The intimate dining room offers an excellent table d'hote menu with good wholesome home cooking. The extensive menu features traditional dishes while an a-la-carte menu is also available and the wine cellar is generously stocked with a wide selection of wines to cater for every palate.

The food tends to the traditional and is both delicious and plentiful. Bread is freshly baked on the premises. Recipes have been handed down from cook to cook as jealously guarded secrets. The reputation of the pickled fish, for example, has even spread overseas. In his book “In Search of South Africa”, the British writer H.V. Morton was moved to mention Albertinia as a result of a meal at the hotel: “…and we plunged into that riot of eatables…”

In the days when the mail ships used to stop at Mossel Bay passengers were often transported to the hotel for a dinner. The pub lunches and our shady tea garden offer a lighter alternative for travellers.