After reviewing over 800 restaurants countrywide, Eat Out editor Abigail Donnelly and our exceptional judges have finally announced the shortlist of 20 nominees for the 2007 Eat Out Restaurant Awards. And they are:

Auberge Michel
Aubergine Bosman’s
Bread & Wine
Cafe 1999
Ginja
Grande Provence
Jardine
La Belle Terasse and Loggia
La Colombe
Linger Longer
9th Avenue Bistro
Reuben’s
Roots
Salt
The Tasting Room
Templetons at Four Oaks
Terroir
The Showroom
Zachary’s

These 20 finalists also stand the chance of winning the following coveted awards: EAT OUT Restaurant of the Year; EAT OUT Chef of the Year and EAT OUT Service Award.

The final Top 10 restaurants as chosen by Abigail Donnelly and the panel of four judges (Food Alchemist Pete Goffe-Wood; Principle of the Institute of Culinary Arts Letitia Prinsloo; Restaurateur Dario De’Angeli, and Director of the SA Chefs Association Arnold Tanzer), will be unveiled at the glamorous Eat Out Restaurant Awards ceremony to be held at The Rotunda at The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay (Cape Town) on Sunday 25 November.

The EAT OUT Lifetime Achievement Award; as well as the Woolworths TASTE Bursary Award will also be awarded at the ceremony.