It is with great excitement that I can inform everyone Geelbek has a new owner. Geelbek has been one of our favorite stops over the years and we are so excited about the new Chef/Owner. Sanparks has appointed someone with years of experience and the food to back him up. They will be taking over from the 1st of May 2018 and we will surely be going back. Good Luck and we are sure you will get Geelbek bact to its former glory.Please see below new contact information for Geelbek Restaurant www.geelbek.net email: admin@geelbek.info rosa@geelbek.info Tel: +27844067434

The Geelbek restaurant in the West Coast National Park has always been one of our favourite venues to visit as it lived up to all the accolades and descriptions of fine dining on the websites. It was therefore a horrendous shock to arrive there yesterday to find that it had been turned into a low-class cafeteria where the customers are treated with disdain. My husband got his food served in a tin plate. Eating utensils were either plastic knives and forks or thin wooden disposable ones (like ice cream sticks). You can buy cool drinks in tins, but don’t get classes. You have to queue for your food and beverages on the stoep, but there is no indication of what the available choices or prices are – except hake and chips (which wasn’t available) and calamari and chips. Upon arrival at the front of the queue you were given a choice of curry and rice, bobotie and yellow rice, cold meat and salad (a wilted green salad without dressing and potato salad) or two quiches. Customers were hurried along to make up their minds. If they were not standing ready to collect the food, they were hollered at. There were no waiters in sight to collect dirty plates and crockery. Patrons were told to sit outside, while the beautiful dining rooms, dressed with starched linen and proper cutlery, stood empty. It was a horrible experience – and extremely embarrassing as we were there as a group to celebrate my daughter’s birthday.

My rather tasty Easter Monday lunch at Geelbek was spoilt by inattentive service and all-round mediocrity.Waited 40 minutes before a drinks order was taken while staff were loudly dragging metal tables on the patio, yelling at each other, completely unfazed by our desperate attempts to get their attention. The manageress on duty seemed more interested in greeting her friends than sorting out the chaos which reigned in the restaurant.The wine list is informative and concise, but the excellent wine (Groote Post Chardonnay reserve) couldnt make up for the erratic service and disturbing staff behaviour.The lamb curry was excellent, although the rice was completely overcooked. My partner’s chicken pie had soggy pastry and lacked flavour.We left feeling deeply disappointed that such a beautiful, historic venue was used for such an uninspired, mediocre eatery.

An truley awsome experience. The best in the West Coast.