Your new must-try spot is The Milk Restaurant and Bar, Khayelitsha’s new three-storey hangout. Owned by 32-year-old Khayelitsha-born entrepreneur Siphelo Jalivane, The Milk Restaurant and Bar boasts a restaurant, lifestyle lounge and champagne lounge.

 

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Enjoy a glass of Krone, Pongracz, Veuve Clicquot and Moët & Chandon in the lifestyle lounge (a bar and lounge area meant for social gatherings) or the champagne lounge. Else head to the restaurant, where you can enjoy dishes like rump steak and chicken cordon bleu (or a full Continental breakfast, if you’re there for mimosa time!). For dessert, have your bubbly with a classic banana split, peach melba or diced chocolate brownies with chocolate ice cream and chocolate straws.

Rump steak served with vegetables and mash from The Milk Restaurant and Bar. Photo by Babalwa Memani, Onele Liwani and Zukisa Jay.

Siphelele has successfully gone from selling chicken on the sidewalk to opening his own three-storey restaurant in his community. Staying true to the young entrepreneur’s vision of uplifting and empowering the youth from his community, the staff of over 50 at The Milk Restaurant and Bar – including head chef Phumlani Nhini and assistant chefs Anelisa Mangcotywa and Olwethu Mavuso – are all young professionals from Khayelitsha.

 

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The Milk Restaurant and Bar is open Mondays to Sundays from 10am to 11pm.

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