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The 2021 Restaurant Week XXL Edition saw over 15,000 guests making their way to the 100 participating restaurants in South Africa, who all designed a special menu and served this to Restaurant Week guests exclusively, afterwards, every guest was invited to review the restaurant.
La Petite Colombe in Franschhoek was awarded the Best Restaurant Award because of their exceptionally high scores for cuisine: 10, service: 10 and ambience: 9.8, resulting in an overall average of 9.9.

Top-performing restaurants per region were:
Best of Cape Town:
FYN Restaurant: 9.8 (cuisine: 9.9, service: 9.9, ambience: 9.7)
Best of Johannesburg:
Basalt: 9.8 (cuisine: 9.8, service: 9.9, ambience: 9.7)
Best of Pretoria:
Prosopa: 9.7 (cuisine: 9.7, service: 9.6, ambience: 9.8)
Best of the Winelands:
Epice: 9.9 (cuisine: 10, service: 9.9, ambience: 9.8)
Best of Durban:
The Chefs' Table: 9.8 (cuisine: 9.9, service: 10, ambience: 9.5)