Teez Lounge

About Teez Lounge

Just off Klipfontein Road in Guguletu, Cape Town, is Teez Lounge - a gem of a place known either as Teez Lounge, Restaurant and Butchery.

Did you know? Teez Lounge is a butchery in Gugulethu and the idea is simple. You choose your meat at the butchery; it gets braaied (barbecued) to perfection and is then served in colourful plastic containers with a spicy salsa, bean salad and the South African staple pap!

Despite the confusion over its name, Teez Lounge is principally a popular day and night spot that happens to be a butchery, but it is also a place to hang-out in the township on the outskirts of Cape Town, with a bit of a 'reputation' amongst locals for general drunkenness and disorderly behaviour.

Despite the merry making and general hubbub that is Teez Lounge, it is extremely popular. Celebs hang out here as do out-of-towners and international visitors, who wouldn't miss a chance to visit the place when in Cape Town.

People dress up to attend the bustling butchery, which is also a music venue and something of a fashion extravaganza – the girls all look beautiful and sport a variety of hair styles, and men sport fancy shoes and tight jeans - where you can bring your own alcohol, and people do, or buy it in a nearby liquor store.

The famous meat house sells meat, which you can then braai on no fewer than eight fires. Alongside the meat house is an open-air restaurant where there is usually a live band.

By late afternoon around 250 people swarm in here and the restaurant is a good place to sit and watch the happenings.

Teez Lounge was opened in 2003 by Mzoli Ngcawuzele, who got a start-up fund from the Development Bank of South Africa as part of their support of black-owned businesses. From selling meat informally from a garage, Teez Lounge (previously Mzoli's), by 2006, had become one of the most popular hangouts in Cape Town. For directions and additional info see "Feast & Party at Teez Lounge".