{"id":5191,"date":"2009-11-10T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T07:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2010-11-26T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:43:29","slug":"rossouws-restaurants-top-restaurants-rocks-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/rossouws-restaurants-top-restaurants-rocks-the-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossouw’s Restaurants’ top restaurants rocks (the boat)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The 2010 edition of Rossouw’s Restaurants, an independent restaurant guide that judges restaurants informally from 1 – 3 stars, has just been launched.\u00a0\u00a0 It includes a few surprises in its inclusions, and more importantly exclusions, in its 3-star top restaurant list, coming just 13 days before the announcement of the 2010 Eat Out Top 10 Restaurant Awards.<\/p>\n

The biggest shock is the exclusion of Le Quartier Francais’ Tasting Room in the 3-star restaurant category, but is designated as “bubbling under” by the author JP Rossouw.\u00a0\u00a0 Other “bubbling under” restaurants include Terroir, a long-standing Eat Out Top 10 restaurant, new restaurant The Roundhouse (on the Eat Out Top 10 shortlist), Belthazar in the V&A Waterfront, The Greenhouse at the Cellars Hohenhort (on the top 20 shortlist for the Eat Out Top 10), and Mosaic (on the Eat Out Top 10 shortlist).<\/p>\n

In total 14 restaurants have been awarded 3-stars by Rossouw, of which 8 are in the Cape Town and Winelands areas:\u00a0\u00a0 Aubergine, Bizerca, Jardine, Joostenberg Bistro (a surprise!), La Colombe, Overture, Reuben’s, and Rust\u00a0en Vrede.\u00a0\u00a0 (All of these restaurants, with the exception of the Joostenberg Bistro, are on the Eat Out Top 10 shortlist).\u00a0\u00a0 The remaining 3-star winners are Ile de Pain and Zachary’s in Knysna (the latter is Eat Out Top 10 shortlisted), Mariana’s in Stanford, Ritrovo in Pretoria and The Butcher Shop & Grill and Thomas Maxwell Bistro in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Rossouw defines a 3-star restaurant as one that “shines in its price point and offers a truly special food experience…. it’s the all-round feeling of pleasure that’s created by a lovely space, warm hospitality, good service, and crackerjack food.\u00a0 Track record is also important : three star restaurants should consistently deliver on their promise”.<\/p>\n

Rossouw has dropped the controversial 2009 3-star Magica Roma from the 3-star list\u00a0in his latest guide, for which he received much criticism.\u00a0 \u00a0Comments left on Rossouw’s website\u00a0are critical of his treatment of Le Quartier Francais, given that it is a Top 50 restaurant in the world, but\u00a0Rossouw was prepared for the question: “The Tasting Room’s move from three stars in 2009 to two stars in 2010 was not a decision easily made, but it was certainly not influenced by what other reviews\/guides\/Top 50’s say”.\u00a0 Rossouw adds that he is guided by customer reviews he receives, but the final score is his.\u00a0\u00a0 See full details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The 2010 edition of Rossouw’s Restaurants, an independent restaurant guide that judges restaurants informally from 1 – 3 stars, has just been launched.\u00a0\u00a0 It includes a few surprises in its inclusions, and more importantly exclusions, in its 3-star top restaurant list, coming just 13 days before the announcement of the 2010 Eat Out Top 10 […]<\/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":[3,124,20,21],"tags":[38,2221,37,32366,1449,2679,1359,40,2691,2688,39,549,1360,1361,2564,33,41,1366,1358,34,2689,447,2692,2690,607,1365,2693,32393,32382,1363],"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