THE SPARTAN
Six years ago, Kobus van der Merwe quit his job as an online editor for a restaurant review website in Cape Town, to start afresh and do something more hands-on with food. He moved out of the city to the arid West Coast town of Paternoster to live in a beautiful yet spartan cottage deep in the veld.
What happened next was even more unusual. Rather than opening a fish and chip shop or a classic seafood restaurant – businesses that would have a decent chance of survival – he started his restaurant Oep ve Koep (Afrikaans for “Open for Business”). Unpretentious yet challenging, Oep ve Koep is a place radically different from anything that even foodie South Africans are generally accustomed, rapidly becoming a benchmark for modern, adventurous,
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