The hills and coastline close to Durban are covered in sugar cane fields and banana tree plantations. The city is so close to being a tropical region, you will be hard-pressed to find a restaurant with either a fireplace or a winter menu. The metropolis is known as South Africa’s playground and with good reason for it has golden beaches that stretches forever and a focus on living outdoors that is unmatched anywhere in the country.

As the South African city located closest to India, Durban is synonymous with spices and among those spices curry is by far the one that has crossed the Indian ocean in the largest quantities over the centuries. The curry livened up the local mutton and poultry and somehow found its way into half a loaf of hollowed out white bread which became the tower of culinary delight known as a Durban Bunny Chow.    

You will find bunny chows served in establishments across town and finishing one might leave you full and satisfied for many hours. But the city is so much more than its spices and chows. In Dukkah on Florida Road they offer West Coast mussels brought in all the way from the West Coast before they are steamed in white wine, chorizo and tomato reduction and served, not in a hollowed-out loaf, but on a ciabatta.