Good Thyme Cafe, Bellville

Garden-centre café with two play areas and a small animal farm with feeding bags. They do kids' parties; mostly outdoor seating, so best on dry days.

The party adds glitter tattoos, sand art and pottery painting to the play area and the farm animals, and there is a reptile park on the site. Parties run Saturdays and Sundays in one of two slots, 10am to 1pm or 2pm to 4:30pm, setup time included, and they take up to 15 children and 30 adults. None are booked for June, July or August. The party sits in the play park — not on the restaurant decks or inside the train — and the table next to the trampoline is held for the children. Bring your own cake for a R75 cakeage. When the adults skip the platters and pay for themselves, a 10% gratuity goes onto every split bill.