Eat Out is thrilled to announce the list of 20 nominees for the Top 10 restaurants at this year’s Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards. Get your tickets now to this culinary experience with food prepared by six top SA chefs.
The nominees, in alphabetical order, are:
Bread & Wine
DW Eleven-13
Five Hundred
Jordan Restaurant
La Mouette
Makaron
Overture
Planet Restaurant
Restaurant Mosaic
Rust en Vrede
Terroir
The Greenhouse at Cellars-Hohenort
The Kitchen at Maison
The Pot Luck Club
The Restaurant at Newton Johnson
The Restaurant at Waterkloof
The Tasting Room
The Test Kitchen
The White Room at Dear Me
Tokara
South Africa’s new Top 10 will be announced on the 16th of November 2014 at Thunder City in Cape Town. The glittering awards ceremony will see six celebrated chefs preparing a five-course meal paired with wine and beer for the largest audience yet. Tickets are on sale now via Webtickets.
Where else could you have six decorated chefs cooking for you under one roof – with wine and premium drinks included?
Eat Out is delighted to reveal that the event’s showcase dinner – always a highlight of the evening – will be prepared by:
David Higgs of Five Hundred (our reigning Chef of the Year)
George Jardine of Jordan Restaurant (currently no. 6 in the Top 10)
Neil Jewell of Bread & Wine (a Top 10 nominee in 2013)
Bertus Basson of Overture (no. 7)
PJ Vadas formerly of Camphors at Vergelegen (no. 8 in the Top 10)
Vanessa Marx of Dear Me, who was named 2013’s Rising Star
We’ve even heard whisperings of an interactive dessert with Soma confection! Each course will be paired with free-flowing complimentary drinks, including the likes of Nederburg, Boschendal and Grolsch.
On the night, the Top 10 restaurants in the country for 2014 will be unveiled, along with the Restaurant of the Year, San Pellegrino Chef of the Year, Grolsch Service Excellence Award, the winner of the Lannice Snyman Lifetime Achievement Award in Association with Paarl Media, the Boschendal Style Award and Nederburg Rising Star Award. After the awards ceremony, the celebrations will continue into the early hours of the morning with extended festivities at the venue. Best you get your dancing shoes shined!
This year Abigail Donnelly, Eat Out editor and judge for the annual restaurant awards, was supported by five anonymous judges, whose identities will also be revealed on awards night. With the determining factors being excellence in food, service and ambience, the judges ate at restaurants across the country to determine the nominees, and each judge scored restaurants individually on a scorecard.
Says Donnelly, “I am very excited about this year’s list of nominees. We’ve seen a number of significant and newsworthy changes at the country’s top restaurants over the past year, which means that – besides the excellent restaurants we’ve celebrated before – there are some very deserving newcomers on the list. We look forward to honouring these phenomenal restaurants for their stellar work at this year’s event, which is going to be the biggest awards ceremony we’ve hosted yet!”
Follow @Eat_Out on Twitter to join the conversation and to see live updates on the night, and like the Eat Out Facebook page. The Eat Out magazine 2015 will launch on the night of the Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards and will be available at selected Woolworths, Exclusive Books, Pick n Pay, Spar and CNA stores too.
Buy tickets online now for this once-in-a-lifetime foodie experience.
For more information visit eatout.co.za.
