Be careful when ordering for a vegan/vegetarians, it is a rip off! My family celebrated my birthday at Baia on 12 Dec 2025, and our waiter was Grant. My father is a vegetarian, and the options for him are incredibly limited, only around 2 or 3 on the menu. So he ordered a risotto for his main course. When it came, it was about the size of a cereal bowl, but he enjoyed it nonetheless. However, when the bill arrived, the risotto was labeled as “Seafood risotto” and cost over R400! (Keep in mind, my dad just got a vegetarian version of it, so just rice and sauce/cream). When we asked Grant, he said “He just works there and it’s not his fault” but gave a poor excuse that it’s essentially a seafood risotto just with no seafood!? This was NOT made clear to us when my dad placed the order, and is a blatant rip off and ruined an otherwise very lovely dinner.

Had a lovely seafood curry at Baia. Little expensive though

Baia has a beautiful setting being right in the middle of the V&A Waterfront and therefore upmarket location.

That being said, I have to say that I found the service to be very attentive and good but overall the food was incredibly mediocre and exorbitantly expensive for what we had.

I wont be returning again because I consider it a total rip-off and daylight robbery.

The food was exceptional. The scallops were juicy and sweet. But the highlight of my meal was the langoustine, definitely doing it again.

I wondered why before I ate at Baia there were no reviews displayed, now having eaten there tonight for the first time I think it could be due to most of the customers being tourists. For a large established restaurant the staff seemed to be tonight overwhelmed with the number of guests . The food was good but with wrong wine offered, wrong vegetables on one dish and the constant clearing of the table before the last guest has finished eating (a real no no at GOOD restaurants) we felt the whole of the evening was being served at the convenience of the restaurant so they could be away by 10pm. By the way we were told when we asked for a jug of tap water that Cape Town water was not good for drinking! Not even the view could compensate.