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SA’s Wolfgat named world’s restaurant of the year

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 by Nikita Buxton

South Africa’s very own Wolfgat in Paternoster was announced as Restaurant of the Year at the inaugural World Restaurant Awards in Paris last night (18 February). The foraging-focused eatery also took home the award for best restaurant in the Off-Map Destination category. Chef Kobus van der Merwe joined some of the world’s best chefs to celebrate game-changing restaurants in the global restaurant industry at the event.

Wolfgat‘s head chef Kobus van der Merwe – Eat Out’s reigning S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna Chef of the Year – collected the award from the always-glam television host, celeb chef and fellow South African, Lorna Maseko.

The restaurant, which is housed in a converted 130-year-old fisherman’s beach cottage in Paternoster offers one of the best, most untouched views in the country and is praised for a menu that is built freshness and locality. “If mother nature erected a sign saying ‘build restaurant here’, it would surely point to Wolfgat. Chosen from all the inspected big plates, our inaugural Restaurant of the Year is a small, remote haven of purity and good taste in every sense,” reads the World Restaurant Awards website.

The new international restaurant awards comprises a more progressive list of categories – which are judged by a panel of of experts from across the globe including Eat Out’s chief judge Margot Janse – in an attempt to reflect the range of diversity in the global restaurant scene.

Congratulations to Kobus and the Woflgat team on bringing home the gold! We are so proud!

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13 Comments

  • Kelly Cloete
    February 19, 2019

    So amazing! Well done Kobus and team on the double win!

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  • Brigitte Dovgvillo
    February 19, 2019

    Congratulations!! After 41 years in SA and now living in Berlin Germany, I visited the westcoast and paternoster in particular very often. Feeling very honesick now and most of all mmissing the great yummy south African cuisine. Lots love Brigitte

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  • Ethel Lottering
    February 19, 2019

    Oh WOW, well done and congratulations, what an accomplishment!!

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  • Daleen Howitt
    February 20, 2019

    Congrats Kobus and team you’ve put Paternoster on the world map.
    Proudly South Africa

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  • Antjie Botha
    February 20, 2019

    Wonderlik!! Fantasties!! Baie trots op jou?????????

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  • Cecilia Lowenthal
    February 21, 2019

    Baie geluk !! N fantastiese eer vir julle en Suid Afrika!
    Groete uit Los Angeles en Louisville KY..

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  • Ron Pocock
    February 21, 2019

    Well done!

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  • Esther Gerber
    February 21, 2019

    Congratulations Kobus and your whole team!!! Paternoster is now on the world map! This is just great.
    Proudly South African

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  • MariusRossouw
    February 21, 2019

    Kobus and Wolfgat team. Congratulation on a world class perfomance, Something to be really proud off! I hope that this will inspire more chefs and restauranteurs in SA as we need break through stories like this to make us all proud again! Where there is a will/dream there is away! Blessings Marius Arabella Kleinmond SA.

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  • Juergen Schulz
    February 21, 2019

    Kobus, die beste Gratulation aus Deutschland via Somerset West. Juergen

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  • Corrie Laubscher Durbanville
    February 23, 2019

    Fantasties, jy maak ons trots!!!

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  • June Saunderson
    February 25, 2019

    What a GREAT ACHIEVEMENT. WELL DONE Wolfgat owners and dedicated TEAM. VERY PROUD OF MY HOMIES.

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  • Leon Diederichs
    July 20, 2019

    Well done Kobus. What a good example of well organized teamwork and passion.

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