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Tucked away in the bustling Loop Street in Cape Town, Butter has quickly become a beloved spot for the city’s locals and visitors alike. The restaurant’s concept is simple, yet irresistibly nostalgic: butter and all-day breakfast! The idea behind Butter was born out of a love for the comforting ingredient and a desire to create a space that feels just like home. ‘Butter is our happy place and we want it to be for others too. We wanted to create something that …

What could be better than butter… except more Butter! Butter makes everything taste better… a truth Julia Child is famously quoted as saying, and to which many chefs down the generations attest. When sisters Aninke and Karien van Antwerpen opened their first all-day breakfast café in Loop Street, inspired by the New York brunch and cocktails scene, basing a whole menu around butter made perfect sense. It creates new textures, enhances flavours and adds complexity, they say… and so Butter found …

A cosy bistro-bar serving all-day breakfast in the innercity. American cook Julia Child famously said: “With enough butter, anything is good” – something sisters and owners of Butter, Aninke and Karien van Antwerpen, agree with wholeheartedly: butter does indeed make absolutely everything taste better. They go as far as to call butter the noblest of ingredients, saying it creates new textures, enhances flavours and adds complexity. So, why not create a whole menu around butter? Well, that’s exactly what they did. …

It believes everything, from flapjacks to burgers, is better with butter Butter is open: Tuesday to Friday, 8am - 3pm; Saturday, 9am - 3pm; Sunday, 10am - 2pmFind it: 70 Loop Street | Cape Town | City BowlPrice range: R18 - R130Contact Butter on: 082 853 1939, hello@butterallday.com, @butterallday_ct On summer’s days, you can eat brekkie outdoors at tables on the sidewalk. Image: Mark Schultz Article Courtesy Of: Simone Strydom @ Cape Town Magazine https://www.capetownmagazine.com/butter …

Look How Famous We Are We don’t know when it happened, no one does. But the first time butter was added to food the world changed forever. New textures were born, flavours were enhanced, and previously unimaginable complexity was created. It quickly became apparent that there was very little – if anything – that couldn’t be improved by the addition of butter. All of our clientele seems to agree. Look at what they have to say below. Can’t wait to pop in …