There were some interesting results at last night’s Tatler Laurent-Perrier & Taste of London Restaurant Awards 2010.
While Best Kitchen for Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley wasn’t a real surprise, perhaps the magazine’s choice of It Room – the Brompton Bar and Grill – and Restaurateur of the Year, which went to Ben and Hugo (better known as Benugo) for the Serpentine Bar and Kitchen was an unusual choice as was Best Newcomer for Kitchen W8 rather than Hix Soho, Galvin La Chapelle or even Polpo. Although Hot Dinners was most taken aback by the inclusion of the Oxo Tower as a runner-up in the Consistently Excellent section.
Certainly it was a good night for Chris and Jeff Galvin who picked up the top prize of Restaurant of the Year for Galvin La Chapelle, as well as scoring runners-up positions for It Room, the afore-mentioned Best Newcomer slot and Restaurateur of the Year.
Special mentions went to Stephen Williams of The Harwood Arms who won the Taste of London best newcomer of the year and Terence Conran who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The rest of the results were as follows:
Best wine list and sommelier: Nicolas Clerc at Le Pont de la Tour, 36d Shad Thames, SE1
Runners up:
Thierry Tomasin and Charles Béani at Angelus
Ivo Stoyanov at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Noleen Strauss at High Timber
Kumiko Samba at Umu
Best front of house: Christian Laval at Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
Runners up:
Achille Checuz at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Arun Harnal at Bombay Brasserie
Franco Becci at The Landau at The Langham
Guillaume Glipa at Zuma
Best Kitchen: Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley
Runners up:
The Kitchin
Lecture Room & Library at Sketch
RokaTerroirs
Best Newcomer: Kitchen W8
Runners up:
Galvin la Chapelle
Hix, Soho
Polpo
Roka Canary Wharf
Restaurateur of the Year: Ben and Hugo Warner (Benugo, Serpentine Bar and Kitchen)
Runners up:
Chris & Jeff Galvin (Galvin La Chapelle, Bistro La Chapelle)
Nick Jones (Soho House)
Prescott & Conran (Lutyens, Boundary, Albion)
John Torode (The Luxe)
Consistently excellent: The Restaurant at The Goring
Runners up:
Bibendum
Chez Bruce
Club Gascon
Oxo Tower
The 'It' Room: Brompton Bar & Grill
Runners up:
Boundary
Dean Street Townhouse
Galvin La Chapelle
Pizza East
Taste of London Rising Star Award: Stephen Williams at The Harwood Arms
Runners up:
Tomonari Chiba at Dinings
Maria Elia at Whitechapel Gallery
Neil McCue at The Curlew, Bodiam
Stefano Turconi at Franco’s, 61 Jermyn Street
Laurent-Perrier Lifetime Achievement Award: Sir Terence Conran
Tatler Restaurant of the Year: Galvin la Chapelle
