What could be better than butter… except more Butter!
Butter makes everything taste better… a truth Julia Child is famously quoted as saying, and to which many chefs down the generations attest. When sisters Aninke and Karien van Antwerpen opened their first all-day breakfast café in Loop Street, inspired by the New York brunch and cocktails scene, basing a whole menu around butter made perfect sense. It creates new textures, enhances flavours and adds complexity, they say… and so Butter found its theme and name. Now the sisters have opened a second restaurant in Sea Point where the same buttery goodness prevails.
Butter in Sea Point
Simply decorated in buttery hues, with snazzy minimalist light bulbs, and a plethora of potted plants, the new Butter fits perfectly into place on Sea Point’s Main Road. It’s an oasis of calm away from the traffic (and well worth walking up one block from your promenade perambulation), especially once you discover the secret courtyard right at the back, festooned with lights, edged by a green wall and furnished with space heaters in winter. In between sipping on our coffees, we were mesmerised by glimpses of paragliders soaring overhead.
All-day breakfasts
The menu of buttery breakfast, brunch and lunch favourites is the same at both branches. If you’re a genuine butter fiend go for the signature Butter menu for lavish slatherings and melting-down-the-chin bliss. In the Butter breakfast a light pillowey flapjack topped with a dollop of butter nestles among bacon, eggs, mushrooms and LA Farms sausage. Then there are towering flapjack stacks, scones with butter and cream and thickly buttered sourdough toast (sourdough bread and croissants come from Woodstock Bakery, all the rest is baked in house).
Or peruse the varied breakfast and lunch menu with just regular amounts of butter. We enjoyed the “bun with everything” (egg, bacon, hashbrown, melted cheddar, jalapenos and tomato jam), the juicy Butter burger, and the Fun Guy (buttery mushrooms, poached eggs and parmesan on a croissant). But the French Banana took the prize for blissful decadence: home-baked nutty banana bread turned into French toast with lashings of creme fraiche, crispy bacon and strawberries… heaven on a plate.
Cocktails for brunch
The cocktail menu speaks to the appeal of long and lazy weekend brunches flowing with mimosas, Bloody Marys and Bellinis… and letting the morning while away into afternoon before or after a walk along the Sea Point Promenade.
Good to know Both the Sea Point and the Loop Street branches have free wifi and are popular spots for out-of-office workdays. And the outside space is pet-friendly (for well-behaved pooches on leads). In summer the Sea Point opening hours will extend into late afternoon.
Opening times Monday – Friday, 8am – 4pm (Loop Street: Monday – Friday, 8am – 3pm)
Saturday + Sunday, 9pm – 3pm (Loop Street: Sunday, 9.30am – 2pm)
Contact 066 264 2697 (Sea Point), 071 336 8270 (Loop Street), hello@butterallday.com
Where to find it 176 Main Road, Sea Point, Cape Town
70 Loop Street, Cape Town
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