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South Africa’s Best French Restaurant : Le Quartier Français

Monica Guy is joining us again this week to tell us what more there is to do in South Africa. Enjoy.

Live in Paris for a while and you’ll start to absorb French-style snobbiness about their culinary prowess.

So after a couple of years living in the capital of haute cuisine, I was eager to see what the South Africans would do with fine food in the Tasting Room at Le Quartier Français, South Africa’s most talked-up award-winning restaurant in Cape Town.

Not just one award, but numerous top prizes – including being voted one of The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants by Restaurant Magazine UK, every single year from 2005 to 2008.

Le Quartier Français is on the main street in Franschhoek, a sweet little town near Cape Town that reeks of easy wealth and gourmet cooking: it’s the place to eat and drink for those who have both a wallet and a belly bigger than the norm.

The name means ‘French corner’ after the French Huguenot settlers, but it’s mostly UK, US and German tourists who frequent the place now.

And merci à Dieu, it turns out The Tasting Room is nothing like a French restaurant at all.

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