Melfort

www.melfort.co
Visit us at our home at Marianne Wine Estate, Valley Road (just off the R44), Stellenbosch
Open Wednesday - Sunday.

Book a table to experience true farm to fork dining. ⭐️

12/08/2026

If you’ve been meaning to visit us, perhaps this is your sign. ⭐️

A long lunch overlooking the dam. A wander through the garden between courses. Geese appearing where they please. Little ones exploring the lawn. A bottle of wine opened, phones forgotten, and nowhere you particularly need to be for the next few hours.

This is the part of Melfort that is difficult to put on a menu.

We love the food, of course — but we love what happens around it even more. People slowing down. Families gathering. Friends staying longer than they planned. Tables becoming full of plates, glasses, stories and laughter.

Come hungry. Give yourself a few hours. We’ll take care of the rest.

Bookings are open through the link in our bio.

30/07/2026

The doors open again this Saturday, and we are so ready to welcome you back. 🌿
Can you feel our excitement? ☀️

While the kitchen and front of house team have been resting, we’ve been reminded of how much love lives in every corner of Melfort.

The grasses greeting you at our front door were gathered by the two of us — Tasmin and Nick. Preserved fynbos hangs above the dining room. Our tables were made by a local craftsman just down the road. The wooden bowls were shaped from fallen trees, the stone bowls from river rock, and many of the plates you eat from were handmade by local artisan.

Nothing was chosen simply to fill a space. Every piece carries a person, a place or a story — and together, they help Melfort feel like home.

We reopen for service this Saturday, 1 August, rested, recharged and incredibly excited to cook for you again.

Come back to the table. We’ve missed you.
Bookings are open through the link in our bio.

28/07/2026

Your table is waiting. 🌿
After our winter break, we’re so looking forward to welcoming you back.

Melfort reopens for service on Saturday 1 August, and we return feeling rested, recharged, and ready to serve.

The garden is alive again, the kitchen is warming up, and the table is set for long lunches, beautiful dinners, and the kind of meals that invite you to slow down and stay a little longer.

If you’ve been meaning to visit, we’d love to encourage you to book your seat soon. We are already filling up quickly, especially for the festive season, year-end gatherings, January bookings, and early 2027 dates.

Because of the demand, we’ll also be open Tuesday to Sunday from the beginning of November through to the end of March.

So whether you’d like to join us next week, celebrate something special at the end of the year, or plan ahead for summer, now is a good time to secure your table.

Bookings are open via the link in our bio.

26/06/2026

One last weekend before we slow down. 🌿

This is our final weekend of service before Melfort closes for our winter break throughout July.

If you’ve been meaning to visit, we’d love to welcome you.

Expect comforting seasonal food, warm fires, slow lunches and dinners, and a menu inspired by everything the season is offering us right now.

Food that encourages you to slow down, stay a little longer and enjoy the people around your table.

✨ Saturday is fully booked as we celebrate a beautiful wedding.
✨ We have only a handful of tables remaining this Friday and Sunday before we close for July.

We hope to see you before we take a little time to rest, dream and prepare for the season ahead.

05/06/2026

Before we close for our winter break in July, we’d love to welcome you to our table.

Tucked away between the vineyards of Marianne Wine Estate, Melfort is a place to slow down. Wander through the gardens, linger beside the dam, settle in by the fire, and share a seasonal meal with people you love.

Join us throughout June for our farm-to-fork set menu, or for one of our Winter Breakfast Feasts — available on Sundays only.

Open:
Friday – Lunch & Dinner
Saturday – Lunch & Dinner
Sunday – Breakfast Feast & Lunch

Whether it’s your first visit or your fiftieth, there’s something special about escaping the rush for a few hours and reconnecting around a shared table.

Bookings essential.

