Thorfynns Restaurant
Thorfynn’s Restaurant at Monkey Valley Resort is an insider tip for those who love getting out of the hectic city buzz and enjoying good food, good wine and especially that unique “Out of Africa” feeling that just seems to be inherent to Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort in general… and to this fine Noordhoek Cape Town Restaurant under relatively new management of Darren Byrne, in particular.
Darren – who you see on the photo taken by David Turnley above – has a huge passion for the hospitality industry and vast experience from having brought “The Brassbell” in Kalk Bay to fame and making it a favourite dining out destination as well as serving the best fish ‘n chips almost on the wave crests of the Atlantic Ocean.
I loved to go there… but now with Thorfynn’s Restaurant just down and up the road and with a mouth-watering and well-priced menu I just eat out at home… or almost :)
The Story of Thorfynns Restaurant
Thorfynn’s Restaurant has come a long way… here’s a bit of its history – the story of Thorfynn’s Restaurant:
The owner of Thorfynn’s Restaurant and developer of Monkey Valley, Judy Sole (born Topping), descends from the chiefs of an ancient Viking tribe.
In those early primitive days the chiefs were believed to be the sons of Gods, hence “Thorfynn”, meaning “son of Thor”, the God of thunder after whom the weekday “Thursday” is named. In the 9th Century, the Vikings – a seafaring nation – crossed the English Channel in longboats and invaded Britain – raping and pillaging.
One group, under “Thorfynn the Skullsplitter”, eventually conquered large tracts of North East England (in the Lancashire and Yorkshire area), where many of their descendants can still be found today).
One “Thorfynn” sailed across to what is now the Americas with “Lief the Lucky” and landed in Greenland (in those days green, not snow-covered).
Over the centuries, the English consonant changes resulted in the name going from Thorfynn to Torpin, Toppin and eventually to Topping. (Dick Turpin, the notorious highway man, is also said to be one of their descendants.)
The daughter of King Thorfynn, Matilda, married into the Scottish royal family in the 10th Century and, strangely enough, in the 20th Century, these two families again linked when Peter Topping, descendant of Thorfynn, married Elizabeth, descendant of the Royal House of Scotland. The resulting five children, born in Africa, are all in some way responsible for the development of Monkey Valley.
Today, Monkey Valley Resort is the home of and the financial engine behind environmental and socially uplifting projects as well as the Green Party of South Africa. Accordingly, what counts most in and around Monkey Valley is… that Nature rules in all its splendour and the Customer is King!
And as Judy Sole adds with a twinkle: Will patrons please note that raping and pillaging was discontinued in the 15th Century.
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I will tell you some more interesting details about the Vikings in my next post. . .
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