You eat at Kaai 4 Braai with your feet in the sand beside Mossel Bay harbour, under wooden beams that frame the view of the water. The kitchen works over open fires — spitbraai, whole fish on the grid, potjiekos in cast-iron pots — and the bread is baked daily. The place is casual, the kind where you order at the counter and carry your own drinks back to the table.

The harbour wall breaks the waves just beyond the sand, close enough that you hear the water between bites. Families spread across the benches at midday; later, the firelight takes over as the sun drops behind the working boats. The spit turns slowly, the coals glow, and the sand stays underfoot until you leave.