Basilico is an Italian restaurant in Newlands, Cape Town, where you eat wood-fired pizzas and homemade pastas with views of Table Mountain. The kitchen makes thin-crust pizzas in a wood-fired oven — toppings include bacon and blue cheese with pear, or brie with chicken and cranberry. Pastas range from fettuccine with mushrooms and smoked bacon to spaghetti with prawns in a tomato and cream sauce.

Lunch specials run until five in the afternoon, offering pasta, pizza or salads at a set price. The dining room is set over two floors, with a contemporary bar and modern kitchen. A corkage fee applies if you bring your own wine.

The restaurant looks out over Newlands and the mountain beyond. The wood-fired oven is the centre of the kitchen, baking pizzas to order throughout the day.