All the winners celebrated at the 2019 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards are:
Eat Out S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna Chef of the Year: Bertus Basson
Eat Out Restaurant of the Year: La Colombe
Top 10 Restaurants:
1. La Colombe
2. The Test Kitchen
3. The Restaurant at Waterkloof
4. Wolfgat
5. FYN
6. La Petite Colombe
7. Eike
8. Salsify 9. Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient
10. Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia
Restaurants ranked from 11–20:
11. Camphors at Vergelegen
12. Overture
13. LivingRoom at Summerhill Estate
14. Chefs Warehouse at Maison
15. Greenhouse at The Cellars-Hohenort
16. Le Coin Français
17. La Tête
18. The Shortmarket Club 19. Tjing Tjing Momiji
20. Rust en Vrede
Eat Out Service Excellence Award: The Test Kitchen
Eat Out Nederburg Rising Star: Katlego Mlambo of The Marabi Club
Eat Out Retail Capital New Restaurant of the Year: Jewell’s Restaurant
Eat Out Graham Beck Chefs’ Chef Award: Ivor Jones of Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia
Eat Out Wine Service Award: Joseph Dhafana of La Colombe
Eat Out John Psillos Award for Outstanding Contribution to Service: Jennifer Hugé
Eat Out Lannice Snyman Lifetime Achievement Award: Annette Kesler
Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award: Camphors at Vergelegen
Eat Out VISI Style Award: FYN
Eat Out Nespresso Innovation Award: The Test Kitchen
Eat Out Bridget McCarneyGamechanger Award: Ishay Govender-Ypma and Zayaan Khan of SA POC at the Table
Eat Out Irna van Zyl Food Media Icon Award: Dorah Sitole
Stephen is a hospitality professional from Johannesburg South Africa. His career started with THF hotels in the UK and subsequently with the Southern Sun Hotel group in Johannesburg. Stephen’s first steps into entrepreneurship was Hickmore Recruitment / CareerMap, a leading supplier of Senior and Exec recruitment services. Stephen was a founder of Pple Hospitality (formerly HSC) the largest Hospitality Industry full-service outsourced staffing company in South Africa. In March 2020 Stephen became a director and owner of the Swiss Hotel School South Africa, which is now his full time endeavour. Stephen writes for a number of publications on food and hospitality industry matters, trends and opinions.
