New Il Cappero
LIKE MAMA MADE
The décor and Barrack Street location may be modest, but the cooking appears to be solid. New Il Cappero restaurant in Cape Town’s CBD offers a buffet table of roasted peppers and involtini di melanzane to vitello tonnato for office workers at lunchtime, with à la carte options during the evenings. Roman-born Aldo Bezzicheri and his Sicilian wife Romano are behind the Sicilian-influenced menu of antipasti, pasta, fish and meats. Scout out characteristic elements such as fishballs in tomato sauce, the caper-infused Sicilian potatoes or the aubergine and tomato pasta Norma sprinkled with salted, dried ricotta. The couple are giving Cape Town a go after years of spreading the duties as onboard chef and captain respectively on luxury yachts. Now she cooks and he serves. “If I go behind in the kitchen, be many problems,” shrugs Aldo of the happy arrangement.
3 Barrack Street, Cape Town; tel 021 461 3168.
