Restaurant awards

  • London wins big at the British Kebab Awards 2019

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    The British Kebab Awards were held at the Park Plaza Westminster last night and London did pretty well out of it.

    Four of our restaurants picked up gongs on the night. Testiin Stoke Newington won for best North/West London kebab. Lara Grill in Dagenham won the section for South/East

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  • The winners of the 2019 World Restaurant Awards are revealed

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    The winners of the first  World Restaurant Awards have been announced. Firmly placing the laurels on their head for 2019 is South Africa's Wolfgat, whose foraged ingredients and fresh seafood saw them take home Restaurant of the year and win the Off-map destination category. 

    Meanwhile, London's very own Noble

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  • World Restaurant Awards 2019 shortlist announced

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    The battle of the restaurant awards is fully on. The day after the World's 50 Best announced a major shake-up, the new kid on the block The World Restaurant Awards countered with the release of its shortlist for its inaugural awards.

    The UK has a decent enough showing - we merit ten

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  • World's 50 Best Restaurants list unveil radical changes for 2019

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    Big news in from the World's 50 Best Restaurants list today. They're introducing a raft of changes to the voting system and judging panels.

    In an announcement today they revealed that anyone who's topped the list before will now no longer be eligible for the list but will enter a Hall of Fame style list - the Best of the Best "which will comprise all those establishments that have been voted No.1 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list over its 17-year

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  • Hot Dinners readers pick their best new restaurants of 2018

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  • Cornerstone and more bring home OFM Awards at the 2018 ceremony

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    It's always one of the biggest foodie events of the year, where a huge amount of chefs and restaurateurs from across the country gather together in London for a damned fine night out. It's also one of the most efficiently-run awards ceremonies around (sticking to 30 minutes - a template for how awards ceremonies should be run).

    Last night's event was no exception with the evening's festivities presided over by Nigella Lawson and the newspaper's restaurant critic, Jay Rayner -

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  • Here are all the London Tastemakers on this year's Evening Standard Progress 1000 List

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    Last night, the Evening Standard dropped its annual Progress 1000 list - its roundup of the most influential people in London - at a glitzy party in newly refurbed Leake Street Arches. While the Kingdom Choir, from the royal wedding, tore down the house with a rendition of Stormzy's Blinded by the Light (both they and he were on the list), Hot Dinners wandered around trying to spot London's influential food and drink folk. In total 73 made the

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  • 5 things to order at World's Best Female Chef Clare Smyth's restaurant Core

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    It's been quite a year for London chef Clare Smyth. In April Core was named Best Restaurant at the GQ Restaurant Awards and Clare was announced as the - wait for it - elit Vodka World’s Best Female Chef for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018 <draws breath>. In September she stormed straight on the Good Food Guide at No 3 ...

  • Core by Clare Smyth and Kitchen Table are London's new two Michelin-starred restaurants

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    The great and the good of the food world assembled at the IMAX cinema in Waterloo today for the grand reveal of the new Michelin stars for 2019. 180 chefs turned up for the ceremony which was quite different to previous reveals with the guide going for much more of a red carpet impact.

    After a slightly excruciating introduction which was roundly panned by chefs watching the show live on Facebook, the presenters brought

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  • London's Michelin starred restaurants for 2019

    London's Michelin starred restaurants for 2019The results are in! Here are all the details about London's new Michelin stars for restaurants in the 2019 guide.

  • The Michelin Guide reveals London's four new Bib Gourmands for 2019

    bibs2018sliderAs London gears up for the Michelin star awarding ceremony on Monday, the guide has today released news of its new Bib Gourmand awards...

  • Here are all the winners from the 2018 YBFs

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    Last night's YBFs saw them - in their own words - "shining a spotlight on the future stars of the British food & drink industry". Here's who won in the awards' seventh year.

    Honorary Award
    Alice Planel & Kees Frederiks from Stroud Dairy

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  • Here's how the World Restaurant Awards is going to shake things up

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    The World Restaurant Awards are going to take place in Paris next February.  Here, founder Joe Warwick (who also wrote the original article that spawned the World’s 50 Best Restaurants) explains how it’s going to change the international restaurant awards landscape.

  • Core, Bibendum, Sabor and Dinner by Heston are London's big winners at the AA Awards

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    Last night's AA Hospitality Awards at Grosvenor House saw a number of London chefs and restaurants given reason to party into the small hours. Those with sore heads this morning probably include teams who picked up the following gongs.

    Chef's Chef - Claude Bosi

    "Twenty years on from arriving in the UK, Claude’s passion for his craft remains undiminished as does his commitment to the stove."

    London

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  • Core by Clare Smyth storms on to the 2019 Good Food Guide's Top 50 list with a perfect 10 score

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    Autumn may be a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness but it's also the time of year for restaurant awards. Hardens are about to have theirs. Michelin are gearing up to announce their stars and that's followed by the Tatler Restaurant Guide coming out. But the first out of the doors is the publication of the annual Good Food Guide and, in particular, its list of the 50 best restaurants in the UK.

    The 2019

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