The Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant Awards 2012 and the Alto Top 100 Places to Eat Cape Town 2012 have once again raised the issue of how restaurants should be judged.   Should the country’s top restaurants and their chefs be judged by their peers, a panel of chefs, or should they be judged by the restaurant patrons by sms or e-mail, as one would vote for Idols?

For restaurants to be judged fairly:

*  The rules and judging criteria must be clearly specified.  Eat Out has these on the website.  The rules are that the restaurants eligible for the Top 10 Restaurant awards must have operated for a year (it does not address the chef change at all, interestingly!), the owners and Continue reading →