics as we get closer to the festival. In the meantime, read on if your curious about South African cuisine...

 From Boerewors to Bunny Chow - South African cuisine is as unique and eclectic as its culture. Like the US, South Africa is a melting pot of people, languages, traditions and food. African, Malaysian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Indian influences can be seen in many of the traditional dishes of South Africa.  

South African cuisine is more that just tradition though, it reflects ever evolving culture and contemporary sensibilities, modern understanding of health & wellness, and an increasing connection to global ideas and inspiration.  In many ways, South African food, both freshly prepared as well as packaged, embodies passion, uniqueness, creativity and innovation without the mass industrialization/commercialization that renders so much of the food in the US homogenized, highly processed and engineered.   

South African gourmet specialty foods - hot sauces, condiments, jams, olive oils, honey and the like are known for exceptional taste and complexity as well as superior quality of ingredients and wholesomeness (for lack of a better word, there's generally a shorter or absent list of chemical stabilizers, fillers, dyes, emulsifiers, anti-caking agents, etc.) 

The vibrant food culture of South Africa is second to none, from world class restaurants and trend-setting eateries to hip European-style food & farm markets, seaside restaurants, quaint rural inns, and the bustling street food scenes.  If you live for good food, South Africa needs to be on your bucket list.