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Hi All,
We have unfortunately been unable to go to KNP for the last couple of years. Can anyone please tell me if Milly's has been rebuilt after last year's fire? We use to love that place as a stop over for breakfast on our way.

Rozannee

I saw Milly's this year on my way to Lydenburg and it seemed all there and many guests

Don't know if I missed something, but I went past there very recently and the building is still under construction.

Hi Rozannee - Welcome to the forum.

The main restaurant at Milly's is still under construction and by the look of things will take some time to complete.
However the 'Quick Service Deli' part is fully functional and operating as normal.

The filling station as well as the surrounding shops are all operating.

Went past there 2 weeks ago and it seemed closed. We stopped at the new place on the Southern side of the N4 (I think it's between the Engen stop and Milly's) and had a great breakfast at the Spur with an overview of a wild camp with rhinos, ostriches, blesbokke, etc.

Try it, it's worth it!!

The restaurant was destroyed by a fire, in June or July.
They are rebuilding, but not finished. Don't know when they will be done, but probably not in a few months time.
You can have breakfast at an area just outside the shop, but the menu is very limited. Three or four items, plus coffee or tea. Eggs and bacon, eggs, bacon and sausage or eggs and trout, or a toasted bacon and egg sandwich.
I just had breakfast there this morning, returning from KNP. They didn't have orange juice unfortunately, but not bad overall.
Was searching everywhere for this info before we left, with no success.
Hope it helps with your planning.

That sounds like good advice.

The stop I was referring to is the Alzu Petroport.

Mel, they have a great menu as well, Elzet (my SO) had prawns!

It will be a great pity if a Spur at a Petroport ends up taking away large swathes of custom from Milly's. Milly's is an institution, and for that alone deserves to be supported. It's like the Wimpy in Heidelberg in the Western Cape, EVERYONE stops there when heading up to the Garden Route!

Hell, even I know about it (and have had a couple of really nice breakfasts there), and I live some 1600km from there!

Hi Orange, I hear what you are saying, but the “main” Milly’s burned down and it seems that in the interim you can order breakfast from a limited menu, without orange juice, on the stoep looking at the cars racing down the highway or the peeps filling up at the station.

I can only speak for myself, but I would rather enjoy breakfast looking at a few rhinos, blesbokke and ostriches while my daughter plays her heart out in the kiddies play area.

In my book it’s about a quality breakfast at a reasonable price and at this stage Milly’s is last in line. Everyone has a free choice to support who he/she wants to support and I don't feel like having a breakfast on a stoep with the highway traffic racing by just because “they deserve to be supported!


Maybe it's because they are the ONLY worthwhile stop around there!

Valid point (both of them - especially Heidelberg - that is really the back end of the back end of nowhere!).

But I hope that once Milly's is rebuilt it won't have been too late. Choice is good, but I can go for a Spur breakfast (which is admittedly very good value for money) any time I want to. Milly's was (and hopefully will one day be again) something different to the norm.

For me, that counts for something.

Of course, that doesn't mean to say they can slop any old thing onto my plate and think they'll get away with it. Ambience, and being different, will only score you so many points. Crap food at hideous prices will lose you way more...

I agree with you Orange. When Milly's is 100% operational again I will support them as in the past!
Only choice is, what do I want to look at while feeding my face....rhinos, ostriches and blesbokke or fish?

From their website

Good place to stop at, depending of course on where you're coming from. People from Gauteng might find it a tad too close to home. One hardly gets up to speed before reaching there. Not bad on the way home though.

I stop at Milly's every time I drive to Kruger.
Hope they rebuild it soon.

On our way to Kruger in August we were horrified to see Milly's but had snack and much needed tea then hatched brilliant plan and purchaced cold cooked trout mixed plate and lovely bread and a frozen lamb curry. So once we arrived after night flight and day in the car plus the hour in Piick and Pay, we could eat the cold trout, have an early night and look forward to curry the next day. We'll do the same this year... Spur on the way back to the airport.