The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards is a pretty big deal. The judges scour the world for the finest of fine dining, and it just so happens that Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek nabbed the number 36 spot.

This is what they had to say about the restaurant:

Part upmarket auberge, part award-winning restaurant complex, Le Quartier Français nestles in a corner of the Cape winelands. Dutch-born chef Margot Janse’s nine-course African-inspired Surprise Menu, paired with local wines, takes diners on a gourmet safari, highlighting southern African flavours, many of which are sourced from Le Quartier’s gardens. Others, such as Kalahari salt, hail from Namibia. Janse’s aim is to be 100% African in all her produce – she’s 80% there.

Margot Janse, the hero behind a “nine-course African-inspired Surprise Menu”.

For the rest of the Top 50, have a look here.

Two other restaurants, Rust en Vrede from Stellenbosch and La Colombe in Constantia, also made the Top 100 at numbers 61 and 82 respectively.

[Source: The World’s 50 Best]