Lockdown has most of us safe at home, where we can spend our time working, cooking, studying, and, for many, worrying. There’s the occasional supermarket trip on our agenda, and other than that, none of us should be leaving the house. I find my impending supermarket trip quite daunting though and wish I didn’t have to go buy food. So if you’re feeling the same, here’s a list of all the essential food services that are operating during the Cape Town lockdown and that will deliver your essentials straight to your front door!
We’ve divided the below into small businesses and large retailers – all of which are here to help us get through this.
Small Businesses
Abalobi
Order traceable fresh seafood from small-scale fisheries in Cape Town via the Abalobi app.
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ORDER THROUGH ABALOBI MARKETPLACE APP – INFO HERE
Buy Fresh
Get organic fruits and veggies, meat, fish, dairy products, snacks, coffee, and more delivered straight to your door.
+27 21 286 6840 | hello@buyfresh.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Caught Online
If you’re craving fresh, delicious, and sustainable seafood, then Caught Online is where you’ll want to be heading. They offer next day delivery (Monday – Friday) and you can order from a whole range of seafood options, including fresh fish, shellfish, crumbed, smoked, cured, and sauces and spices.
+27 71 111 9074 or +27 83 937 3163 | Facebook | Instagram
Cool Bananas
Delivering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, grains, nuts, juices, and dairy products straight to your front door. Delivery to all areas in Cape Town.
+27 21 511 8054 | orders@cool-bananas.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Cure Deli
Cure Deli makes the most amazing bacon in Cape Town, as well as some other great meat products. They’ve launched a Shopfiy store for lockdown and offer weekly deliveries, so you can still get your hands on the best meat products out there. Did I mention that I’m obsessed with their bacon??? In addition to their usual goods, they’re also offering other locally produced products, including Richard Bosman charcuterie, botanical essences, and Foodology muesli, and more.
+27 72 240 8511 | orders@curedeli.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Daily Dish
Daily Dish delivers easy-to-follow recipes with pre-portioned ingredients to your doorstep every week. You can pick from up to 20 dishes a week. They’re delivering in all major cities: Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.
+27 79 726 8223 | hello@dailydish.co.za | Instagram
SHOP ONLINE
Deer Park Cafe
The Deer Park Deli part of the cafe delivers weekly dinners and deli goods.
+27 81 727 6816 | deerparkcafe@tiscali.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
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Dish Food & Social
Dish Food delivers ready-made yumminess. They’re doing a weekly menu, which includes a weekend item, that’ll be delivered on Fridays.
+27 21 447 0323 | info@dishfood.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Doorstep Dairyman
The Doorstep Dairman makes all your favourite dairy brands available to you. Shop milk, yoghurt, desserts, cream, and cheese at great prices and get everything delivered straight to your door.
+27 64 757 9142 | info@doorstepdairyman.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Faithful to Nature
Faithful to Nature supports local farmers by delivering fresh fruit and vegetables straight to your front door. The farm delivers to their warehouse on Wednesday mornings and you’ll get your order delivered to your doorstep by that afternoon. Orders need to be in by Tuesday, 9 am. Delivery only for Cape Town and areas immediately around Cape Town, with expansion coming soon.
+27 21 785 3268 | support@ftn.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants
Frankie Fenner is still delivering their high-quality fresh meats to your doorstep, so you don’t have to go without during lockdown.
+27 81 316 9252 | orders@ffmm.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Gabrielskloof
Gabrielskloof is delivering a variety of frozen meals, picnics, platters, and freshly baked treats.
+27 76 913 8930 | restaurant@gabrielskloof.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
CONTACT DIRECTLY FOR ORDERS & QUERIES
Grafted Organic
Grafted Organics delivers fresh local and organically-grown produce to your front door. They offer everything from vegetables, fruits, snacks, dairy, and breads. They also have free-range, grass-fed, and hormone- and antibiotic-free meats and meat products available.
+27 81 780 4618 | Facebook | Instagram
Green House Grocer
This is another small business operating during the lockdown, delivering all your organic groceries to your doorstep.
sarah@greenhousegrocer.co.za or michael@greenhousegrocer.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
CONTACT DIRECTLY TO ORDER
Guyall’s Kitchen
Superb frozen meals that are easy to prep and delicious to enjoy.
+27 83 556 4879 OR +27 84 844 1118 | info@guyallskitchen.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Home Groceries
Beautiful groceries delivered straight to your door. Weekly specials are available.
+27 21 551 3855 | shop@homegroceries.co.za | Facebook
Italian Deli Online
Delivering authentic Italian products straight to your door. Products on offer include pasta, flour, olive oil, coffee, biscuits, and a range of canned goods.
+27 21 422 1226 | info@italiandelionline.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme is available for delivery via UberEats from the V&A Waterfront and Eastgate. Also operating from select mini locations in established grocery retailers.
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La Cuccina
The restaurant and deli is closed but La Cuccina is still delivering a variety of meal options, including pasta, chicken, meats, vegan, and vegetarian. Delivery to Hout Bay, Llandudno, Camps Bay, Constantia, and Rondebosch.
+27 65 965 5220 | orders@lacuccina.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Langkuil Vleis
These are meat wholesalers that delivery the highest-quality grass-fed lamb meat straight to your doorstep. Run by brothers from a farming family in Overberg, they want to ensure that you still get your perfect braai meat during the lockdown.
+27 74 434 6268 | langkuil@icloud.com | Facebook | Instagram
CONTACT DIRECTLY TO ORDER
Las Paletas
Our favourite ice cream team is delivering their goodness during lockdown. Order online.
