The Lucky Store

Lucky Store is slap bang in the middle of the traditional ‘coloured’ working class suburb of Idas Valley, Stellenbosch. Its aim is to add food, flair and quality to the local cuisine and to offer honest, traditional, cape country cooking in an authentic community setting. The building was the very first general dealer in Idas Valley and seats only 35 people inside and another 35 outside on the stoep.

Lucky Store is the brain child of chef, Judy Badenhorst (previously of River Café, Constantia) and her winemaker-son, Adi Badenhorst. Chef, Marina Murray, is the inheritor of an age old culinary tradition that combines European and Malay flavours and applies it to the best of local produce. Her dishes include fish cakes, pumpkin cakes, bobotie, tripe, curries, snoek tart, chicken pies alongside nostalgic puds like sago pudding, malva pudding and apple pie and a delectable flourless chocolate.

Lucky Store has been featured in various magazines and newspapers, such as Taste, Leef, Weg, Insig, Fynproe and Sunday Times. We have been on Top Billing, Kwêla and Pasella, and captured the attention of the BBC Magazine, Olive’s November edition, as one of the top 15 restaurants to visit in the Western Cape, along with places such as Terroir, The Showroom and Reuben’s.

It’s all about the quality of the food and the experience. Lucky Store is two years young and going from strength to strength.

To quote Myrna Robins from the Cape Argus:
“Take one passionate and talented winemaker who’s crazy about good food. Add his gifted and enterpising mother, an expert on heritage Cape fare, along with the winemaker’s wife who is a dab hand at decor. Finish with an excellent cook who has been part of the family for 30 years. Bring to a simmer and let bubble gently. The result? A gastronomic venture with a name that’s going to be on everybody’s lips … The Lucky Store.”

Contact Details:

email: luckystore1@telkomsa.net

office: +27 21 88 72746 / 076 1683451 / 072 1454472

location: Corner of  Protea & Rustenburg, Stellenbosch, South Africa