Having fun with a cool gray skies September time out and about with our visiting European besties, a call was taken that an unscheduled breakfast and low cease must be had between our visits to the Franschhoek Motor Museum and Babylonstoren. As luck would have it, some signage caught our eye as we have been zooming previous Simondium alongside the Franschhoek Street, signage that included the unmistakable brand of Ou Meul Bakkery – purveyors of precisely what we have been searching for!
Ou Meul Bakkery (or Outdated Mill Bakery for these of you not conversant in Afrikaans), is an eatery franchise that spawned a very good variety of years in the past in Riviersonderend, initially specializing within the manufacturing of puff pastry pies and sourdough breads. Because the years handed by, the bakery enterprise gained traction and recognition, their baked vary (and output) exploded, and the enterprise was finally franchised out with shops and the now ubiquitous brand popping up in just about each little ‘alongside the highway’ city, together with the likes of Riversdale, Stanford, Botriver, Melkbos, Robertson, and sure, Simondium.
Initially a bakery solely, Ou Meul rapidly transitioned into changing into a full service eatery, providing a full “sit down” menu (specializing in breakfast and light-weight lunches), complementing their bakery enterprise and generally, like within the case of the Simondium department that we discovered ourselves in, a full farm stall expertise. As you possibly can see from the photographs under, being located within the charming and historic Groot Drakenstein Handelshuis constructing, the Ou Meul Farmstall Simondium expertise is delightfully rustic, and on this occasion ticked all of the breakfast bins that our ravenous pack had in thoughts.
An surprising pretty little location value a cease if a sudden starvation pang ever jumps up and says whats up on the previous Franschhoek highway.
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