GOLD Restaurant is a vibrant, eclectic Pan-African experience in the heart of Cape Town. We offer a night of opulent feasting with a unique bouquet of live entertainment in a mystical African setting of trees and tents in an inner city courtyard steeped in ancient history and GOLD.
GOLD offers an opportunity to sample cuisine from our Cape Malay kitchen, as well as some well loved traditional African inspired dishes. The entire menu is served at the table as a set tasting menu in sharing and individual portions.
GOLD has a very proud association with Tamsin and Lannice Snyman who are our menu consultants and are responsible for all our recipes, research and staff training. It is a wonderful collaboration and we are privileged to have two of South Africa's finest foodies as part of GOLD. Our head chef, Emily, does justice to their beautiful food every day with her team of 15 ladies.
Over the past decade or so South African wines have emerged with startling speed and vigour to find an independent voice and a highly respected identity of its own. South Africans consume their wines with passion and pleasure and our wines continue to obtain recognition in international wine circles.
GOLD hosts an interactive drum circle every evening for 40 minutes with master facilitator, Eddie. Each participant is given their own djembe drum, and Eddie teaches you the different sounds and rhythms of the djembe.
Pulse of Mali is an eclectic African performance. Based on and inspired by the traditions of Malian performance, it draws influence with its performers from across Africa. In 2004 the GOLD of Africa Museum hosted an exhibition of Malian puppets, Patrimony made by master puppeteer Yaya Coulibaly. This exhibition planted the seeds for the current performance.
Influenced by the non-narrative, symbolic performance style of the Bamana people, Pulse of Mali works with the traditions of Bamana performance in a contemporary South African context.
The management and staff at GOLD Restaurant comprise of people from all over Africa - South Africa, Camaroon, Mali, Zambia, Zimbabwe - to name but a few. We believe that we are very fortunate - we work in a wonderful environment, have developed strong family ties with each other and regard GOLD as our home away from home. We have learnt from each other, and taught each other.
The unique Gold Museum entices visitors to experience the ancient, sometimes mystical relationship that exists between gold and the African continent through state-of-the-art visuals and artistic displays.
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