Cape Town chef keeps cooking at eatery awards
by Eugene Yiga,
2015-11-20 06:00:20.0
CAPE Town chef Luke Dale-Roberts is having a good year. The Test Kitchen was voted Restaurant of the Year for the fourth consecutive time at the 2015 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Awards last weekend, and his other restaurant, The Pot Luck Club, came in ninth.
"Both restaurants (have been) on such a high since Sunday," says Dale-Roberts. "The teams are enthused and keen to keep moving forward, growing and evolving."
While the Western Cape continued to dominate what Johannesburg chef David Higgs has called SA’s premier restaurant awards, good things are coming to SA’s wealthiest province.
Dale-Roberts is to open a pop-up restaurant at one of the city’s boutique hotels, The Saxon. And Higgs — outgoing chef at that hotel’s Five Hundred, one of only two Johannesburg restaurants in the 2015 Top 10 — is to open a new eatery in Rosebank.
"It was a tough year and you could see it from the results," said Higgs. "When four big names drop off the top 10 list, you can get an idea of the standards at the moment. We are just grateful to have made the cut and it’s great to be able to leave on a high note.
"I am very excited to see Candice Philip’s (the new head chef at Five Hundred) growth over the next few years. Must keep an eye on her."
The awards ceremony was held at the GrandWest Casino’s SunExhibits Centre in Cape Town.
This year’s awards included a change: the "Best Of" awards were renamed the "Best Everyday Eateries" and winners were announced at separate events in Cape Town and Johannesburg last month. But one thing that remained the same was the sheer dominance of restaurants in the Western Cape.
Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient Boutique Hotel in Pretoria ranked seventh, while Five Hundred ranked fifth.
The latter also won the Wine Service Award for Lloyd Jusa, a sommelier who says he feels sorry for people who don’t drink wine because how they feel when they wake up in the morning is as good as it gets for the rest of the day.
FINE DINING: Luke Dale-Roberts’s The Test Kitchen scooped top place in the Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Awards. Picture: SUPPLIED
CAPE Town chef Luke Dale-Roberts is having a good year. The Test Kitchen was voted Restaurant of the Year for the fourth consecutive time at the 2015 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Awards last weekend, and his other restaurant, The Pot Luck Club, came in ninth.
"Both restaurants (have been) on such a high since Sunday," says Dale-Roberts. "The teams are enthused and keen to keep moving forward, growing and evolving."
While the Western Cape continued to dominate what Johannesburg chef David Higgs has called SA’s premier restaurant awards, good things are coming to SA’s wealthiest province.
Dale-Roberts is to open a pop-up restaurant at one of the city’s boutique hotels, The Saxon. And Higgs — outgoing chef at that hotel’s Five Hundred, one of only two Johannesburg restaurants in the 2015 Top 10 — is to open a new eatery in Rosebank.
"It was a tough year and you could see it from the results," said Higgs. "When four big names drop off the top 10 list, you can get an idea of the standards at the moment. We are just grateful to have made the cut and it’s great to be able to leave on a high note.
"I am very excited to see Candice Philip’s (the new head chef at Five Hundred) growth over the next few years. Must keep an eye on her."
The awards ceremony was held at the GrandWest Casino’s SunExhibits Centre in Cape Town.
This year’s awards included a change: the "Best Of" awards were renamed the "Best Everyday Eateries" and winners were announced at separate events in Cape Town and Johannesburg last month. But one thing that remained the same was the sheer dominance of restaurants in the Western Cape.
Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient Boutique Hotel in Pretoria ranked seventh, while Five Hundred ranked fifth.
The latter also won the Wine Service Award for Lloyd Jusa, a sommelier who says he feels sorry for people who don’t drink wine because how they feel when they wake up in the morning is as good as it gets for the rest of the day.
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