27/05/2026

⭐️ GIVEAWAY ⭐️
To celebrate the final stretch of the season before our winter break, we’re giving away a farm-to-fork feast for four at Melfort, paired with a bottle of Floreal 2010

A slow lunch, a beautiful bottle, and a table shared with people you love.
To enter:
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3. Share this post to your story
4. Tag the three friends you would bring with you

The winner will receive lunch for four people at Melfort, including one bottle of Floreal 2010.

Giveaway closes on Sunday, 7 June.

The winner will be announced on Monday, 8 June via our stories and contacted directly from this account only.

Good luck — we can’t wait to welcome one of you around our table. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Prize must be redeemed by June 2027, subject to availability.
Winner must be 18 years or older. No cash alternative. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram.

25/05/2026

winter breakfasts at melfort.

Every Sunday in June, we’ll be opening a little earlier for a seasonal winter breakfast series.

Each week, the menu will change slightly, guided by the season and what feels good in the colder months — but the feeling will stay the same: a slow Sunday morning, something warm from the kitchen, MCC with sorrel tonic on arrival, and a generous breakfast designed to be enjoyed around the table.

Our first menu includes:

Sourdough tartlet
smoked Franschhoek trout, whipped ricotta, fennel pollen

Whipped Jersey yoghurt
preserved mulberries, toasted buckwheat, seed brittle granola

Ancient grain English muffin
beef pastrami, nasturtium pesto, poached egg, hollandaise

Brown butter pain perdu
dulce de leche, winter citrus, cinnamon Jersey cream

Every Sunday in June
Seating from 9am – 10:30am
R425 per person
Bookings essential
Menu available on our website

14/05/2026

Our May menu has started to slowly find its rhythm. And, we are loving it.
More fire.
More smoke.
Slower cooking.
Meals designed to be shared around the table.

This season, part of the experience includes tableside braai’ing — bringing a little warmth, movement and theatre into the middle of the meal.

For me, some of the most relaxed and meaningful meals have always happened around a braai.
Family sharing food.
Someone cooking while everybody gathers around.
There’s something deeply South African about it.
Comforting. Familiar. Generous.

And I think that’s why we wanted to bring elements of that feeling into the restaurant — allowing our kitchen to meet your table a little more closely.

Not just through the food itself,
but through the people preparing it too.

Our chefs care deeply about what we’re building here, and there’s something special about watching that passion become part of the experience in real time.

As the weather cools down, we find ourselves leaning more and more into this way of eating.
Long lunches.
Red wine.
Smoke in the trees.
Food that asks you to slow down.

Winter at Melfort is beginning.

06/05/2026

As the valley settles into winter, we wanted to create something a little slower for midday at Melfort.

Our new Winter Lunch is built around nourishment, seasonality, and the quieter rhythm of the colder months — an experience designed for long afternoons, shared meals, and time spent around the table.

The experience begins with a kitchen snack, a healing tea made from carob, and our sourdough with smoked Jersey butter, Melfort honey & Boland cheese.

Guests are then invited to choose between a starter & main or a main & dessert, with dishes centred around ingredients such as Jerusalem artichoke, chakalaka, nettles, braised beef cheek, nasturtium umngqusho, preserved quince, pine needles and almonds.

And, as always at Melfort, there may be a few small gifts from the kitchen along the way.

Available Wednesday — Friday throughout winter.

R545 per person.

Reservations via the link in our bio.

03/02/2026

We’ve been nominated.
To be honest, this one caught us by surprise. We’ve poured so much of ourselves into Melfort — from hand-digging garden beds to building menus with intention, telling stories through our food, and creating a space that feels like home.

We opened quietly in September 2024 with no launch party, no big announcements, just a deep belief in what we were doing. So to be recognised like this less than two years later? It means a lot. .awards

From our little patch of land between the vines, thank you for seeing us. For supporting us. For trusting us.
We’re so grateful to be part of something bigger than ourselves.

— Tasmin, Nick & the Melfort team 🤍

Address

Stellenbosch

Website

http://www.melfort.co/

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