On the road again: Farmhouse fare

Er... let's just call it a long break and leave it at that.

Went out over Constantia Nek to Hout Bay to meet Rob Walker, aspirant PBP and LEL rider and a gang of other hopefuls thinking about putting together a social team for this year's Double Century. Sadly, between the weather forecast and a few late withdrawals, they decided to try again another day. Well, they should have ignored the weather forecast for a start. They missed a PDG ride.
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In the hope of bumping into the Yellow Jersey Boys I trundled up Suikerbossie, but there was no sign of them. So... it was just me on my own. All right, not entirely on my own: I had the Southeaster for company. Which is why the final 50 km of the ride were significantly faster than the first 60 km. Er... it's possible that the mid-ride breakfast helped ... hence my focus on the Cape Farmhouse Restaurant.

Cape Farmhouse Restaurant: looking east from the intersection at the foot of Red Hill; curio sellers on the right.

There are a few things in its favour:

• It's well located at the bottom of one of my favourite climbs (Red Hill)
• At 9.30 in the morning, it's open for business (you'll wait until noon for  Scarborough's Camel Rock restaurant down the road to open up).
• There is plenty of outside seating under shade - in fact most of it seems to be outside.

It offers a pretty decent breakfast special of scrambled eggs on toast, bacon (my vegetarian alternative was a big brown mushroom), grilled tomato and coffee for R38. The service was friendly and fast, the food was ample and tasty and my Americano kick-started the second half of my ride. Recommended.

Welcome sight on a pretty lonely stretch of road...