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Red Barn restaurant Knysna

Scrumptious memories are created where the Rheenendal farmlands meet the indigenous forests of Knysna – at The Red Barn Restaurant & Country store.

The newly renovated 20 year old Cape Cod style barn provides access to unique Garden Route art, fresh produce from nearby Knysna farms and delicious cuisine from our talented chef.


The restaurant menu is inspired by seasonal produce and features artisan meats and cheeses a variety of pickles, preserves & mayonnaise – all made on the premises or locally in Knysna. The wine list is affordable yet features spectacular wines such as Bramon Methode Cap Classique, the Bonnievale Vertex range and award winning Arabella wines.

The spectacular Garden Route venue is nestled among Macadamia nut orchards and overlooks a lily filled dam, which lends itself as a venue for special occasions – a true country style wedding; the end point of a lovely cycle through the Homtini mountain bike trail or a Millwood Forest hike; or just lazy long lunches with friends and family.

The healthy Way

Today making the simplest of grocery selections have become an intricate affair of ethical choices – free range, grain fed, cage free, slow food, organic, free trade and how many miles did it take an item to get from farm to plate! At The Red Barn restaurant you may order confidently with the knowledge that:

  • Our eggs & chickens are from happy, free range hens
  • The bacon is home-made in the traditional way – cured in rosemary & black pepper and smoked
  • Our bread is baked on the premises using stone ground unbleached flour
  • All the preserves are made from local Knysna producers
  • Our coffee is certified Free Trade (UZT) and Single Source of Origin (not blended) and is only from Africa
  • Where possible we buy our fruit & veggies from our local Rheenendal growers
  • All our charcuterie (meats) are made locally by artisan producers
  • We only use extra virgin olive oil – from the Karoo
  • Our olives are certified organic

Our food
  • Glen Faye Farm
  • Avalon Farm
  • Candlewood Farm
  • Champion Chix
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The immense talent of Hendrick le Roux of Glen Faye Farm can be tasted in every morsel of our delicious bacon – cured in rosemary & black pepper – it keeps people coming back for more. His charcuterie – Salami; Chourico; Blackstrap Molasses Ham & Parma Ham can be tasted in the very popular country lunch tapas menu.

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No country fare would be complete without a good chilli sauce – and Avalon Farm provides two very different yet delicious products. Ja’maica Me Hot sauce is well, hot but very tasty with a curry base – delicious with everything! Chilli Jammin starts off tasting of apricot jam and then bursts into wild chili flavour – great with fish and cheese platters. We stock both varieties in our country store.

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The delicious fresh gooseberries used in our Gooseberry Crumble and salads are grown on Candlewood farm along with persimmons. We stock homemade gooseberry jam in our country store.

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Champion Chix has been in operation for six years and raises certified free-range chickens and have an onsite abattoir. They have a wide variety of products including chicken sausage, supreme cuts and wonderfully plump whole birds.

Contact
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    The Red Barn Restaurant is situated at Fern Gully Farm, Rheenendal

    Road, Knysna, Garden Route, South Africa   (8km from N2 turn off)

    GPS coordinates: -33.978325, 22.96437

    Trading hours: 9am - 10pm Friday & Saturday, Sunday 9am - 5pm.

    Bookings & Reservations:  082 739 0962



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    Customers comments
  • Excellent coffee and chicken livers - top restaurant - Mike & Joyce, March '10
  • Your chef is a food alchemist! - Melissa & Steph, March '10
  • Great restaurant food & lovely presentation - George & Joy Bell, March '10
  • Wonderful restaurant ambience - great food! A super getaway! - Paulette & Jon Holst, March '10
  • The best food and welcome in the Garden Route! - Ken & Sandra Ridley, March '10.
  • A lovely way to spend a birthday breakfast. Relaxing and peaceful - Dawn Mc Master, March '10
  • The most outstanding feast for the senses. I'll be back for sure - Renata Frank, March '10
  • The Cycle Club's best cycle route and breakfast stop venue - Chris Nel, March '10
  • Red Barn restaurant pond view

    Mollusc to do...
    Ahead of the famous Oyster Festival Nancy Richards trips round Knysna's outskirts for some alternative attractions

    Along the N2 there's a turn-off to Rheenendal and the Red Barn, a new destination restaurant that's easy to find. From the smell of hot coffee and bacon, they're clearly in business. Local patronage is always a good sign and we're pleased to bump into Knysna's florist, Deepee of Ecozest, taking a break after a steady stream of late-season weddings. He strongly recommends the potted egg with chives and parmesan cheese. The bacon comes from nearby Glen Faye, a farm and artisan butcher. As we leave, macadamia farmer and co-owner of the barn Robert Legg arrives, looking only a little wistfully at his hijacked former-workshop-turned-Oyster-Festival-Hotspot. But you can't have it all....

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    People & Places

    THE RED BARN RESTAURANT AND STORE - Chantel Oosthuysen

    THE RED BARN IS THE first restaurant in Rheenendal and gets its name from the large American-style barn on Fern Gully farm that it occupies.

    There are some real treasures on the menu, inspired by the wealth of organic farms in the area, but the real magic of the place is that it seems to be where the locals meet, laugh and share their latest adventures - while making visitors feel at home. And isn't that what country life is all about?

    For those visitors who want to take a little bit of the local ambiance home with them, the store sells jams and pickles as well as arts and crafts from the Knysna area.

    Fern Gully - Self catering forest cabins

    • Fern Cabin
    • Owl Cabin
    • Hoopoe Cabin
    • Coucal Cabin
    • Porcupine Cabin
    fern forest cabin

    Fern Cabin has one bedroom with an en-suite shower and loo which can sleep an extra two people on a double sleeper-couch in the sitting-room. The veranda overlooks a lilly filled pond and views of the surrounding farms.

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    owl wood cabin

    Owl Cabin, the pioneer cabin is entirely built of wood, even to it’s shingled roof! It is decorated with the feel and natural tones of the forest and is a perfect romantic getaway for honeymooners.

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    Hoopoe Cabin, more spacious than Owl is decorated in the colours of the beautiful Hoopoe and it’s outdoor shower has an even more spectacular view through the tree tops and is frequently visited by a troop of vervet monkeys.

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    Coucal Cabin has two double bedrooms, one being a small cosy dormer room upstairs and a third bedroom with two single beds. It has a spacious living-room and open-plan kitchen.

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    Porcupine Cabin has a separate bedroom with an en-suite shower and loo and can sleep an extra two people on a double sleeper-couch in the sitting-room but preferably a 2 berth.

    fern gully accomodation website link

    Fern Cabin has one bedroom with an en-suite shower and loo which can sleep an extra two people on a double sleeper-couch in the sitting-room. The veranda overlooks a lilly filled pond and views of the surrounding farms.

    fern gully accomodation website link


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