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Eat Out announces Top 20 Restaurant shortlist, in silly dribs and drabs!
Eat Out is really trying hard to be different in its Top 10 Restaurant Awards this year, and comes across as rather silly. Now it is starting to release its Top 20 Restaurant shortlist, but in batches...
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Gauteng’s Best Restaurants: an overview!
Not having been to Johannesburg in 25 years since moving to Cape Town, it was now or never to get to five hundred before Chef David Higgs leaves on 11 December. I combined the visit with meals at...
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Eat Out Awards new venue, Top 10 Restaurants 2015: a prediction!
On Sunday the eagerly awaited Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards 2015 winners will be announced at its Gala Lunch, to be held at new event venue SunExhibits Centre at GrandWest. As is our...
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Eat Out Restaurant Awards 2015: Restaurant Oscars, luckiest Friday 13th...
It could have been a disaster, changing the venue from the Mistico Equestrian Centre outside Paarl to the SunEvents Centre at GrandWest two days prior to the 17th Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant...
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Inaugural 2016/2017 Gourmet Guide launched, Top 21 SA restaurants ‘plated’!
Today the inaugural ‘2016/2017 Gourmet Guide: Top South African Restaurants, their Chefs & Recipes‘ was launched at the Good Food & Wine Show. Twenty one top restaurants were honored with one...
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New restaurant openings in Cape Town and Winelands continue in winter!
New restaurant openings continue, especially in Cape Town, despite winter having arrived, and further restaurants have closed down. We update information about newly opened and closed restaurants...
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Top new restaurants open in Cape Town and Winelands!
June has seen the opening of excellent restaurants The Shortmarket Club, SOURCE, Idiom, and The Stack, despite it being the middle of winter. New restaurant openings continue, especially in Cape Town,...
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Chefs who Share Young Chef Award 2016 Finalists announced!
The seven talented Young Chef Award 2016 Finalists have been announced for Chefs who Share – the ART of Giving, the winner being announced at the Chefs who Share Gala Dinner in Johannesburg on 24...
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New restaurants set to open in Cape Town and Winelands in September!
August has seen the opening of new restaurants Coco Safar, The Mess, and Bellingham 1693, with a number of September openings imminent. Some restaurants have closed. We update information about newly...
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Eat Out Awards 2016: who will make the Top 10 restaurant list?
Tomorrow the Eat Out Awards will be held, the culinary highlight of the year. For the second year running the event will be held as a lunch at GrandWest, but tomorrow the Awards event will be held in...
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Eat Out announces the Top 30 Restaurant list for 2018: some surprise...
This afternoon Eat Out announced its list of the Top 30 restaurants in our country for this year. The Top 20 restaurants will be revealed at the Awards ceremony on 18 November at GrandWest, and the Top...
View ArticleBeloved Carte Blanche presenter Derek Watts passes away.
Today Derek Watts, the well-known, respected, and loved Carte Blanche TV presenter, passed away. He was 74 years old. He was a presenter for 35 years. News 24 writes, quoting his long-standing fellow...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Camps Bay CID Steering Committee.
Yesterday I attended the first meeting of the proposed Camps Bay CID. It is to have three legs: Crime prevention, Homelessness prevention, and Environment/Cleanliness. The Steering Committee is heavily...
View ArticleChef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen becomes WWF Ambassador
Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen of the JAN Restaurant Group has announced that he is a new Ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund. The article in his weekly newsletter of 25 August follows below:...
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