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A total of 11 places in the county have been recognised across six different categories.
Featuring: Taj Tandoori in Cambridge, Gonville Hotel Cambridge, Kaimas Lithuanian Restaurant Peterborough, NATA Lisboa Peterborough, The Station House at Histon, Barracuda Fish Bar Cambridge, Aromi in Cambridge, Coxs at the Lighthouse, The Red House at Longstowe, Little Petra Jordanian Cafe in Cambridge & Causeway Royal Fish Bar in Whittlesey.
Oswestry’s Powis Market Hall to welcome new kitchen and cafe.
Featuring: Old School House at Owestry.
A total of six places in Leicestershire and two in Rutland have been recognised across six different categories. Founded in 2002, the Good Food Awards aim to recognise eateries across the UK that go the extra mile and “strive for culinary excellence within their field”.
Featuring: St Martins Coffee Shop Leicester, Off the Beaten Path in Melton Mowbray, Ragdale Hall Spa, Konak Authentic Turkish Cuisine Leicester, The Fish Shack in Wigston, Square Pizza Company in Leicester, The Kings Arms Inn at Wing & The Old White Hart at Lyddington.
The hotels have won a Good Hotel Award 2023.
Featuring: The Swan Hotel and Spa, Applegarth Villa and Restaurant & Another Place – The Lake.
The independent awards are free to enter and the votes are cast by the public, with five categories recognising culinary excellence.
Featuring: Haggle Restaurant Norwich, Bann Thai Restaurant in Cromer, Cafe 33 Norwich, Prima Rosa in Salhouse, Grosvenor Fish Bar Norwich, No1 Cromer, Chish and Fips Norwich, The Kings Head at Bawburgh, The Three Horseshoes in Briston, The Langham Blue Bell, The Angel at Watlington, Brick Pizza in Norwich, Congham Hall Hotel & Spa & Potters Resorts Hopton on Sea.
A number of Northern Irish restaurants have been recognised as the top in the UK at the Good Food Awards 2023.
Featuring: Gattos Ristorante Ballymena, The Welcome Restaurant in Belfast, Embers Armagh, The Boathouse Antrim, Sperrin Restaurant Omagh, Bishops Gate Hotel Gown Restaurant Derry & The Lighthouse Bar and Grill Donaghadee.
We receive excellent feedback from our customers about our food, but to get this independent recognition is brilliant and will hopefully firmly put us on the map as a fine dining establishment.
Featuring: Memsahibs Lounge Cheltenham.
The highly respected guide has released its list of latest successes.
Featuring: Rustique Restaurant York, No10 Cafe Bar and Bistro in York, The White Bull Restaurant Cawthorne, Butcher and Baker in Allerton Bywater, Tharavadu Leeds, Bab Tooma Grande Bradford, La Coppola in Sheffield & Turnip and Thyme in Sheffield.
Food establishments which receive a Good Food Award must have received high customer rating on food quality, service and value.
Featuring: Laynes Espresso Leeds, Butcher and Baker in Allerton Bywater, Tharavadu Leeds & Clarkies Traditional Fisheries Leeds.
We’ve only gone and done it again.
Featuring: Antonios Bar and Grill in Knowsley Village & Thai Cuisine Express Liverpool.
These are the Norwich winners in the Good Food Awards 2023.
Featuring: Haggle Restaurant Norwich, Cafe 33 Norwich, Prima Rosa in Salhouse, Grosvenor Fish Bar Norwich, Chish and Fips Norwich, The Kings Head at Bawburgh, & Brick Pizza in Norwich.
It has been recognised as one of the top places to eat in the UK.
Featuring: The Holcombe.
Three Hertfordshire cafes have won a Blue Ribbon Award at the Good Food Award.
Featuring: Kooky Nohmad at Royston, Four Seasons Cafe in Stevenage & Flourish Craft Bakery and Cafe.
Warrington restaurants have been recognised for the quality of their food by winning a prestigious national award.
Featuring: TAO in Warrington & San Lorenzo Restaurant Warrington.
Two Northern Irish eateries have been voted amongst the best in the UK at a recent food awards ceremony.
Featuring: Little Wing Pizzeria in Ann St Belfast & Collon Takeaway in Shantallow.
Three restaurants – each completely different – achieved the coveted blue ribbon
Featuring: The Wimborne Pig, Myras Kaiseki Dorchester & Shell Bay Seafood Restaurant Studland.
