South Africa’s La Colombe has been named the 12th best restaurant in the world, and the best restaurant in the Middle East and Africa, in the 2010 edition of the prestigious S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, produced by the British Restaurant magazine.

The awards organisers said the restaurant “effortlessly combines Asian influences with a modern French style of cooking”. Based at the Constantia Uitsig wine estate south of Cape Town, La Colombe has been headed by chef Luke Dale-Roberts since 2006, who has “developed ideas such as a creamy miso dressing or cepe and sage brioche to retain a loyal clientele”.

La Colombe was also the winner of the Chef of the Year 2009 and Restaurant of the Year for both 2008 and 2009 in the Prudential Eat Out Awards, and was given a three-star rating, the highest, in the 2009 and 2010 issues of the Rossouw’s Restaurants guide.
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