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Lunch at Sababa
Walk into Sababa and you step onto a blank canvas with a riot of colour at its centre. This is the buffet, bright with salads; some stained pink with roasted beetroot juice, others seasoned with freshly squeezed lemon juice or strewn with generous quantities of fresh herbs. Lunch here is not just a celebration of food, it’s a celebration of life.
Sababa is a Cape Town kitchen and deli run by sisters Tal Smith and Nirit Saban. The Sea Point store is the original Sababa deli and catering HQ and in the City Bowl there is a deli with an eat-in option. The food has a distinctly Middle-Eastern slant, evidenced by the coconut-dusted date ball that comes with a latte, the sesame-flecked schnitzels and the smoothest, creamiest hummus (easily consumed by the tub) and by the bourekitas–dainty, domed pies containing cheese, spinach or silky, meltingly soft leeks.