This large estate combines gardens, lawns and cycling routes with restaurants and a seasonal weekend market. The Millhouse Kitchen has access to a children's play area, while the market adds food stalls, live music and an interactive fountain.Read more
Food
Yes · Restaurants, cafés & weekend market food
Hours
Fri 5–10pm · Sat & Sun 11–4pm · Market, seasonal
Booking
Check the market calendar · book restaurants directly
Play access R100 for 2 hours · children's pizza pairing R115
Ages
All ages · play access charged for ages 2–12
This historic estate combines daily tastings and dining with a bike park, pump track and children's play area. The weather-dependent family market adds food stalls, live atmosphere and changing children's sensory-play activities on Saturdays and Sundays.Read more
Food
Yes · Market food & estate dining
Can I see them?
Lawns and play areas surround De Blaauwe Kitchen
Play fee
R100 entry · bike park pass is 2 hours · play areas ages 2–12
The market is weather permitting and no pets or outside food are allowed. In the bike park, helmets are compulsory, closed shoes are needed on the pump track and under-18s need a signed indemnity. The bike park is closed on Mondays.
Hours
Estate: Mon–Sun 10–5pm · market Sat–Sun 9–5pm
Booking
Book De Blaauwe Kitchen directly · market is walk-in
A free-entry farmers' market in its purpose-built Granger Bay home, with more than 100 traders, fresh produce, baked goods and a huge choice of breakfast and lunch food. The new timber market hall is wheelchair-accessible and remains family- and dog-friendly.Read more
Setting
Indoor market hall & outdoor areas
Good to know
Pram-friendly · Wheelchair accessible
Hours
Wed 4–9:30pm · Sat 8–2:30pm · Sun 8:30–2:30pm · Wed except Jun–Jul
A free-entry indoor food and lifestyle market with more than 35 food stalls, daily live music and enough choice to solve the family problem of everyone wanting something different. It is open every day and pairs easily with a Sea Point Promenade walk.Read more
Setting
Indoor food and music market
Live music and televised sport can make evenings loud and busy; there is no children's play area.
Hours
Mon–Thu & Sun 8am–10pm · Fri & Sat 8am–11pm · Coffee from 8am · food from 11am
A Saturday market in the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, with over 50 pop-up stalls selling jewellery, crafts, clothing and more, plus live music. The Botanical Café is there for lunch or coffee, and there's a gift shop with botanical art and decor.Read more
Setting
Outdoor market in a botanical garden
The market runs weather permitting, and no pets are allowed.
Free entry · parking paid, opposite the Mill entrance
Ages
All ages
A weekend market in a converted apple warehouse with a wonderfully industrial, steampunk feel — high ceilings, exposed steel, and stalls spread over multiple levels. Food, local crafts, clothing, art and toys, live music, and lots of seating inside and out.
Setting
Indoor market hall in a converted warehouse, with outdoor seating
It gets very busy and loud when the train arrives, so early is better with small children. It's also about an hour from town, so a day-out listing rather than a local one — though the train itself is half the appeal for kids. The full market is the weekend; Wednesday and Friday evenings are a smaller set of food vendors and the bar, and the Steam Coffee Shop is open on weekdays 8:30–4pm.
Hours
Wed & Fri 4–8:30pm · Sat & Sun 9–4pm · closed Mon, Tue & Thu
A weekend market in a converted fish factory right on the Hout Bay harbour: food stalls, local makers, live music and long communal tables. Noisy and busy in the best way, and easy with children in tow — plenty to look at, and no one minds a bit of running around.
Setting
Indoor market in a converted fish factory, with harbour-side seating
Friday nights get properly loud with live music, so mornings or early afternoons are the better bet with little ones. No pets, apart from registered guide and support dogs.
Hours
Fri 9:30–9pm · Sat & Sun 9:30–5pm · closed Mon–Thu · public holidays 9:30–5pm
A small, unhurried market on Timour Hall Road with fresh produce, crafts and food stalls, live music from local artists, and a bar inside the main house (across a little bridge) with a pool table.Read more