The Kloof Street Walk

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Start at the top end of Kloof with coffee, early. Everything else on this route opens later than this does, so there is no sense arriving anywhere before it.

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Round onto Union Street while the baking is still out. Closes at five on a weekday and at two on a Saturday, which is why it sits this early and not later.

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Down to the record shop on Upper Long. Second-hand vinyl and the kind of stock that rewards an hour — but it opens Wednesday to Saturday only and shuts at four, so it is the stop that decides which day you do this walk.

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Back up onto Kloof proper. A contemporary gallery on a street mostly given over to eating, and the quietest twenty minutes on the route.

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Small room, short menu, no bookings for two. If the wait is long the walk carries on up the street and comes back — this is not a block where you queue with nothing to do.

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The Kloof Street institution, open later than almost anything near it. The pavement tables are the point; the people walking past are the entertainment.

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Over to Orange Street for the oldest independent cinema in the country. Check what is screening before you leave in the morning — the showtime is the one fixed point in this day.

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Finish at the old house with the olive tree growing through the middle of the room. Doors at five, live music most nights, and open until one — the only stop here that would rather you arrived late.