The story of Cape Town Fish Market is the story of creating a restaurant that strives to create a great experience for our customers. It is a restaurant built on fresh ingredients, a relaxing atmosphere, and, most of all, great-tasting seafood and sushi. But we didn’t create a world-class restaurant overnight. The Cape Town Fish Market you know and love today is the result of almost two decades of passion and hard work by CTFM’s founder, Douw Kr
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The story of Cape Town Fish Market is the story of creating a restaurant that strives to create a great experience for our customers. It is a restaurant built on fresh ingredients, a relaxing atmosphere, and, most of all, great-tasting seafood and sushi. But we didn’t create a world-class restaurant overnight. The Cape Town Fish Market you know and love today is the result of almost two decades of passion and hard work by CTFM’s founder, Douw Krugmann and his family, in partnership with the best franchise owners in South Africa. His wife, sons and daughter have all joined the family business and have played an integral role in making CTFM what it is today.
It all began in 1997, when Douw bought a small fresh fish restaurant in Cape Town’s famous V&A Waterfront. After operating a Spur Steak Ranch for 13 years, it was the next step in his lifelong quest to improve the restaurant experience in South Africa. The small restaurant happened to also sell fresh seafood for customers to take home, and, after experiencing how much better fresh fish tasted when compared to the frozen variety most other restaurants serve, the idea for Cape Town Fish Market was born.
The menu was created from scratch by Douw himself, and brought together the best of both South African and Japanese cuisine – from fish & chips to classic sashimi. His sons, Douw Jnr and Emil, have been involved in building the menu ever since, as have his wife and daughter, who are also involved in the family business at the Fat Fish deli next door to the CTFM in the V&A Waterfront. The menu you see today took years to create, and if you asked any member of the Krugmann family, they would say it’s still a work in progress. It was in creating this unique menu that CTFM became the first restaurant franchise to introduce the sushi conveyor belt to South Africa, and bring our customers an entirely new, convenient and exciting way to enjoy our sushi.
The food has always been the cornerstone of Cape Town Fish Market. Fresh fish just tastes better, and for the Krugmann family, that’s where it all began. It’s because of this passion for where each restaurant’s fish comes from and how it tastes that all of CTFM’s fish is served fresh and sourced sustainably. Douw has even travelled in person to Norway to source the best Norwegian salmon for CTFM (as our regular sushi-lovers will know). It’s one of the reasons CTFM is renowned for its outstanding sushi.
At Cape Town Fish Market, we’ve taken a restaurant, added a fresh seafood market, covered it in delicious sushi and fresh fish, and sprinkled it with style and attention to detail for seasoning. It’s a recipe that has been a fantastic success – not just for us, but most importantly for our customers. We love the fact that we have created a uniquely South African restaurant that’s truly world-class, but more than anything, we love serving you only the tastiest fish, sushi and seafood.
To this day, when it comes to seafood, it doesn’t get any fresher. So come and visit us, be our guest, and help us write the next chapter in our history.
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