S. African restaurant named best in world

PARIS - A tiny beach restaurant in an isolated South African fishing village was named the best in the world on Monday.

Chef Kobus Van der Merwe, who did not begin to cook seriously until he was 30, forages every day for ingredients on the wild Atlantic shore of the Western Cape near his Wolfgat restaurant, where he also makes his own bread and butter.

The Wolfgat - whose six mostly female staff have no formal training - opened just two years ago in a 130-year-old cottage and cave on the beach at Paternoster.