Holy crêpe, Cape Town’s Swan Café has been around for 5 years
Swan turn’s five! Read about it in Cape Town etc. You ...
Awards & Press
Inside Guide’s 40 Best Breakfast Spots in Cape Town, 2024
Luxebook’s 9 most beautiful cafés in the world, 2023
Inside Guide’s Top 200 Experiences in The Cape for 2022
Lifestyle Asia’s 10 most Instagrammable cafés in the world, 2022
Eat Out Magazine Top 500, 2 years in a row
Inside Guide Best Breakfast Spots in Cape Town 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
Restaurant & Bar Awards 2022 Best European Casual Dining Venue – Cape Town
Winner of South Africa Prestige Awards 2020/21 French Café of the Year
MEA Business Awards 2021 Cafe & Creperie of the Year – Cape Town
Wallpaper* magazine’s Best Coffee Shops for Design Lovers
FNB Coffee Magazine Awards 2019 nominee for Best New Café
RASA 2019 SA’s Top 100 Coffee Shop Awards nominee
Inside Guide Hottest New Restaurants in Cape Town 2018
Press
16th May 2023
11th May 2023Luxebook: 9 most beautiful cafés in the world
Swan Café rated in 9 most beautiful cafés in the world! Se...
27th February 202321 Coffee Shops in Cape Town to Work Remotely, to Escape Load Shedding
Swan features in Off to Wander’s 21 Coffee Shops in Ca...
10th February 2022The 40 Best Breakfast Spots in Cape Town, Inside Guide 2023
Swan features in Inside Guide’s 40 Best Breakfast Spot...
7th January 2022Inside Guide: The Hot List Summer 2022 – Top 200 Experiences
Inside Guide presents it’s first-ever print edition fo...
31st December 2021Lifestyle Asia: 10 most Instagrammable cafés around the world you’ll want to visit
Swan Café features in the 10 most Instagrammable cafés in ...
4th December 2020Inside Guide: Best Breakfast Spots in Cape Town
We’ve been selected by Inside Guide again for 2020 –...
1st October 2020Swan joins Restaurant Week 2020 – XXL Edition
It’s Restaurant Week XXL Edition! Restaurant week is a...
2nd September 2020Lifestyling.co.za: Jessica Rushmere: hatching a swan
Lifestyling.co.za features Jessica Rushmere, the owner of Sw...
1st April 2019Hong Kong magazine: Cape Town City of Cool
Swan Café features in Hong Kong magazine’s article on...
15th March 2019Daily Maverick: France conquers the world, for a week
The Daily Maverick on Swan Café featuring in the internati...
25th January 2019Eatsplorer: Bonjour Swan Café! Meet the Mother City’s first authentic Parisian Crêperie
Eatsplorer online platform and blog features Swan Café. Do ...
13th December 2018City Views: Step into Swan Café… Paris is always a good idea
The East City area in the central city, which we've dubbed t...
2nd September 2018Sunday Times Neighbourhood: Spread Your Wings
Sweet crêpes and savoury buckwheat galettes in Cape Town’...
24th August 2018Business Day: Swan Café – La crème de la crème
Fifteen years ago, ex-Parisian model Jessica Rushmere create...
21st August 2018Cape Grace: Swan Cafe Gives the East City Wings
The Cape Grace Blogger Experience features Swan Café. Previ...
20th August 2018Wallpaper* – The world’s best coffee shops for design lovers
Wallpaper* (UK) features Swan Café in The world’s best c...
1st August 2018Elle Decoration – Vive la Crêperie!
Bonjour!’ is the greeting you get from the waitron at Rush...
1st August 2018VISI: Vive la France: Swan Café
In a world with more than its fair share of sombrely stylish...
26th July 2018Designboom: Haldane Martin designs a traditional take on a contemporary crêperie
South African designer Haldane Martin reveals Swan Cafe, a t...
- 19th July 2018
Inside Guide: Swan Café in The Hottest New Restaurants in Cape Town 2018
The Inside Guide features Swan Café in its list of The Hot...
9th July 2018House & Leisure: What’s Happening in Harrington
Cape Town’s hip and happening Harrington Precinct is breat...
24th May 2018Eat Out: Cape Town’s first standalone Parisian-themed crêperie, Swan Café – reviewed
Swan Café is Cape Town’s first-ever standalone Parisian-t...