It was exhilarating to see Joburg shine as the emerging food capital of the country at the fourth annual Luxe Restaurant Awards. That’s what almost everybody present was thinking, and what ‘The Lazy Makoti’ chef Mogau Seshoene said.
took the Style award. It’s part of the Marble Group that includes David Higgs. Irene Kyriacou, responsible for the mind-blowing, quite humorous décor, fetched that.
I’m impressed with how speedily the awards process goes with presenter Shashi Naidoo. It’s all pretty quick-quick with none of those thanks to everyone that recipients can think of. She gives a very pithy synopsis and the lights flash as awards change hands. The awardees usually speak one or two sentences. No ennui.receives the Bistro of the Year Award and it’s another I’d have awarded, myself, were I Hosco. The five judges for the Luxe Restaurant Awards are anonymous.
I was once a great fan of the Parisian food travel site and awards, Le Fooding. They would drop in less lofty seeming but could-be-just-as-respected categories such as hamburgers. Luxe has one this year. The Hamburger of the Year is going to BGR in Jozi. It would have been my choice too, the real, excellent thing without the OTT stuff. And there’s a Coffee Shop of the Year category, the award being won as I watch, by Truth in Cape Town city.
There was bound to be a category, given Hosco’s business, for the Best Hotel Restaurant. I’ve always considered it a great handicap, given the different way kitchens work for hotels and restaurants. Here it’s being awarded to Aurum. Then a slightly flustered chef Ken Phuduhudu races from this very kitchen to collect an award. Ethos has won the International Restaurant of the Year. Big yay.
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