Loaves by Madame Baker
Get your freshly-baked artisanal bread delivered straight to your front door! Choose goodies like ciabatta, rye, sourdough, seed loaf, and croissants, as well as pantry and fresh items like marmalade, butter, and eggs.
+27 81 046 6664 | info@loaves.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
CONTACT DIRECTLY TO ORDER
Macro Mixes
Macro Mixes offers breakfast porridges and bake premixes that are macro-friendly, Banting-friendly, sugar-free, gluten-free, and high in protein. It’s guilt-free pleasure at its best. We love their brand-new compostable packaging.
(We recently tried out the Macro Mixes Baked Pudding)
Meat the Butcher
Get high-quality pork, lamb, steaks, and ribs delivered to your home.
+27 62 942 6909 | contact@meatthebutcher.co.za | Facebook
N1 Restaurant Suppliers
These guys usually deliver straight to restaurants but are delivering to the general public during the Cape Town lockdown. Choose from beef, lamb, mince, sausages, chicken, coffee, frozen fruit, burgers, potatoes, and frozen vegetables. Email your order or call in to place your order and make sure you get an EFT payment done before 16:00 the day before delivery.
+27 21 557 1510 | liezel@n1.co.za | Instagram
CONTACT DIRECTLY TO ORDER
Nomaste
These guys deliver seasonal organic goods to the Southern Suburbs, City Bowl, Western Seaboard, and select Northern Suburbs of Cape Town. You can choose from their Weekly Veg Bag or make up your own bag by selecting individual items. Great prices!
+27 82 545 2695 | tam@nomaste.co.za | Instagram
One Cart ZA
One Cart offers you the best from a range of stores, including Woolworths, Pick n Pay, Food Lover’s Market, Clicks, and Dis-Chem. You can browse per store or look at top-sellers, giving you the opportunity to shop at different supermarkets and stores to get all your essentials in one go.
orders@onecart.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Oranjezicht City Farm
The Oranjezicht City Farm has collaborated with UCOOK, Gays Dairy, and Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants to offer customers the Farmers Market Box, filled with fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy products, and meat.
+27 21 447 4424 | support@ucook.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
SHOP ONLINE
President Hotel
The President Hotel’s ‘The Base Pizza Delivery’ is now operating, bringing artisanal pizzas to Cape Town residents in Camps Bay, Bantry Bay, Fresnaye, and Sea Point. They also have an amazing Sunday lunch box offer, where you’ll get a delicious menu delivered for heat-up at home! Available from R550 for two people. More details online.
+27 66 038 4521 | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Raw and Roxy
This company is delivering Raw & Roxy veggie boxes, in addition to dishes of the day, fresh herbs, salad dressings, juices, and chocolate ganache cakes. Unfortunately, they didn’t get back to us in time with information on how the process works and we couldn’t find any information online but please reach out to them directly for more details.
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Raw Catering Co
Raw Catering Co has always had the goal of feeding people nutritiously and providing good, wholesome meals to everyone. They deliver frozen meals to your doorstep every Friday. Offerings include mains, vegan or vegetarian meals, soups, bread, quiches, pies, and more.
info@rawcateringco.com | Facebook | Instagram
CONTACT DIRECTLY TO ORDER
Raw Nutrition
Raw Nutrition is there to meet all your essential needs, delivering fresh fruit, veg, and dairy, as well as sweets and dry goods. Their selection is pretty epic and you’re guaranteed to find everything you need. They also work together with Help A Home so you can help feed families in Gugulethu.
+27 21 551 9705 | info@rawnutrition.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Shop 2 You Cape Town
Delivering fresh fruit and veg straight to your door, so you don’t have to leave the safety of your own home to eat well.
+27 82 432 9816 | info@shop2you.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Sir Fruit
Sir Fruit now offers a brand-new home delivery service, available in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, and Cape Town. You’ll get all the contact info on their website. Cape Town info listed below.
+27 71 893 1022 | shopcpt@sirfruit.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Sweetest Thing Patisserie
The Sweetest Thing Patisserie is delivering to customers in Simon’s Town and surrounding areas. Items on the delivery menu include croissants, bread, pies, quiches, tarts, cakes, and select ready-made meals.
+27 21 786 4200 | kalcock40@gmail.com | Facebook | Instagram
ORDER VIA TELEPHONE OR E-MAIL
Terra Madre
Terra Madre delivers farm-fresh goodness to your doorstep, including apples, pears, plums, vegetables, herbs, and cold-pressed juices. You can also choose from select dishes and pantry items.
+27 21 848 9626 or +27 82 328 1346 | nicole@terramadre.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Uber Coffee
The guys at Uber Coffee have assured us that they’re keeping their most loyal caffeine drinkers caffeinated and motivated during the lockdown period. They deliver premium freshly roasted coffee straight to your front door.
info@ubercoffee.co.za | Facebook | Instagram
Large Retailers
While supporting small businesses is great, don’t forget that your large supermarkets are all still open for business and they also offer delivery services. Note that while Spar supermarkets are still open, we haven’t included them below as they do not seem to offer delivery services.
Checkers
Checkers is operating as usual.
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Pick n Pay
Pick n Pay is operating as usual. Don’t forget that they’re open exclusively for pensioners (65+) every Wednesday between 07:00 – 08:00.
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Woolworths
Woolworths Food is operating as usual. Beauty, clothing, and other items are still available for order but will only be delivered after lockdown.
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Written by Benike Palfi
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Article Date: April 2020 | Last updated: 24 June
All information correct at time of publication. We do not accept any liability caused by errors, including, but not limited to, changes in price, menu, opening times, address, or other contact details.