Delighting foodies since 2002, the annual Good Food Awards recognise best places to eat and drink at across the UK.
Featuring: Fat Buddha in Berkhamsted, Blue Orchid Thai Restaurant in Bedford, The Longholme Bedford, Walnut Tree Traditional Fish and Chips, Olive Tree Milton Keynes & Bogota Coffee Company Milton Keynes.
These establishments have been recognised amongst some of the biggest names in the game across the UK.
Featuring: Fish City in Belfast, Mortons at Ballycastle, The Chippy in Antrim, John Longs in Belfast & Docs Cafe, Fish and Chips in Newcastle NI.
The Blue Ribbon for Delicious Dishes is bestowed upon those with high customer ratings or votes.
Featuring: The Switch at Reading, Cafe Yolk in Reading, The Avenue Deli at Calcot, The Tasty Plaice Fish and Chips in Tilehurst & Golden Dragon in Reading.
Amid a flurry of food awards for the North East comes more good news for some of the region’s fish and chip shops which have been named among the UK’s best.
Featuring: Fenham Fish Bar, Chip and Fish at Benton, Dhillons Fish Inn at Throckley, Dhillons Fish Inn at Hebburn, Dhillons Fish Inn at Prudhoe, Downeys Fish and Chips West Rainton, Downeys Fish and Chips Barnes, Downeys Fish and Chips Pallion, Downeys Fish and Chips North Terrace, Downeys Fish and Chips Marine Walk, Golden Fish Inn at Consett, Olivers Takeaway Redcar & Olivers Restaurant Redcar.
There’s some great places right across Yorkshire you can visit.
Featuring: The Glass Strawberry Doncaster, The Treehouse Board Game Cafe, Lick: Ice Cream, Coffee & Shakes in Holmfirth, Coffeevolution Huddersfield, The Cake’ole Bradford, Laynes Espresso Leeds, Bliss Cafe Thirsk, The New Derwent Coffee Bar and Bistro in York, Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms York, Ponto Lounge in Hull & The Black Cat Hessle.
Whether you are looking for a Friday night fish and chip supper, top quality takeaway, lunch at a traditional cafe lunch or dinner at a bistro, Cumbria officially has some of the best places in the country to enjoy them.
Featuring: Frydays of Kendal, The Old Bank of Carlisle, Mr Hs Tearoom in Ambleside, Stanleys Coffeehouse & Kitchen at Kendal, Cafe Olive Kendal, Just Greek in Penrith & Thai Kitchen in Lakeland.
We’d like to thank our customers for voting for us in this one.
Featuring: Burger Island in Burntisland.
When it comes to rave reviews, Oakdale Chippy has stacks of them from satisfied customers. They praise the big portions, tasty food, value for money and friendly staff.
Featuring: Oakdale Chippy Bakersfield.
Passey’s on Portobello High Street has won awards before and now the café bar and bistro has been successful yet again in winning accolades for its good food and atmosphere.
Featuring: Passeys Portobello.
The restaurant also won a Good Food Award, following a record number of votes cast by readers, customers and fans.
Featuring: Spices and Spirits in Basingstoke.
From Indian to fried chicken, Lancashire’s eclectic range of takeaway cuisine has been recognised by a top industry award.
Featuring: Enzos Pizza Takeaway in Burnley, Mega Munch in Blackburn & Stubbins Tandoori in Ramsbottom.
The owners of a north Norfolk restaurant are “chuffed” after being named among the best in the country.
Featuring: No1 Cromer.
The awards, given out each year, are a badge of honour. The blue ribbon indicates top-quality food, while the gold seal shows that somewhere is among the best of the best.
Featuring: Cafe Boscanova Boscombe, Deli On The Quay Poole, Fish n Fritz in Weymouth, Chez Fred Fish and Chips in Westbourne & Da Mario Wood Fired Pizza in Westbourne.
Although Hampshire has plenty of Gastro Pubs scattered around the county, whether that be in cities like Portsmouth and Southampton, or small villages, it takes a lot for a Gastro Pub to be given special recognition.
Featuring: The Purefoy Arms in Preston Candover & The Watership Down Inn.
Little Petra is a family-run restaurant bringing Jordanian culture to Cambridge, where “it’s all about family eating together.”
Featuring: Little Petra Jordanian Cafe in Cambridge.
The Sussex coastline has some amazing fish and chip shops.
