You eat at Neck & Deck in the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve, where the tables look out over the reserve and the kitchen serves breakfast, light meals, burgers, pizza and mains. The restaurant seats three hundred, with a wine cellar stocked with South African labels and a play area for children. It draws cyclists from the nearby bike park and families who come for the wildlife.

The reserve holds white rhinos, lions, buffalo and wild dogs, and the restaurant sits where you can sometimes see them between courses. Giraffe feeding happens here when it runs — check the reserve’s social media for dates — and the kitchen stays open through the day for guests who come off the game drives.

The wine cellar is the restaurant’s anchor, built to hold vintages that suit the long lunches this place was made for. The play area lets children move while parents sit at the table, and the kitchen keeps meals simple enough to work for both.