Review your favourite burger joint for this year’s Best Everyday Eateries.

We’re calling on our readers to rate and review the casual restaurants they love to visit regularly to put them in the running for the 2016 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries. The winners per category per province are determined by the highest average star ratings between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016.

The 2015 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries celebration in Johannesburg. Photo by Eat Out.

The categories for 2016 are as follows:

Best African Eatery
Best Asian Eatery
Best Bistro
Savanna Best Burger Eatery
Best Coffee Shop
Best Country-Style Eatery
Best Indian Eatery
Best Italian Eatery
Best Seafood Eatery
Best Steakhouse
Best Food Truck (new)
Best Tapas Eatery (new)
Best Mexican Eatery (new)

The Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries were held for the first time in 2015, with 10 categories for each province. (See the winners here.) However, to reflect trends across the country, we decided to add the three new categories for 2016 – for Best Food Truck, Best Tapas Eatery and Best Mexican Eatery. Mercedes-Benz is sponsoring these accolades for the second consecutive year.

The team from Inside & You’re Out (IYO) Burgers going up to collect their award for Best Burger Eatery in the Western Cape at the 2015 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries celebration in Cape Town. Photo by Eat Out.

How the Best Everyday Eateries work

Over the course of the year, members of the public visit our site to rate and review the eateries they’ve visited recently. In each of the categories for each province, the qualifying restaurants with the highest average star ratings between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016 will be eligible to win. There will be two celebrations of the winners in October 2016 – one in Gauteng and one in Cape Town. Restaurants that perform well in their category but don’t meet all the criteria to win are eligible for ‘highly commended’ certificates. (These accolades are separate to the existing Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards, which celebrate the country’s best fine-dining restaurants.)

The team from Massimo’s going up to collect their highly commended certificate in the category of Best Italian Eatery in the Western Cape at the Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries in Cape Town. Photo by Eat Out.

Review, make a difference and stand a chance to win

For each review posted, we’ll pledge a meal for a hungry child through Stop Hunger Now SA. Eat Out is also giving away R1000 to one lucky reviewer per month until the end of September 2016. All the reviews written in the year period until that date will influence which restaurants take home the top prizes in each category.

Write a review now.