Featuring: Maggies Fish and Chips Hastings & Bardsleys in Brighton.
Bandidos Burritos recently won a Good Food Award, and it’s well deserved.
Featuring: Bandido Burritos in Swindon.
Mouth watering food, rave reviews and the cosy look were all things that drew me in, not to mention it’s recent award accolade which named it one of the best cafes in the UK.
Featuring: The Glass Strawberry Doncaster.
Two takeaways in Sussex won an award in the 2022 Good Food Awards.
Featuring: VIP Pizza Brighton in Kemptown & The Gorilla Kitchen at Thakeham.
One fish and chip shop received the top Good Food Awards 2023 accolade – the Gold Seal
Featuring: Atkinsons Fish and Chips at Morecambe & Bentleys Fish and Chips Shop Blackpool.
Two Yorkshire venues are celebrating after being ranked as some of the UK’s best gastropubs in the Good Food Awards 2023.
Featuring: Elephant and Castle Hemingfield & The Farrier at Cayton.
The prestigious awards has named a number of Merseyside winners.
Featuring: Yannis Fish and Chips Liverpool, Parkgate Fish and Chips, Thai Cuisine Express Liverpool, Antonios Bar and Grill in Knowsley Village, Khaja Indian Cuisine in Woolton, Rococo – Liverpool & Muzzys Breakfast House Wirral.
From restaurants to takeaways, cafes and hotels, businesses are celebrating wins in the latest highly-coveted awards.
Featuring: Peking Garden Stockton on Tees, Magpie Cafe Whitby, Off the Ground Coffee Middlesbrough, Olivers Takeaway Redcar, Olivers Restaurant Redcar, Trenchers Restaurant & Crathorne Hall Hotel.
If you have a hankering for fish and chips these are some of the very best to visit.
Featuring: Whitbys at Rotherham, Clarkies Traditional Fisheries Leeds, Sea Urchin in Ossett, Harry’s Fish Bar and Restaurant, Trenchers Restaurant, Hill Top Village Fisheries Slaithwaite, Friendly Fisheries at Sowerby Bridge, Marks Fish and Chips in Scarborough, Olivers Takeaway Redcar & Olivers Restaurant Redcar.
A prestigious food award has been bestowed upon both a Cheshire farm shop and Chester city centre coffee venue – placing them in the same company as the UK’s best cafés.
Featuring: Jaunty Goat Coffee Chester & The Lambing Shed Farmshop & Kitchen.
The Good Food Awards 2023 honours the finest cuisine in the country, and the winners have just been announced.
Featuring: The Street Food Chef, La Coppola in Sheffield, Turnip and Thyme in Sheffield, The Treehouse Board Game Cafe, The Glass Strawberry Doncaster, Harry’s Fish Bar and Restaurant Dunsville, Whitbys at Rotherham, Elephant and Castle Hemingfield, The White Bull Restaurant Cawthorne, Hackney House Cafe Barlow, Toll Bar Fish & Chip Shop, 1530 the Restaurant, No10 Cafe & Restaurant, The Harley Cafe Welbeck Farm Shop, Tredici Wood Fired Pizzeria, Ocean Fish Bar & Oliver’s Eatery Cleethorpes.
Two restaurants in North Staffordshire have been recognised at the Good Food Awards. The awards – which first started in 2002 – recognises businesses who strive for culinary excellence.
Featuring: No26 Waterside Restaurant Stone & Amore Italian Restaurant and Cafe in Newcastle.
Customers voted for their top choices with competition said to be “unsurprisingly tough”.
Featuring: St Georges Plaice in Coventry, Aldermans Green Fish Bar, Dhillons Plaice in Coventry & St Johns Fish Bar Warwick.
This autumn the Good Food Award winners for takeaways were announced and Surrey featured on the list twice.
Featuring: Runa Take Away in Byfleet & Micky Marzanos Wood Oven Pizza in Epsom.
Ascot’s premier Caribbean Street food restaurant has scooped a Blue Ribbon for Delicious Dishes in the Good Food Awards 2023.
Featuring: Blazin Soul Kitchen at Ascot.
This comes hot on the heels of last month’s Good Food Guide which said that Birmingham is one of the most exciting places to eat with three restaurants listed in its top 20. But, we know, that come Friday night, it’s fish and chips we’re after rather than haute cuisine.
