Omri at Morea Hotel — Eastern Mediterranean, Camps Bay
Omri is a beautifully designed restaurant at the newly opened Morea Hotel with views of swaying palms, rippling waves, and glorious sunsets. The varied menu bursts with Eastern Mediterranean flavours — from burrata with grapefruit ezme to lamb belly ribs with date molasses and sumac — but seafood is really their speciality, including chargrilled baby squid with harissa and chermoula-marinated seabass.
The cooking takes the Eastern Mediterranean tradition — the Israeli, Turkish, and Lebanese flavour profiles that have been reshaping Cape Town’s most exciting restaurant scene for the last five years — and applies it to the exceptional South African seafood of the Atlantic coast with a genuine creative intelligence.
The wine programme reflects the Eastern Mediterranean orientation: South African producers alongside the Israeli and Lebanese wines that the cooking’s culinary identity demands.
Omri is the most exciting new arrival in Camps Bay’s fine dining scene: the Eastern Mediterranean flavours, the Morea Hotel setting, and the seafood speciality combine to produce something that is both internationally sophisticated and specifically Cape Town.
Best Occasion: First Date
Eastern Mediterranean flavours, palms and waves, and the most exciting new dining room in Camps Bay: Omri at Morea Hotel is a first-date venue of genuine creative energy and natural beauty.
Best Occasion: Birthday
Morea Hotel views of swaying palms and glorious sunsets, Eastern Mediterranean creativity, and seafood specialities of genuine distinction: Omri provides a birthday dinner of the most Camps Bay energy.