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Spit Braai in Durbanville
Book a spit braai in Durbanville from R150 a head for lamb. This is where the spit and the trailer are kept, so it is the shortest run we do, there is no travel to charge, and the chef arrives with margin in hand rather than exactly on time. Whole lamb, pork or chicken, garlic potatoes, rolls and the clear-up, carved to order at the spit.
Work out what your spit braai costs
R7 50050 guests × R150 a head for whole lamb — chef, equipment, gazebo, cooking, carving, set-up and clean-up included.
An estimate, not a quote. Minimum 25 guests. Salads (from R15 a head), extra service staff (R850 each) and cutlery and crockery (R15–R25 a head) go on top, and travel is free within 30km, then R500–R1 500 by distance. Nothing is sent until you tap through.
Spit braai catering in Durbanville
Durbanville is the shortest run we do, because the spit and the trailer are kept here — which in practice means the chef arrives with margin in hand rather than exactly on time, and a late change to the headcount is absorbed instead of negotiated. R150 per person for a whole lamb, with no travel fee and the chef on site for the whole five to seven hour cook.
If something has to come back off the vehicle it is a ten-minute round trip instead of an hour. Travel is measured from here: free within 30km, then R500–R1 500 by distance. Durbanville is simply the one place where we are already standing.
What it costs in Durbanville
| Guests | Lamb total | What arrives |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | R3 750 | Our minimum — one spit, one chef |
| 50 | R7 500 | One whole lamb, garlic potatoes, rolls, chef for the full cook |
| 100 | R15 000 | Two spits, staggered carving so the queue keeps moving |
| 200 | R30 000 | Two spits and a second chef |
Pork is R129 a head and chicken R116, with halaal-friendly at the same rates. Salads are R15 a head on top, and from Durbanville there is no travel to add.
The wine valley changes the running order
Durbanville Wine Valley sits on the doorstep — Durbanville Hills, Meerendal, Nitida, D'Aria and Altydgedacht — and an estate booking is not the same job as a garden booking. Estates set their own conditions for an open fire, and in the dry months that usually means a window for when it may be lit. Because the lighting time sets the carving time, and a whole lamb is a five to seven hour cook, that window decides the whole day's running order. We ask the venue before quoting rather than on the morning.
Gardens up on the Tygerberg side
Durbanville is high ground, and the properties along the ridge — Vierlanden, Sonstraal Heights, Welgevonden, Goedemoed — catch the south-easter across the Tygerberg in a way the lower suburbs do not. Wind strips heat off coals faster than it cooks anything, so an exposed garden gets the spit sited against a wall or a carport and about half an hour more on the clock. It is a planning question, not a problem.
Durbanville areas we cook in
Residential areas
- Amanda Glen
- Amandelrug
- Aurora
- Durbanville Central
- Durbanville Hills
- Durbanville Meadows
- Durbell
- Eversdal
- Eversdal Heights
- Goedemoed
- Graanendal
- Kenridge
- Kenridge Heights
- Langeberg Heights
- Langeberg Ridge
- Langeberg Village
- Morningstar
- Pinehurst
- Rosendal
- Sonstraal
- Sonstraal East
- Sonstraal Heights
- Stellenberg
- Uitzicht
- Vierlanden
- Vygeboom
Security and golf estates
- Durbanville Country Estate
- Uitzicht Estates
- Welgevonden Estate
Smallholdings and rural
- Durbanville Rural
Durbanville questions
Do you charge travel to Durbanville?
No. We are based here, so there is nothing to charge. R150 per person for lamb is the figure, plus any salads or extra staff you add.
Can you cook at a Durbanville wine estate?
Yes, and we have. Tell us which one when you enquire — the estate's own fire conditions and whether it runs a preferred-supplier list are the two things that actually decide the booking, and both are better settled before you have a quote in hand than a fortnight before the date.
What is the earliest you can be on site?
For a whole lamb the chef is usually lighting up seven hours before you want to carve. From Durbanville that is a normal morning rather than a pre-dawn start, which is part of why the lead times here are the easiest ones we quote.
Do you cover Eversdal, Sonstraal and Kenridge?
Yes — those and everything else listed above, at the same rate. If your street is not on the list, send the address and we will tell you straight away.
Booking one
Send the date, the headcount and the address. The quote comes back as a single per-person figure with nothing behind it — see spit braai prices for the full breakdown, or spit braai hire if you would rather cook it yourself. This page sits under spit braai in the Northern Suburbs, which covers the rest of the area, and under spit braai catering in Cape Town for how the service works everywhere else.