
30 nominees for South Africa’s top restaurant awards announced
The nominees for the highly anticipated annual Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards have just been announced. To shine the spotlight on even more restaurants this year, the list of contenders for these coveted awards has been increased from 20 to 30 nominees.
The nominees, in alphabetical order, are:
Camphors at Vergelegen
Chefs Warehouse & Canteen
Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia
DW-Eleven 13
FABER
Fermier Restaurant
Foliage
Foxcroft
Greenhouse at The Cellars-Hohenort
Hartford House
Indochine
Jardine Restaurant
Jordan Restaurant
La Colombe
La Mouette
La Tête
Luke Dale-Roberts X The Saxon
Makaron Restaurant
Marble
Mulberry & Prince
Overture
The Pot Luck Club
The Restaurant at Waterkloof
Restaurant Mosaic at the Orient
The Shortmarket Club
Springfontein Eats
Terroir
The Test Kitchen
Thali
Wolfgat
The Top 10 restaurants will be revealed on Sunday 19 November 2017 at the awards ceremony at GrandWest in Cape Town, after a countdown from positions 20 to 11.
The criteria to determine the nominees and winners can be viewed at http://www.eatout.co.za/award/2017-eatout-mercedes-benz-restaurant-awards-2017/#awardjudging.)
The winning restaurants are chosen by a panel of five judges, led by Eat Out editor and head judge Abigail Donnelly. Aside from Abigail, the panel will remain anonymous even after the judging has concluded. Says Abigail: “We are thrilled to be recognising more restaurants with the new format this year. No fewer than 13 restaurants are making their debut appearance on our list of nominees.”
Added Selvin Govender, Marketing Director of Mercedes-Benz Cars,“We wish the nominees all the best, and look forward to celebrating the deserving winners who are at the pinnacle of their industry.”
The 2017 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards will also recognise the winner of the inaugural Eat Out Graham Beck Chefs’ Chef Award along with the winners of the The Eat Out S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna Chef of the Year, the Eat Out Retail Capital New Restaurant of the Year, the Eat Out John Psillos Award for Outstanding Contribution to Service, the Eat Out Style Award, the Eat Out Service Excellence Award, the Eat Out Wine Service Award and the Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award.
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