Mimosa Lodge

We booked into the lodge after a friendly greeting from the staff. We had booked to join them in their restaurant for their set 4 course menu and they advised us that pre-dinner drinks would be in the pub at 18:30, before dinner was served at 19:30. We duly arrived to find Welsh and Kiwi visitors who would be joining us for dinner. A complimentary glass of red muscadel turned into a few more and we ended up chatting merrily with everyone before we went off to dinner.

The menu was very interesting and unusual in some of the dishes served, but all worked well. It certainly was the first time I had borscht or a version thereof, and beetroot at that as well. We enjoyed a local chardonnay from a boutique winery which was very pleasant for only R65. The meal overall was very good and there certainly were oohs and aahs from the tourists as the food set in front of them was far superior to what they would eat at home for a similar price. We would certainly recommend the Mimosa Lodge and its restaurant as we feel they provide very good quality at a very reasonable price.

A really wonderful meal was followed by an evening of unusual entertainment as all the guests sidled off to the pub again and it was not long before the Welsh contingent asked us to sing our national anthem. Luckily we were assisted by the kitchen staff in singing as I am not sure that we would have had any guests left if they were exposed to my singing as part of a duet with my wife. We were of coarse accompanied from about halfway by the Welsh. Next up were the Kiwi's, again accompanied by the Welsh. And lastly it was the Welsh with great pride and fervour and for good measure they gave us a few more songs as well. It really is great to see people that enjoy singing this much and who are not naturally inhibited as we South Africans are.

They really provided us with an entertaining evening and we had some long discussions about living in the UK and how lucky we are to live here in SA. I must say I agree with them although unfortunately sometimes we fail to see the wood for the trees.