In Cape Town, South Africa a new dining experience has been launched by Dine-with-a-local who are offering tourists the chance to sample some home cooked meals in the homes of local people.
The company has scouted for South Africans who love to entertain and cook and matched them up with tourists and visitors looking for more interaction with the local people and culture on their South African holiday. Visitors will be served a three-course dinner specialising in local South African dishes such as bobotie, braai, seafood, ostrich, venison, and local desserts.
The Dine-with-a-local company have committed to screening all hosts extremely carefully and guaranteed that they will have meet extremely high standards to be accepted into the programme.
At the moment the company is only offering the experience in Cape Town and its surrounding areas, such as the Winelands, Somerset West, the northern and southern suburbs, the Atlantic Seaboard and along the Cape Peninsula. There are of course plans afoot to expand the scheme further across South Africa.
This sounds like a fun idea and it would be a great chance to meet up with local people and maybe even make some new friends at the same time as well as experiencing a different culture and cuisine. Considering that we have turned into a nation of foodies and followers of Masterchef, the Great British Bake Off, Delia, Nigella, Jamie, Gordon et al. I think this idea may well spread to many more countries in future.
