{"id":12515,"date":"2010-09-23T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=12515"},"modified":"2010-09-26T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T10:41:05","slug":"eat-out-top-20-restaurant-awards-shortlist-highlights-cape-culinary-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/eat-out-top-20-restaurant-awards-shortlist-highlights-cape-culinary-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Out Top 20 Restaurant Awards shortlist highlights Cape Culinary centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The eagerly awaited Top 20 shortlist for the 2010 Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant Awards has just been announced.\u00a0\u00a0 Five of the twenty top restaurants are in Cape Town,\u00a0two are in Franschhoek, and new SA Gourmet Capital is Stellenbosch, with\u00a0five finalists.\u00a0\u00a0 Fifteen of the Top 20 Restaurant list are from the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

The Top 20 List follows:<\/p>\n

Cape Town<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Aubergine, The Greenhouse, Jardine<\/strong><\/a>, La Colombe, The Roundhouse<\/p>\n

Stellenbosch<\/strong>: Restaurant Christophe<\/strong><\/a>, Jordan’s Restaurant with George Jardine<\/a><\/strong>, Overture<\/a><\/strong>, Rust en Vrede<\/strong><\/a>, Terroir<\/p>\n

Franschhoek<\/strong>:\u00a0 Reuben’s, The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Fran\u00c3\u00a7ais<\/p>\n

Paarl<\/strong>: Bosman’s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at Grande Roche<\/p>\n

Somerset West<\/strong>:\u00a0 Restaurant at Waterkloof<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Knysna<\/strong>: Zachary’s at Pezula<\/p>\n

Johannesburg<\/strong>: DW Eleven-13, Linger Longer, Roots<\/p>\n

Pretoria<\/strong>: Mosaic<\/p>\n

KwaZulu-Natal<\/strong>: Hartford House<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago we posted a prediction of the Top 20 shortlist<\/a><\/strong>, and correctly predicted the inclusion of Bosman’s, Restaurant Christophe, Jordan’s Restaurant with George Jardine, The Greenhouse, Jardine, Mosaic, Overture, The Restaurant at Waterkloof, Roots, Rust & Vrede, The Roundhouse, The Tasting Room and Terroir.\u00a0\u00a0 We are surprised at the inclusion of Reuben’s Franschhoek, due to service issues, and of La Colombe, as its chef Luke Dale-Roberts works at the restaurant in a\u00a0consulting capacity now and is opening his new restaurant The Test Kitchen in November.\u00a0\u00a0 A welcome surprise is to see Bosman’s on the shortlist again, after a long absence.\u00a0 Surprise exclusions are Giorgio Nava’s Carne<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and 95 Keerom Street (he is a darling of Eat Out <\/strong>editor Abigail Donnelly!), and of Bizerca Bistro, which controversially won in the stand-alone Best Bistro category last year.\u00a0\u00a0 As predicted, previous Top 10 winner Jacques de Jager of Salt (ex-Grande Provence), and previously shortlisted Top 20 Rudi Liebenberg of the Cape Colony restaurant at the Mount Nelson Hotel, did not make the 2010 Top 20 shortlist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Eat Out Top 10 Restaurants will be announced at a gala dinner on 28 November.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The eagerly awaited Top 20 shortlist for the 2010 Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant Awards has just been announced.\u00a0\u00a0 Five of the twenty top restaurants are in Cape Town,\u00a0two are in Franschhoek, and new SA Gourmet Capital is Stellenbosch, with\u00a0five finalists.\u00a0\u00a0 Fifteen of the Top 20 Restaurant list are from the Western Cape. The Top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,14,20,31,21],"tags":[7244,2803,38,2810,2299,143,1515,32366,1434,32378,6825,7568,32369,1437,144,554,3066,40,99,6100,681,39,549,2296,555,2564,1326,33,32384,3503,3510,7569,3259,41,1606,1612,34,1403,32398,32376,447,2690,607,1362,7518,32387,32373,1363],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t