Wow, wow wow wow. That pretty much sums up Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa in my book. I mean a 5 star luxury hotel overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with the Twelve Apostles Mountain range as its backdrop, if we’re just talking setting wise, you really can’t get better than this. Then add to that beautiful decor, great food, and incredible service & attention to detail which makes you feel like royalty from the moment you walk in, #bliss.
Leigh and I popped in for a visit this past Sunday eve to enjoy their dinner & a movie special. At just R350 pp you get a 3 course dinner in their beautiful Azure restaurant, followed by a movie in their awesome little movie theatre where they utterly spoil you with popcorn, sweets & milkshakes. How good a deal is that? The only things that are excluded are drinks & gratuity.
I absolutely loved the Azure restaurant’s elegant blue theme (inspired by the ocean of course, which you get to look out over thanks to the restaurant’s kick ass views).
Food wise, expect a top class fine dining experience. For us they kicked things off with a little free amuse-bouche (ooooh, someone’s been watching the food channel ) of pulled pork belly. Then for starters Leigh & I both couldn’t resist the sound of the Prawn Risotto with crayfish clarified bisque:
Left: pulled pork belly taster; Right: prawn risotto. Both amazing.
Then there was quite a bit of excitement as they brought us our palette cleanser – mango sorbet served next to a pot of foaming/bubbling (not sure about the correct term) dry ice:
For mains Leigh opted for their Cape Malay Chicken Curry served with star-aniseed basmati rice, sambals, warm butter roti and a poppadum. Apparently it’s one of their best sellers. I on the other hand, being a big lover of steak, went for the Springbok fillet with orange sweet potato, warm Puy lentil salad, red wine apple & oyster mushroom:
Left: Cape Malay Curry; Right: Springbok fillet
My fillet was cooked to perfection, the meat was lovely and all those different elements on the plate complemented it perfectly. I also had a taste of Leigh’s curry and I loved that it was a nice spicy curry with lots of flavour and get this, you get 9 different sambals!
Heading into dessert we were already feeling quite stuffed. So we opted for the lightest dessert option which is simply 3 scoops of creamy ice-cream:
Simple. But exactly what the doctor ordered at that point…
We had to keep in mind that we still had to keep space for all the movie treats right…
So after dinner they take you up to the movie cinema which is this cute 16 seater space with big comfy red seats, blankies (in case you get cold) and all. Here they let you loose on the sweets section and they bring you some freshly popped popcorn with a choice of milkshake or hot chocolate to drink.
So so cool…
We watched the 2007 Bruce Willis & Halle Berry movie, Perfect Stranger. But before you book you can just check out their movie schedule first to see what looks good. They have three dinner screenings daily at 17:30, 20:30 and 22:30. So you can also work around those options for your dinner reservation.
We for example started dinner at 7pm and then did the 8:30pm movie. I’d say the real key is to make sure you give yourself enough time to pace yourself and enjoy all the food on offer (we left there with HUGE pot bellies and we had to unbutton that top button on our jeans during the movie). I’d say we should have given ourselves probably about 30min more for dinner, just to take longer breaks in between courses. So a 6:30pm starting point would have been a little better. But we had Argus road closures to keep in mind.
Pot belly aside, I am going to give this experience a Miss K Kiss-o-Meter rating of:
To make your booking, contact their restaurant reservations on 021 437 9029 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Do it, do it now…
If you’re in the mood to splurge a little, they’ll also give you a special deal if you decide to spend the night. You’re looking at between approx. R4000 and R7000 (in total, not per person), depending on when you go, and this includes the room, the dinner, the movie with all snacks and a full English breakfast the next morning. Maybe a good option to spoil that special someone hey?
Oh and just for the record, they had no clue I was going to do a write up, I always prefer to keep my review plans to myself. So no special treatment was given to ensure a good review. They just seem to specialise in special treatment.