From sophisticated and elegant fine dining and world class hospitality, to relaxed informal alfresco feasts, Summerfield Botanical Garden provides discerning guests with ideal venues for exclusive, intimate and private dining and offers patrons the perfect idyllic setting for special occasions and truly memorable events.
‘Champers, Tipple and Toasts’
The Red Feather Pool Bar, with its cheery informal ambiance and its ideal location right next to the cascading multi-level swimming pool, has our guests spoilt for choice when ordering their poolside refreshments. This well-stocked bar offers a warm and welcoming poolside experience, replete with delicious light snacks, refreshing beverages and fruity cocktails. Summerfield Boutique Hotel also features the delightfully entertaining and convivial Summer Terrace, providing the perfect social hub for guests gathering for cocktails, champagne, wine and entertainment. It is our guests number one stop for live music, tantalising snacks, high teas and our very own signature Summerfield ‘SumMarula Cocktail’ which uses ingredients particular to Swaziland, such as cane sugar, cane spirits and the smooth Marula fruit.
Relax in the comfortable Palm Cascades Cocktail Lounge for pre-dinner aperitifs, sit back and relax with a glass of chilled champagne as you feast on fresh oysters and sample the delicious array of cocktails.
Alternatively, enjoy a variety of signature cocktail drinks in the delightful privacy of our Lakeside Gazebos or lounge languidly in the cool shade of the Grand Pavilion which becomes the ideal retreat for sundowners or a cognac and cigar.
‘Delightfully Decadent Dining’
The Palm Cascades Restaurant is one of the very finest dining options in the country. Elegant fine dining with exceptional and discreetly personalized attention to detail, inspired cuisine and an extensive wine list and cocktail menu are all available for the enjoyment and delight of our discerning guests.
Treat yourself to sumptuous cuisine in this elegant, sophisticated, multi-level lakeside restaurant or enjoy the exclusivity and intimacy of our Private Dining Room or simply luxuriate in the refined luxury and ambiance of The Leopard Lounge and Billiard Room.
Whatever your wishes and desires, we can provide you with a beautiful venue suitable for and befitting of every special occasion and all this is complimented perfectly with breathtaking views to enhance your unforgettable Summerfield experience!
The Red Feather Pool Bar has become a popular meeting place for sports loving hotel guests particularly on important match days. The Red Feather provides guests with the perfect lively spot to take in a game of soccer, cricket or rugby viewed on the large Led HD television screen, whilst enjoying the company of friends.
The Red Feather pool bar boasts indoor and outdoor shaded seating as well as LED-HD satellite television for viewing your favorite sporting events and offers full service bar facilities from
11h00 till 24h00 midnight.
Seating options comprise an outdoor covered terrace as well as indoor air-conditioned seating including the option of reclining on the large generously proportioned comfortable wing-backed chairs. Large windows allow for views of the pool and gardens regardless of seating choice.
A subtropical climate encourages a thoroughly relaxed laid-back lifestyle.
As you lounge about on your comfortable chaise beneath the shade of the large umbrella, only the inviting sparkling blue swimming pool, with its gently cascading waterfall, can possibly tempt you into rising up out of your lazy slumber as it seduces your senses and gently beckons you to take a cool refreshing dip in its clear blue waters.
The Summer Terrace Bistro is the perfect place to begin the new day. Spend a leisurely and relaxed morning enjoying a scrumptious breakfast in sumptuous and grand style. Serve yourself from the generously laden continental breakfast buffet table. To be followed by your choice of a hot served breakfast chosen from our extensive a la carte menu. This is where sweet confections, petit fours and champagne breakfasts are quite simply ‘de rigueur’
is served to resident guests from
06:30-10:30 on regular weekdays
6:30-11:30 over weekends & Public Holiday
This charming venue, a favourite meeting place for guests, is perfect for casual dining, breakfast and a delicious selection confectionery. For the sweet-toothed an authentic, sumptuous traditional English high tea maybe provided on request for special occasions. This also serves as the perfect spot for simply catching up with friends over cocktails and bubbly.
The Summer Terrace is open from 6:30am-4:00pm.
This charming venue, a favourite meeting place for guests, is perfect for casual dining, serving a delicious selection of appetizers, tapas and pizzas. For the sweet-toothed an authentic, sumptuous traditional English high tea is served in the afternoon. This also serves as the perfect spot for simply catching up with friends over cocktails and bubbly.
Inspired Architecture
The African colonial architecture of our dining areas blend past with present in a free-form fantasy of tall glass windows and high vaulted ceilings.
Our passion and commitment is to produce beautifully crafted food that reflects the best seasonal, ethically and locally sourced ingredients. It’s a philosophy of which we are proud. We pick produce daily from our vegetable and herb garden and we are committed to seasonal farming, supporting free-range, pasture reared livestock and local farmers in Swaziland.
Our menu is an inspired combination of enduringly popular signature dishes and contemporary new creations garnered from around the world. The sumptuous culinary combination of tender, aged, smokehouse grills; succulent seafood; French, Continental; and Asian cuisine; paired with our carefully considered and curated fine wines; our impeccable, discreet, and attentive service; relaxed ambience and undeniable fine dining finesse and flair makes The Palm Cascades restaurant simply irresistible for any discerning gourmand.
Only the finest and freshest ingredients are used to prepare exceptional, yet simple and delicious cuisine; presented with flourish ensuring that our guests enjoy an extraordinary, sophisticated and elegant fine dining experience. Our wine list features a remarkable selection of the best estate wines sourced from the Southern African region.
Discover an exclusive, private and tailored celebration of taste,
For more intimate gatherings, we offer the intimacy and exclusivity of a Private Dining room as well as the use of the Leopard Lounge & billiard room where floor to ceiling windows frame the views of the shimmering lake and majestic mountain views. Summerfield remains an ideal venue for special family gatherings or discreet business dining.
World-class hospitality.
Enjoy a moment in the gardens that have been exclusively crafted for you. Let us tailor-make each unique space for you, our most discerning guest.
The beautifully landscaped gardens and surrounding lake make this the perfect setting for special occasions and truly memorable events. Upmarket, yet not intimidating…sophisticated, but not pretentious.
Enjoy a moment in the gardens exclusively crafted for you. Let us tailor each unique space for the most discerning guest.
The beautifully landscaped gardens and surrounding lakes make this the perfect setting for special occasions and truly memorable events. Upmarket, yet not intimidating…sophisticated, but not pretentious.
Reservations for specific dinning areas is required.
Monday – Sunday:
Dinner: 12h00 – 24h00
Midday (to) Midnight
The Grand Pavilion offers guests an oasis of tranquility where a delicious lunch or sunset cocktails may be enjoyed “alfresco”. After sunset the Grand Pavilion becomes the ideal milieu for pre-dinner aperitifs or a cognac and cigar.
Dinner served in the Grand Pavilion presents an ideal opportunity for dinner theatre where the gardens take center stage. This exquisite garden by night is suddenly transformed, as if by some strange and wonderful magic, into an ethereal wonderland and is a veritable feast for the eye as the artfully designed mood-lit gardens create the mystical ambiance of a fairytale and fantasy with reflected light bouncing, prancing, performing and dancing off the mirrored surface of the still waters of Palm Lake.