Sun 14 Sep 2008
Table Mountain tops Cape Town Award
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Table Mountain has won the Best Attraction category in the Good Hope FM Best of Cape Town Awards held last night. The Award nominees were nominated by Capetonians, and the winners were selected on the basis of sms votes by locals.
Canal Walk won as the Best Shopping Center, and its Woolworths store won the Best Store award. The Best Architectural Design award went to the Cape Town International Convention Centre, the Best Accommodation award went to the Vineyard Hotel, and Grande Provence won the best Restaurant Award. Best Product Award went to Woza Cape Town, a dance theatre group based in District Six.
Cape Town’s golden girl Natalie du Toit, who has won 5 gold medals at the Paralympics in Beijing, was voted as a Cape Town Achiever, as was the Stormers rugby team.
One wonders how the voting took place in some of the award categories, given that the audience profile of Good Hope FM is predominantly Cape Flats-based. Grande Provence is not based in Cape Town but in Franschhoek, and charges an exhorbitant R 250 for a 2-course dinner. It is currently a Top 10 restaurant, but has just fallen off the Prudential Eat Out Top 20 restaurant nominee list. So too, the Vineyard Hotel could hardly have been tried by most “Good Hopers”, with a current entry level double room rate of R 2 045, and with rates over R 5 000 in December.
