A Charming Winelands Setting for Valentine’s Day Dinner at Lievland Café

Lievland Dinner

Sunset-golden views, bubbly and canapés and a farm-fresh dinner.

With its Cape Dutch farmhouse, green lawns running down to a goose-dotted dam and vine-clad hills behind, Lievland Vineyards is a charmingly secluded spot in the Stellenbosch Winelands. The restaurant, Lievland Café, has become a go-to for family occasions, casual breakfasts and leisurely lunches. And it’s also a special spot on golden-sunset evenings as slanting sunlight bedecks the vineyards with an aura of romance… This Valentine’s Day, the restaurant is upping its romance cred, with bubbly, canapés and a three-course dinner.

Lievland Café Events

Valentine’s Day dinner

The well-conceived bistro-style menu showcases the best of local summer produce with a nod to the Mediterranean. For Valentine’s Day the team has created a sumptuous feast of flavours.

Lievland Café Valentine's Day

A glass of Lievland bubbly on arrival is accompanied by a succession of summer canapés: baguette toast with tapenade and goat’s milk cheese; smoked Overberg trout blinis with herbs and crème fraîche; mini free-range beef skewers with wholegrain mustard dipping sauce.

Lievland Cafe Menu

The three-course dinner kicks off with a lavish antipasto platter: fior di latte mozzarella, fresh figs, grilled courgettes, baked aubergine, shavings of Dalewood Huguenot cheese, roasted red onions and butternut with rocket and toasted pine nuts, and slow-fermented sourdough bread and lavash to scoop it all up.

For your main course there are three choices:

  • Parisian gnocchi with artichokes, fresh herbs, roast tomato, aubergine, lemon and Parmesan
  • West Coast black mussels and Cape linefish casserole with Mediterranean potatoes and garden vegetables
  • Slow-cooked shoulder of Calvinia lamb with roasted vegetables, potato gratin Dauphinois and thyme sauce

Lievland Cafe Dessert

Finish off on a sweet note with a granadilla mousse cake, Sachertorte, or a coffee macaron or a fresh berry and vanilla tart.

A delightfully relaxed, farm-chic setting for a Valentine’s spoil.

Cost R525 (glass of bubbly, canapés, 3-course dinner) + 12.5% added to bill for service
When Friday, 14 February 2025
Time from 6.30pm
Monday – Sunday, 8am – 4pm
Contact 021 879 7892, cafe@lievland.co.za
Where to find it Lievland Café, Lievland Vineyards, R44, Stellenbosch
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Time of publication: 20 January 2025