Guidebook for Johannesburg
Food Scene
Great place for coffee, meetings, breakfast, lunch and dinner some evenings. Charming owner and staff.
28 locals recommend
Croft & co
66 Tyrone AveGreat place for coffee, meetings, breakfast, lunch and dinner some evenings. Charming owner and staff.
the perfect cup
29 Tyrone AveLovely coffee shop and roastery. Good for breakfast and lunch as well as meetings.
Franco's Pizzeria & Trattoria
54 Tyrone AveGood neighborhood Italian restaurant
Taste Of Punjab, Parkview
60 Tyrone AveGood value delicious Indian food - eat in or take away.
My Bread & Butter
66 Tyrone AveGreat place to work and eat.
Everything Else
Mays Chemists Parkview
60 Tyrone AveFriendly chemist with a dry cleaning depot inside.
South African/African arts and crafts gifts and household accessories made from beads and recycled products.
19 locals recommend
Art Africa
62 Tyrone AvenueSouth African/African arts and crafts gifts and household accessories made from beads and recycled products.
For all your fruit and veg needs, health foods, ice-cream, fresh flowers and more.
15 locals recommend
Tyrone Fruiterers
56 Tyrone AveFor all your fruit and veg needs, health foods, ice-cream, fresh flowers and more.
The Mask Skin & Body Clinic
60 Tyrone AveFacials, manicures, body treatments etc
Shopping
PostNet Parkview
54 Tyrone AveFriendly service - courier, printing, computers, stationery
Solly Kramers
Bottle store with a good selection of wine
Love Books
53 Rustenburg RdGreat independent book shop with adjoining cafe
The most established precinct on the edge of downtown Joburg, 44 Stanley is a mixed use development that fuses downtown urbanism with a subtle sophistication. A mix of carefully-curated, bespoke stores and independent restaurants gives the centre an authenticity that runs through eating, drinking, shopping, working and living experiences. Shady arcades and green courtyards between what was once a series of industrial 1930's buildings make this a unique Johannesburg space. https://www.44stanley.co.za
39 locals recommend
44 Stanley
44 Stanley AveThe most established precinct on the edge of downtown Joburg, 44 Stanley is a mixed use development that fuses downtown urbanism with a subtle sophistication. A mix of carefully-curated, bespoke stores and independent restaurants gives the centre an authenticity that runs through eating, drinking, shopping, working and living experiences. Shady arcades and green courtyards between what was once a series of industrial 1930's buildings make this a unique Johannesburg space. https://www.44stanley.co.za
Parks & Nature
Zoo Lake
Good for walking
Johannesburg Zoo
Jellicoe AvenueMelville Koppies Nature Reserve
4 Judith RdArts & Culture
Wits Art Museum is home to an extraordinary collection of African art, including contemporary and historical art from South Africa and art from West and Central Africa.
The Museum is one of Johannesburg's premier tourist attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. It is part of the Wits University Cultural Precinct, just three blocks from Nelson Mandela Bridge. WAM is in the hip, regenerating area of Braamfontein, which is also home to many students, interesting shops and places to eat. The WAM Cafe is a fun place to meet friends and enjoy delicious food and coffee.
49 locals recommend
Wits Art Museum
Bertha StreetWits Art Museum is home to an extraordinary collection of African art, including contemporary and historical art from South Africa and art from West and Central Africa.
The Museum is one of Johannesburg's premier tourist attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. It is part of the Wits University Cultural Precinct, just three blocks from Nelson Mandela Bridge. WAM is in the hip, regenerating area of Braamfontein, which is also home to many students, interesting shops and places to eat. The WAM Cafe is a fun place to meet friends and enjoy delicious food and coffee.
The Apartheid Museum is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story.
391 locals recommend
Apartheid Museum
The Apartheid Museum is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story.
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre seeks to raise awareness of the evils of genocide with a particular focus on the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; to serve as a memorial to the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, all victims of Nazi Germany and the estimated 800,000 Tutsi victims of the Genocide in Rwanda; and to teach about the consequences of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, homophobia and xenophobia and the dangers of indifference, apathy, and silence to freedom and democracy.
Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
1 Duncombe RdThe Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre seeks to raise awareness of the evils of genocide with a particular focus on the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; to serve as a memorial to the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, all victims of Nazi Germany and the estimated 800,000 Tutsi victims of the Genocide in Rwanda; and to teach about the consequences of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, homophobia and xenophobia and the dangers of indifference, apathy, and silence to freedom and democracy.
Constitution Hill is a living museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former prison and military fort that bears testament to South Africa’s turbulent past and, today, is home to the country’s Constitutional Court, which endorses the rights of all citizens.
There is perhaps no other site of incarceration in South Africa that imprisoned the sheer number of world-renowned men and women as those held within the walls of Constitution Hill’s Old Fort, Women's Jail and Number Four. Nelson Mandela. Mahatma Gandhi. Joe Slovo. Albertina Sisulu. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Fatima Meer. They all served time here. But the precinct also confined tens of thousand
193 locals recommend
Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct
11 Kotze StConstitution Hill is a living museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former prison and military fort that bears testament to South Africa’s turbulent past and, today, is home to the country’s Constitutional Court, which endorses the rights of all citizens.
There is perhaps no other site of incarceration in South Africa that imprisoned the sheer number of world-renowned men and women as those held within the walls of Constitution Hill’s Old Fort, Women's Jail and Number Four. Nelson Mandela. Mahatma Gandhi. Joe Slovo. Albertina Sisulu. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Fatima Meer. They all served time here. But the precinct also confined tens of thousand
Drinks & Nightlife
Blind Tiger Cafe
62 Tyrone AveGood food and drinks
Maboneng Precinct
Kruger StreetGetting Around
Rosebank Gautrain Station
130 Oxford RdGood way to get to and from OR Tambo Airport