Woodstock Exchange

Top choice in Cape Town


As well as good places to eat and drink, there's a fair amount of original retail at the Exchange, including the boutique Kingdom, which mixes fashion and accessories with interior design, and Ballo, which makes trendy eyewear from a combo of recycled paper and off-cut timber.

Also here are the atelier and showroom of Grandt Mason Originals, which uses luxurious fabrics from ends of rolls and swatch books to make one-off footwear; Chapel leather goods; and the factory shop for Honest Chocolate.


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