{"id":693207,"date":"2023-06-03T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=693207"},"modified":"2023-06-03T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T08:02:50","slug":"this-is-the-best-restaurant-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/693207\/this-is-the-best-restaurant-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The best restaurants in South Africa in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salsify at the Roundhouse in Camps Bay, Cape Town has been ranked as best restaurant in South Africa, winning the title at the fifth annual Luxe Restaurant Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards, which honour the South African restaurant industry&#8217;s best contributors, had numerous categories, with the panel of judges led by Chad Fourie, Managing Director of The Hospitality Counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past nine months, the Luxe Restaurant Award judges have been seeking out exemplary dining experiences in South Africa. Tonight, we have given these leading restaurants and chefs a platform to shine and celebrate their culinary genius,&#8221; said Fourie.<\/p>\n<p>Salsify at the Roundhouse was named the Restaurant of the Year at the awards, adding to the three stars it got from <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/655307\/these-are-the-6-best-restaurants-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eat Out<\/a> &#8211; the highest score possible.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cq2XRz4K2UU\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; 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Edge at the Mount Nelson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Street Food Experience of the Year<\/td>\n<td>Ramenhead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>People\u2019s Choice Award<\/td>\n<td>Homespan Blouberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\">People Awards<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\">Winner<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chef of the Year:<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Johannes Richter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Culinary Innovation Award<\/td>\n<td>Wandile Mabaso<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Culinary Media Personality of the Year:<\/td>\n<td>Lorna Maseko<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Culinary Rising Star Award:<\/td>\n<td>Jess Van Dyk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pastry Chef of the Year:<\/td>\n<td>Meg Meikle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pioneer Award:<\/td>\n<td>David Higgs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wine Service Award:<\/td>\n<td>Victor Okolo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/692901\/its-a-good-time-to-braai-in-south-africa-but-keep-the-guest-list-small-for-now\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">It\u2019s a good time to braai in South Africa \u2013 but keep the guest list small for now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salsify at the Roundhouse wins restaurant of the year at the fifth annual Luxe Restaurant Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":693211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-693207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693207"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693709,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693207\/revisions\/693709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}