The Cousins

21 February 2019

THE COUSINS

3b Barrack Street, Cape Town

Folks, we’ve discovered a hidden gem in Barrack Street, a pasta joint serving “the real Italian food,” called The Nephews? The Nieces? Something like that; a familial connection of sorts. 

Never mind that. They serve the first proper tagliatelle carbonara I’ve eaten in this town where it’s usually ham and litres of cream. This carbonara has egg folded through the pasta and the most superbly flavourful cured pork cheek. It’s simple, it’s robust and it’s sublime. 

The other pasta dishes are good too, with particular mention of the spinach pasta primavera with mint, basil and prawns, but this carbonara has warped my fragile little mind. In a good way.