South Africa has been named Africa’s Best Culinary Destination per the World Culinary Awards, following several wins from all sorts of restaurants, from fine dining to farm-to-table offerings!
South Africa (14 October 2024) — South Africans know that culinary offerings from our country tend to be peppered with that extra hit of pizazz, salted with something special, or cooked with a specific flavour of South African passion. But, did you know that your inclinations toward how good our food is have a lot of merit? Well, they do, because South Africa was recently named Africa’s Best Culinary Destination per the World Culinary Awards!
A mighty feast for the servers of feasts, the 2024 World Culinary Awards praised our country as the top destination for foodies coming to Africa.
On top of this, many individual restaurants were also spotlighted as winners of their own sub-categories, while the City of Cape Town was ranked the Best Culinary City Destination across the continent.
Winners From the 2024 World Culinary Awards
- Epice—South Africa and Africa’s Best Restaurant
- Salsify at the Roundhouse—Africa’s Best Landmark Restaurant
- The 11th Floor—Africa’s Best Rooftop Restaurant
- TANG V&A Waterfront—Africa’s Best Asian Cuisine Restaurant
- SALON—Africa’s Best New Restaurant
- SIBA—The Restaurant @ Table Bay—Africa’s Best Fine Dining Hotel Restaurant
- Babel @ Babylonstoren—Africa’s Best Farm-to-Table Restaurant
Says Charné Sampson the Head Chef of Epice on the full circle victory:
“We are over the moon to have received this acknowledgement – considering we won Best New Restaurant in 2020, to have been awarded the title of Best Restaurant in Africa only four years later is truly amazing. I couldn’t be prouder of our amazing hard-working, dedicated team.”
Additionally, Marble was plated as South Africa’s Best Culinary Experience, while Azure Restaurant @ The Twelve Apostles was named SA’s Best Hotel Restaurant!
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