One&Only Cape Town celebrates the festive season with a programme of dinners, lunches and parties at its V&A Waterfront resort. It begins with a Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday, 10 December, from 4pm to 8pm. Guests enjoy cocktails beneath a lit-up Christmas tree on the Vista Deck, while children meet Santa and watch live acts, and adults can try street food, local tapas and signature cocktails.
At Christmas, ROOI, the resort’s grill room, serves a dinner on 24 and 25 December from 6pm to 11pm, set to soulful Cape Jazz. The menu includes kudu bresaola, fired wagyu sirloin and apricot-stuffed turkey, with a roast cauliflower main for plant-based diners. On Christmas Day, ROOI also hosts a lunch from 12.30pm to 3.30pm, with home-baked breads, cold meats and smoked seafood, followed by plated mains such as walnut-stuffed turkey ballotine and masala-dusted kingklip, and desserts including a Christmas trifle and Black Forest yule log. Nobu offers a Christmas Omakase from 25 to 27 December, a multi-course Japanese-Peruvian dinner with beef tartare, Chilean sea bass and Wagyu tenderloin.
On New Year’s Eve, ROOI serves a five-course feast with Saldanha Bay oysters, dry-aged duck breast and lamb shank potjiekos, while Nobu offers an omakase or à la carte dinner, the resort’s most exclusive offering. Diners at either restaurant are invited to the New Year’s party at Vista Bar & Lounge. The programme closes with Nobu’s New Year’s lunch from 1 to 3 January, with a live DJ and signature cocktails. Reservations are made by email.