Durban’s festive feasting: Bunny chow joints you’ll crave

Staff Reporter

If Durban had an official festive-season love language, it would be the humble bunny chow. This hollowed-out bread loaf crammed with curry is designed for sharing and shameless finger licking.

Start where locals will tell you the pilgrimage begins: The legendary Gounden’s. It’s a no-frills, all-flavour stop that keeps drawing crowds for classic Durban-style curry-in-bread at 520 Umbilo Road. Once visited, you will return.

Next, slide into Glenwood for CaneCutters, which leans into the legend of the dish and proudly talks up its “world famous” bunny chow at 53 Helen Joseph Road (Davenport Road). Come hungry, leave satisfied.  

For an old-school Durban institution feel, go to Capsicum at the Britannia Hotel, a sit-down option when you want your bunny chow with a little more ceremony (and maybe a post-lunch wander). Find it at 1299 Umgeni Road.

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