{"id":4450,"date":"2009-10-01T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2009-10-17T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T14:12:31","slug":"top-20-finalists-cooking-for-eat-out-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/top-20-finalists-cooking-for-eat-out-top-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 restaurant finalists cooking for Eat Out Top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sixteen of the 20 finalists on the Prudential Eat Out Restaurant Awards list, from which the Top 10 list will be selected at the Awards function on 22 November, are from Cape Town and the Western Cape, proving that the Cape is the Gourmet Centre of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eight\u00a0finalists are from Cape Town alone,\u00a0four are from\u00a0Franschhoek\u00a0and\u00a0three are from Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n

The three Stellenbosch finalists all made the Top 10 list last year – Terroir, Overture and Rust & Vrede.\u00a0 Franschhoek’s finalists are Reubens (Top Chef and Top Restaurant winner five years ago), The Restaurant at Grande Provence, Bread & Wine, and The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Francais (the only current Top 10 restaurant in Franschhoek).\u00a0\u00a0 All the Franschhoek finalists have been previous Top 10 winners.<\/p>\n

New entrants to the Top\u00a020 list, having been open for\u00a0more than\u00a0a year, are Carne, The Greenhouse at The Cellars Hohenhort,\u00a0and The Roundhouse,\u00a0all based in Cape Town.\u00a0\u00a0 All other finalists were finalists last year as well.<\/p>\n

Finalists of last year that did not make the Top 20 list this year are The Showroom (closed down earlier this year and now houses Portofino), Myoga, The Saxon (chef Rudi\u00a0Liebenberg has moved to The Mount Nelson Hotel) and Linger Longer.<\/p>\n

The full list of Top 20 finalists is as follows:<\/p>\n

1. 9th Avenue Bistro<\/a>, Durban
\n2. Aubergine<\/a>, Cape Town
\n3. Bizerca Bistro<\/a>, Cape Town
\n4. Bread and Wine<\/a>, Franschhoek
\n5. Carne SA<\/a>, Cape Town
\n6. The Foodbarn<\/a>, Cape Town
\n7. The Greenhouse at The Cellars-Hohenort<\/a>, Cape Town
\n8. Hartford House<\/a>, Mooi River, KZN
\n9. Jardine<\/a>, Cape Town
\n10. La Colombe<\/a>, Cape Town
\n11. Mosaic Restaurant<\/a>, Pretoria
\n12. Overture<\/a>, Stellenbosch
\n13. The Restaurant at Grande Provence<\/a>, Franschhoek
\n14. Reuben’s Restaurant & Bar<\/a>, Franschhoek
\n15. Roots<\/a>, Johannesburg
\n16. The Roundhouse<\/a>, Cape Town
\n17. Rust en Vrede<\/a>, Stellenbosch
\n18. Tasting Room at Le Quartier Fran\u00c3\u00a7ais<\/a>, Franschhoek
\n19. Terroir<\/a>, Stellenbosch
\n20. Zachary’s<\/a>, Knysna<\/p>\n

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

Sixteen of the 20 finalists on the Prudential Eat Out Restaurant Awards list, from which the Top 10 list will be selected at the Awards function on 22 November, are from Cape Town and the Western Cape, proving that the Cape is the Gourmet Centre of the country.\u00a0 Eight\u00a0finalists are from Cape Town alone,\u00a0four are […]<\/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":[2298,38,2299,36,32366,1434,32378,32369,2291,554,40,39,549,2296,2301,441,35,33,2294,2290,13,41,1606,1612,1231,32376,447,2300,2292,2297,607,2293,32,1362,32373,1363],"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