Cape Town’s FYN restaurant has been ranked number 37 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurant List, with La Colombe, also in Cape Town, and the small restaurant Wolfgat on the West Coast rated among the World’s Top 100.
Votes were cast by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy: 1,080 leading restaurant critics, chefs, restaurateurs & gourmets from 27 regions globally.
Placing at number 37, FYN joins the ranks of previous veritable rockstars of the restaurant world.
That it has yet again been listed by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in its brief three-and-a-half-year lifespan, is nothing short of remarkable as it was only established in 2019, under the helm of Chef Peter Tempelhoff.
It was April as Peter was visiting his mum and dad in Durban that a call from his team came in, they’d spotted an email suspiciously headed “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022” succeeded by a confidentiality warning.
Surreal doesn’t begin to describe the moments that followed.
“We had to read it and re read it a few times, sending it to each other to pick it apart and ensure there was no mistake,” he recalls.
Beyond the honour of making the cut at all, their scepticism was rooted in their 2021 ranking by the same body when they made the 51 to 100 list.
But it was true, FYN appeared to have jumped from 92 to 37 within the top 50 in just a year!
