The award comes after Wolfgat was awarded the number four spot at the 2018 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurants Awards last year in November.
OTHER 'BIG PLATES' WINNERS INCLUDE:
Arrival of the Year: Inua restaurant, Tokyo
Ethical Thinking: Refettorio, various locations throughout Italy
Original Thinking: Le Clerence, Paris
Atmosphere of the Year: Vespertine, Los Angeles
Collaboration of the Year: Paradiso X Gortnanain, Ireland
Enduring Classic: La Mère Brazier, France
Event of the Year: Refugee Food Festival, Paris and worldwide
House Special: Lido 84 (Cacio e Pepe), Italy
Forward Drinking: Mugaritz, Spain
No Reservations Required: Mocotó, Brazil
Wolfgat restaurant in Paternoster named Restaurant of the Year
Small seaside eatery in Western Cape comes out tops in World Restaurant Awards in Paris
Image: Gary Cotterell
A beach restaurant in the Western Cape was put on the map at the inaugural World Restaurant Awards in Paris where it was named Restaurant of the Year in the 12 'Big Plates' categories on Monday.
The 20-seater Wolfgat also won first place in the Big Plate Off-Map Destination category for remote restaurants “where the journey to get there is a story”.
Head chef Kobus van der Merwe started Wolfgat last year in a 130-year-old cottage and a cave on a beach in Paternoster.
Wolfgat: Food that makes the journey worth it
The World Restaurant Awards website describes the restaurant as “a small, remote haven of purity and good taste in every sense”.
Diners at Wolfgat can expect to be treated to a signature strandveld food menu that offers a series of tasting dishes presented in seven courses. Some of the dishes on the menu take weeks of preparation and others are made on the day with freshly harvested ingredients, according to the number of people expected.
The restaurant’s website promises diners “sustainable seafood, local lamb and venison, and seasonal veldkos … enhanced by wild herbs, seaweeds from the local rock pools and pickings from the garden”.
Image: Naashon Zalk
The award comes after Wolfgat was awarded the number four spot at the 2018 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurants Awards last year in November.
OTHER 'BIG PLATES' WINNERS INCLUDE:
Arrival of the Year: Inua restaurant, Tokyo
Ethical Thinking: Refettorio, various locations throughout Italy
Original Thinking: Le Clerence, Paris
Atmosphere of the Year: Vespertine, Los Angeles
Collaboration of the Year: Paradiso X Gortnanain, Ireland
Enduring Classic: La Mère Brazier, France
Event of the Year: Refugee Food Festival, Paris and worldwide
House Special: Lido 84 (Cacio e Pepe), Italy
Forward Drinking: Mugaritz, Spain
No Reservations Required: Mocotó, Brazil