Since opening GALJOEN in June 2023, chef-restaurateurs Anouchka Horn and Neil Swart, who first made their mark on Cape Town’s culinary scene with Belly of the Beast, have launched a new collaborative project, SEEBAMBOES.
Situated on the mezzanine above GALJOEN, is this intimate restaurant for which they’ve partnered with Adél Hughes and Liebet Jooste, chef and artist respectively, to develop a tasting menu experience that riffs on gastronomic nostalgia in a contemporary reimagining of what ‘surf and turf’ can be. And what it should be: playful, celebratory, delicious.
With SEEBAMBOES, which translates directly from ‘sea bamboo’ (or Ecklonia maxima, a kelp that’s native to South Africa, grows up to 12m tall, and is a vital part of the Great African Seaforest visible around Cape Town), they demonstrate the broader creative…
