It is with a dreadfully sad heart that we had to make the decision a month ago to send our beloved rescue terrier, Jinja, across the Rainbow Bridge. She rapidly went downhill and investigations proved her to be sicker than we knew. She was only with us for 542 days and only 8 years old. […]
The damage to the R44 between Gordon’s Bay and Rooi Els over Heritage weekend (end September 2023) due to the ‘once in a 200 year storm’ was so severe that the road was closed up until just before Christmas. It opened with six ‘stop and go’ points in place which on the average day only […]
In June 2023 we, at Jack’,s have added to our building infrastructure by installing a solar / inverter / battery system to allow us to seamlessly roll through any loadshedding power outages – this will bring to our restaurant customers and Seaview Inn guests the best that Betty’s Bay can offer without interruption…… looking forward […]
Check out our vegetarian, pescatarian and vegan menu listed under the above ‘Restaurant’ tab…. A quirky take on many of our existing menu items and all because many believe we are what we eat…. so, be fresh, healthy and kind to animals x
Once again for the winter months we at Jack’s will be announcing each Friday our special for the weekend. Navigate to the menu page to see what the current weekends delight is…… And remember free delivery after 6h30pm in Betty’s Bay
We are thrilled to welcome KT Utility Forensics to our building. Keith and his staff will be taking up residency in our ground floor retail unit very soon. Interested in what they do? Well navigate to their website and see how they run energy management projects which include analysing and metering of electricity usage and […]
Last night our barometer fell to 5 degrees overnight. Since David started taking daily statistical notes of various the weather information we have available to us, in 2007 when he was living in Betty’s Bay on his own, this is THE coldest ever…. for us that is. Nestled up against the mountain for protection we […]
It is now exactly a year since fire ripped through Betty’s Bay destroying 41 houses and damaging countless others. The village is still in recovery and there are still remnants of buildings not yet attended to. The landscape is also in recovery but it will take many years for the trees and fynbos to regenerate. […]
We have long thought that the label B&B doesn’t really do justice to all that we offer here at Jack’s. We are also firmly established across several disciplines the hospitality business and so are taking the bold move to change the name of our accommodation offering to better describe what we are….. and so Jack’s […]
I have recently been introduced to the decedent world of flavoured lattes and I am hooked. How better to ward of the cold of a winter storm than with a hot and spicy Gingerbread latte topped with whipped cream? The sheer theatrical splendour of delivering a layered work of art to a table and being […]