If you want to have a great lunch or tea experience, browse some antiques and objects d’art, all in the same place – you’d best head for Sophie’s Choice in Willowmore in the Klein Karoo, Eastern Cape. You will love the coffee shop for its delicious cappuccino and fresh scones that is always as light as a feather. The menu has a great variety with food freshly made (you might have to wait a little longer) and well worth the wait. You will especially love the elegance of the antique tables with their silver jugs of fresh roses. You might prefer to sit on the stoep among wrought iron chairs, pot plants and crystal chandeliers, to watch the passersby, or in the shady garden courtyard at the back, which could have come straight from a small town in France. But Sophie’s Choice is far more than a coffee shop, it’s an antique and object d’art palace. You will find well-worn leather chairs, a bureau polished to a fine sheen, a stack of leather-bound books shelved on an old ladder, even one or two elderly bicycles hung high on the walls with flowers in their baskets. Or, depending on what riches owner Sophia van der Merwe has unearthed recently, you may find fine christening dresses, dressmaker’s dummies, chandeliers, armoires, inlaid tables and a collection of teddy bears. You could almost think of it as a revolving art gallery, where the exhibits change from day to day but there’s always something fabulous urging you to browse and buy. Visiting Sophie’s Choice is an experience which will linger with you long after your visit. You’ll find Sophie’s Choice Coffee and Antiques Shop on the main road (Knysna Street), tel 044 923-1117. Courtesy of http://www.roxannereid.co.za/blog/3-reasons-to-visit-willowmore-in-the-karoo .
