Served At Sea Breeze

As with to Ritzi’s Restaurant one of the most stunning things about the Sea Breeze Café is its location; looking out over the waterfront and harbour the glass fronted café provides a beautiful view of blue seas, blue skies and a distant horizon of golden sand dunes making it a nice place to spend a lazy afternoon sipping cool drinks, feeling the sea breeze and watching the world go by.

The café itself is a large airy room with three walls of windows and one wall painted a light green giving the whole room a fresh feel, added to by the potted plants in the corners and the large orchids on each table. If Diaz Coffee Shop is epitomised by the warm dark aroma of coffee then Sea Breeze is a refreshing glass of orange juice, light, bright and healthy.

The menu offers a mixture of light breakfasts and lunches, toasted sandwiches and a small selection of sweet things as well as a range of cold drinks, milkshakes and coffees. Meals cost an average of around N$35 giving good value for money considering the mountain of food given on each plate and we feel it may just be the perfect place to stop for lunch after a hard mornings work.

Club Sandwich (triple toast with chicken, mayonnaise, bacon, cheese, tomato and lettuce. Served with chips): More is not always necessarily better. This is a fact that kills many club sandwiches which go overboard on the amount of filling. At Sea breeze however I find a well filled club sandwich that stays on the right side of that fine-line. Impressive was the freshness of the vegetables, something that, as we all know, is very hard to maintain in Lüderitz. The value for money score is high, a decent size lunch that is guaranteed to satisfy your hunger at a decent price.

Sea Breeze Burger (meat patty, fried onion, tomato, lettuce, fried mushroom, cheese and gherkins. Served with chips): A burger is one of those age old foods that has been done so many times and in so many different ways (the Cajun burger, the bacon burger, the royale with cheese and so on) that many restaurants spend large amounts of time and money struggling to come up with a new and exciting way to present a meat patty between two buns. However the Sea Breeze burger suggest that in fact the very best way to make a burger is in the good old traditional way; piled high with meat and fresh vegetables and smothered in a delicious blanket of melted cheese the meal pushes every button. The chips are crispy and lightly salted, a far cry from the soggy vinegar soaked delicacies that I’m used to in England, and my only criticism is that the meal is impossible to fit into your mouth in one go, making for a very cheesy, collapsed mess on my plate- delicious!

Iced Coffee: Sea Breeze Café is on of the few places that actually puts a scoop of ice-cream in their iced coffee. This certainly adds a nice flavour to the coffee. However a good ice coffee is hard to come by since coffee tends to loose it’s aroma when chilled. The ice coffee at Sea Breeze is tasty and certainly worth a try, but if you enjoy a cold drink with some ice cream in it, I would recommend the milkshakes rather than the iced coffee.

Chocolate Caramel Cake: Sea Breeze Café may not have the biggest selection of cakes in town but it does have a special cake of the day, made fresh every morning and different every day. On the day of our review the baked treat was a chocolate caramel cake. Served in huge slices this cake was soft and moist and the caramel topping thick and creamy. The taste was a little bland but the sheer quantity of food given certainly makes up for that fact.

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