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Komati Foods, They’re not wrong. In the space of 10 minutes half a dozen people strode purposefully through the door, including a woman on a buying trip for nostalgic friends overseas. She zeroed straight in on dried guava, mebos, a new line in a rooibos tea, bread spread and “the best strawberry jam in Cape Town”. No bigger than an outsized kiosk and something of an institution in Cape Town’s “lentil belt”, the shop is crammed with goodies from creative small-scale produce manufacturers, but the big line is nuts. Behind the counter the merry sound of tree-fresh local and imported nuts being weighed, bagged and sealed only just eclipses the whirr of the glass-fronted fridge packed with cheeses, fresh yoghurts, goat and soya milk. Fastest sellers are cashews, almonds and mangoes and enormously popular are their own, preservative-free bottled nut butters — almond, macadamia and peanut. But the shelves are full of surprises — wheat grass multi-nutritient supplement, pocket sized packs of sugared sun-dried strawberries — and there’s an overall tempting blended aroma of both freshly roasted nuts and coffee beans. A little more gourmet than health food, they cater for very determined taste here, a plus is that they’ll deliver any order over R150. — Nancy Richards Please click on this link to read more reviews: |