Featuring: Rectory Road Fish Bar, Codsall Fish Bar, Smithfields Traditional Fish & Chips, St Georges Plaice in Coventry, Aldermans Green Fish Bar, Dhillons Plaice in Coventry & St Johns Fish Bar Warwick.
With cafes in Hull, Hessle and Stamford Bridge making the list, East Yorkshire has proven once again that it is home to some first-rate coffee shops.
Featuring: Ponto Lounge in Hull, The Black Cat Hessle & The New Derwent Coffee Bar and Bistro in York.
Serving fabulous food for more than 30 years. Now the family-run J-Henry’s Fish and Chips in Upper Northam Road, Hedge End, has won one of the prestigious 2023 Good Food Awards.
Featuring: J-Henry’s Fish & Chips of Hedge End.
A Portuguese seafood restaurant in Grantham has been announced as winners of the Good Food Award 2023.
Featuring: Tinel Seafood & Grill Restaurant.
This Chester restaurant’s food is so good ‘we take it away to friends in London’.
Featuring: Siam Thai & Teppan-Yaki Chester & San Lorenzo Restaurant Warrington.
The Good Food Awards have been running since 2002. This year, organisers say the competition had a record number of entrants and votes cast.
Featuring: Tandoori Lounge at Hornchurch & Fat Pizza in Hornchurch.
Seven businesses across the county achieved the coveted blue ribbon.
Featuring: Darkroom Espresso Swindon, Rios Brazil Swindon, Phillips Traditional Fish & Chips, Lucknam Park, Manor House Hotel and Golf Club & Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa Malmesbury.
The takeaways are among some of the best in the UK.
Featuring: Uni Kebab in Southampton & Chennai Express at Basingstoke.
Four Lancashire cafes have been successful in the Good Food Awards 2023.
Featuring: The Cafe Bar Preston, Black Sheep Tea Room Lytham St Annes, Black Sheep Tea Room & Quilligan’s Cafe Bar Blackpool.
The independent awards are free to enter and the votes are cast by the public, with five categories recognising culinary excellence.
Featuring: The Grazing Sheep Ipswich, Milk Shed Cafe Sproughton, Ipswich CodFellas, Aldeburgh Fish and Chip Ship, Bella Napoli in Ipswich, The Grill at Twenty5, The Swan at Lavenham Hotel & Spa & Crown and Castle Orford.
The owner of a business on the Nottinghamshire border has shared the secret of its success after winning an award for its mouthwatering meals. The Street Food Kitchen on College Road in Long Eaton won the 2023 Good Food Award Blue Ribbon.
Featuring: Street Food Kitchen in Long Eaton.
The restaurant won the blue ribbon award at the 2023 Good Food Awards.
Featuring: Turmeric Kitchen at 65.
Rectory Road Fish Bar got the Blue Ribbon for Delicious Dishes, which took factors including ‘high customer ratings, food quality, service and value’ into consideration. It placed it among the best in the UK and the best seven in the West Midlands.
Featuring: Rectory Road Fish Bar.
Yorkshire has some of the very best takeaways in the UK with them being celebrated in the Good Food Awards.
Featuring: The Taylor Made Kitchen in York, Poco Sicilian Street Food in Leeds, Chaiyo Thai in Brighouse & Street Food Kitchen in Long Eaton.
The Hertford restaurant has been praised for its high customer ratings.
Featuring: The Hummingbird Hertford.
The Littleborough business, run by husband and wife team Becky and Danny O’Neill, is the only local eatery to win a 2023 Good Food Blue Ribbon for Delicious Dishes this year after being voted for by members of the public.
Featuring: Busy Beans Coffee in Littleborough.
Seema, who has just been awarded another Good Food Award for 2022, said: “After the success of Poulton and the fine dining offering, we wanted to bring our quality, clean and fresh cooking to Lytham but with a twist.
Featuring: Dalvis Restaurant in Poulton le Fylde.
Muzzy’s Breakfast House was awarded the Blue Ribbon for Delicious Dishes in Good Food Awards after receiving the highest customer service ratings.
Featuring: Muzzys Breakfast House Wirral.
The Good Food Awards for Cafes 2023 hand picks the best cafes, bistros, sandwich shops, coffee houses and tea rooms from every corner of the UK and recognises them as the best in their field.
Featuring: Nobel Cafe Ballymena, The Scullery Cafe Londonderry & Established Coffee Belfast.
The Good Food Awards have been announced for 2023 – and we have three winners in the heart of York!
