If it depends on Bunte magazine, Germany’s largest selling lifestyle magazine, the Boerewors dishes sold at Gourmet Boerie are a memorable part of a visit to Cape Town!

Guiding visitors to Cape Town, last week’s article about our city is the last substantial one since the 2010 World Cup, when Cape Town was featured in Bunte regularly.  Cape Town has fallen off Bunte‘s travel radar,  despite Germany now being the largest source country for tourists to Cape Town.

Table Mountain, Camps Bay, and Robben Island are described as the tourist classics of Cape Town.  The article advises visitors to see the city from the top of the mountain, so that one can admire the view of the city centre, the other mountains, and the ocean.  Views from Lion’s Head and Chapman’s Peak are also praised, as is what is described as one of the longest coastal roads along the Atlantic Seaboard travelling south.

A number of ‘culinary delights‘ are recommended for eating and drinking. Good coffee is recommended at Origin, roasting its own coffees, and is said in the article to be in ‘Cape Quarters’, but obviously meaning De Waterkant!  Belthazar is recommended for fish or steak, the restaurant to be found in the ‘harbour’, the article states!  The culinary highlight  of Cape Town, according to the unnamed writer of the article, is Boerewors, served at ‘Barbeques’ and at Gourmet Boerie, that served at the latter being memorable!

The superficial article about Cape Town comes across as a very short and sweet, not well researched, article filling a space in the magazine.  One senses that the writer did not visit the city, but just hashed together the three paragraph article via  information from a Google search, or a past visitor’s recommendations!  Superficial or not, any free publicity for Cape Town is excellent news, especially given the magazine’s close to 4 million readership!

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com  Twitter: @WhaleCottage