La Colombe at Silvermist judged best restaurant in Cape winelands
THE DINERS Club World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy has included La Colombe at Silvermist in Constantia among their Top 100 for 2016. At No. 76, according to the Academy, La Colombe is the top-ranked restaurant in the winelands of South Africa – second only to The Test Kitchen (ranked No. 22 in the world) at the Biscuit Mill in Woodstock as regards the best restaurants in Cape Town, in South Africa, in Africa.
The top awards for Best Restaurants in the World, presented in New York, included that for the choice of No. 1: Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy. The awards are organised and published by William Reed Media and are based on the votes of The Diners Club World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy, a group of around 1000 industry leaders – food writers and critics, chefs, restaurateurs and ‘highly regarded gastronomes’ – around the globe. The Academy comprises 27 regions, each of which has 36 members, each of whom can cast seven votes, at least three of which must recognise restaurants outside the voter’s own region.
For more about the awards and the full results, see here. For all of the top restaurants on the Capes wine farms, see here.
