An award-winning hotel Babylonstoren, on an old farm in South Africa’s wine country, is featured by Paul Makovsky in Metropolis.
Babylonstoren—a seventeenth-century Cape Dutch farm that is one of the region’s oldest properties—is now a hotel, restaurant, and spa, about an hour’s drive from Cape Town.
Located in Drakensten Valley within the heart of South Africa’s wine country, the estate—until a decade ago—was exclusively a fruit farm. Then former magazine editor Karen Roos transformed it into a 250-hectare working fruit farm and luxury hotel, where guests can enjoy the pleasure of picking their own food.
An old cowshed has been converted into a milk-white restaurant, Babel (above), with a menu focused on the fruits and vegetables gathered daily from the garden and the region. Roos says, “We hope they’ll enjoy the mountains as much as our team does, eat a simple fresh dish at the restaurant, enjoy a sun-downer [cocktail] of wine, slip in between sheets of crisp linen, and drift away.”
See full article by Paul Makovsky in Metropolis: Eyes on Cape Town –
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