THE MOTHER CITY’S NEWEST FOOD HUB

Depending on who you ask, the area enclosed by Roeland, Canterbury, Caledon and Buitenkant streets in Cape Town should be called the East City Precinct, Zonnebloem, District Six or Lower Gardens. What most opinionated Capetonians do agree on, however, is that this former semi-industrial stretch is virtually unrecognisable from what it was just three or four years ago. Hailed as the new Woodstock, it’s now a hipster centre of independent design, media and IT start-ups, whose MacBook-toting creatives are sustained by an ever growing number of cool eateries, coffee haunts and watering holes.

1 THE ELECTRIC FOR FRESH JUICE AND INSTAGRAM OPPS APLENTY

Set in a former auto-electrical shop that burnt down, The Electric is part café, part event space, part shoot location. The new owners retained the soot-stained walls, raised the double-volume roof and worked in