Passport to Honey & Dora

 1 September 2023

 

HONEY & DORA

Café|LIFESTYLE|Bar

55 Prestwich Street, Cape Town

 

Eight days ago, I ate breakfast at Yumcious after applying for a new passport at my bank’s Green Point branch and this morning I ate breakfast at Honey & Dora before I went to collect the passport.  This system for passport application is highly efficient.

 

Now, if only the wife and I can find some exotic destination we can afford to go to.

 

Honey & Dora offers tables on two outdoor terraces either side of the front entrance, and in an L-shaped interior with mostly counter seating on the long end facing the windows and service counter, and with the  standard, mostly small, tables, in a larger space with banquette seating against the wall. The ambience is elegant, modern simplicity and there is plenty natural light because the entire frontage is glass.

 

The breakfast menu is also simple, with eggs Benedict, bears breakfast (the mini fry up), French toast,  free veg omelette, avocado egg toast, butternut squash protein pancakes, ”grown up PB & J toast” and overnight chia oats.

 

I like ordering the unusual items on a breakfast menu and today it was the butternut squash protein pancakes with Greek yoghurt, nut butter and granola (R70.)

 

The stack fell over just as I was about to photograph it. 

 

The pancakes were slightly disappointing in  that they were bready in texture, cumulatively too dry and not butternutty enough.  The good quantity of yoghurt and nut butter were vital as lubrication.  The pancakes weren’t horrendous but I doubt I’ll want to have then again.

 

My intention had been to finish off the meal with the vegan lemon tart but I was still hungry and went for the vegan avo eggrolls (R95) (part of the small plates menu) with sundried tomato, red onion and coriander, and a tamarind-cashew sauce that’s. described as a dipping sauce but it was presented as a schmear on the plate under the rolls.

 

The eggrolls were very delightful with light, thin, crisp pastry and a smooth, warm, yummy avocado filling, and a delicious, nutty, spicy sauce. 

Based on this experience, it would probably be well worthwhile investigating the small plate dishes.  The breakfast menu is functional, with no apparent wow factor on paper, unless the eggs Benedict dish is a superior offering.

 

The coffee was excellent and the service was friendly and efficient.  

 

The bill (with espresso and cappuccino) came to R221,00 before tip.

 

When I arrived at Honey & Dora, I was the only customer, and wondered why they bothered opening for breakfast, but from roughly 10h30 more patrons came in, so perhaps it’s a mid-morning kind of joint.