Mzoli's
Cape Town, South Africa
The read// why locals go
At Mzoli's in Gugulethu you pick your meat at the butchery counter and it goes straight onto the braai while you wait. What follows is less a restaurant service than a long township afternoon: trays of grilled meat on shared tables, cold beer, South African music loud enough to move the room, and a crowd of locals and visitors who end up mixed together by the end of it. Lunch is the sitting, around R100, all of it outdoors. It has been Gugulethu's best-known address for years without softening into something polished — the butchery is still a butchery and the queue is still part of it.
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NY 115, Gugulethu, 7750 — Cape Town
NY 115, Gugulethu, 7750 — Cape Town
The read// why locals go
At Mzoli's in Gugulethu you pick your meat at the butchery counter and it goes straight onto the braai while you wait. What follows is less a restaurant service than a long township afternoon: trays of grilled meat on shared tables, cold beer, South African music loud enough to move the room, and a crowd of locals and visitors who end up mixed together by the end of it. Lunch is the sitting, around R100, all of it outdoors. It has been Gugulethu's best-known address for years without softening into something polished — the butchery is still a butchery and the queue is still part of it.