London leads in the shortlist for the GQ Food & Drink Awards
The shortlist for the inaugural GQ Food & Drink Awards has just been released and London is, as you'd imagine, pretty well represented in the final line-up, taking up 31 out of a possible 48 places The categories, whose winners will be announced at an award ceremony in April are as follows (out of London shortlisted contenders are italicised):
Best Restaurant
- Café Murano
- Gymkhana
- L’Enclume
- Restaurant Nathan Outlaw
- The Ledbury
- The Palomar
Best Bar
Mr Fogg’s Nightjar The Connaught Bar The Devil’s Advocate The Milk Thistle White LyanBest Chef
Jason Atherton Nieves Barragán Mohacho Angela Hartnett Glynn Purnell Tom Sellers Martin Wishart Best Sommelier
David Galetti at Le Gavroche Stefan Newmann at Dinner By Heston Blumenthal Laure Patry at Pollen Street Social Adam Pawlowski at Northcote Michael & Charlotte Sager-Wilde at Sager+Wilde and Mission Michael Simms at SartoriaBest Pub
The Anglesea Arms The Camberwell Arms The Duke of Cumberland (Henley, West Sussex) The Lord Poulett Arms (Hinton-St-George, Somerset) The White Horse (West Sussex) The Yew Tree Inn (Bunbury, Cheshire) Best Interior
Berners Tavern (at London Edition) Coworth Park Fera (at Claridges) Old Tom & English Scott’s SketchBest Front Of House
Jesus Adorno at Le Caprice David Boyd at Aqua Shard Daniel Greenock at Marcus Diego Masciaga at The Waterside Inn Matthew Mawtus at Pollen Street Social Darius Namdar at The Colony Grill RoomBest Hotel
Claridge’s Cromlix (Dunblane, Perthshire) Gidleigh Park (Devon) The Beaumont The Merchant (Belfast) The Pig On The Beach (Studland Bay, Dorset) 