Featuring: Rustique Restaurant York, Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms York, The Taylor Made Kitchen in York, Middlethorpe Hall and Spa, The New Derwent Coffee Bar and Bistro in York, Bliss Cafe Thirsk & The Farrier at Cayton.
Loulabelle’s specialises in home baking and also caters for the vegan and gluten-free market although most customers opt for their famous Bakewell tarts.
Featuring: Loulabelles – Innerleithen.
Two other Lancashire hotels were also recognised in the Good Hotel Awards 2023.
Featuring: Stay Lytham Serviced Apartments, Northcote at Langho & The Spa Hotel at Ribby Hall Village.
A local chippy has received a prestigious Good Food Award.
Featuring: Yannis Fish and Chips Liverpool.
The Ullapool-based café takes inspiration from the owner’s New Zealand background, and their passion for good quality produce.
Featuring: Cult Cafe at Ullapool.
None of this would be possible without the dedication and support of our fabulous team and customers.
Featuring: Harrys Sandwiches and Coffee Bar at Abergavenny.
The eatery has been granted the awards scheme’s Gold Seal, described by bosses as a “mark of distinction”. It comes after customers rated the Gurkha Lounge highly and voted for it to win.
Featuring: Gurkha Curry Lounge in Burton upon Trent.
Best fish and chips places in Ipswich have been recognised nationally a lot over the last couple of years
Featuring: Nacton Road Fish Bar & Ipswich CodFellas.
A Windsor cafe has been awarded a Good Food Award for its excellence within the field.
Featuring: Cinnamon Cafe Windsor.
Casa 17, in Westgate, has just won the coveted Good Food Award, an independent web-based scheme which has been running for 20 years recognising annually those who strive for culinary excellence within their field and is based on hygiene ratings, reviews, comments and votes cast by readers, customers and food fans.
Featuring: Casa 17 Sleaford.
A POPULAR Parkgate fish and chip shop has won a Good Food Award for 2023.
Featuring: Parkgate Fish and Chips.
La Verne Vintage, which has already already been named the best coffee shop in Tyne and Wear at the England Business Awards, is now up for a Good Food Award.
Featuring: La Verne Vintage.
It comes after its customers cast votes and ratings for the eatery, in the Latchford area of Warrington, to win. Of the 949 reviews left on its website, it scores an average of 4.9 out of five.
Featuring: FishNet in Latchford East Warrington.
Doncaster winners in the Blue Ribbon awards for cafes, and fish and chips, were The Glass Strawberry, 48-50 Printing Office Street, Doncaster, DN1 1TR; and Harry’s Fish Bar and Restaurant, 18 High Street, Hatfield, DN7 4BP. Well done.
Featuring: The Glass Strawberry Doncaster & Harry’s Fish Bar and Restaurant Dunsville.
A family-run cafe which opened in 2018 has been recognised with an award voted for by customers.
Featuring: Ghales Coffee Lounge.
The Plaza Cafe in Blackwood has been named one of the best in the UK.
Featuring: Fish Kitchen 1854 at Maesycwmmer & The Plaza Cafe at Blackwood.
The landlords of a fine dining north Norfolk pub say they are thrilled to be nominated for a national award after only taking over the pub one year ago
Featuring: The Three Horseshoes in Briston.
Launching the restaurant was an especially proud moment for co-owner Baabzi Miah.
Featuring: Baabzi Indian Takeaway in Warwick.
The Good Food Awards has announced 34 Welsh winners.
Featuring: HILLS in Brecon, Tamarind Restaurant and Bar Tredegar, Casa Bianca in Abergavenny, The Gaff in Abergavenny, Bistro Bermo in Barmouth, Isabellas of Porthcawl, Madtom Seafood Cafe Bar in Narbeth, Y Sgwar in Tremadog, Lois Cupcakes in Bethesda, Garden Hotel and Cantonese Restaurant in Bangor, The Midland Tapas and Wine Bar in Beaumaris, Sandy Mount House in Anglesey, Gem 42 in Newport, Keyif Restaurant Penarth, Dragon Palace in Pentlepoir, Harrys Sandwiches and Coffee Bar at Abergavenny, Fish Kitchen 1854 at Maesycwmmer, Plassey Fish Bar in Penarth, O My Cod at Bridgend, Crisp and Fry in Cross Hands, Village Plaice in Trimsaran, Traditional No8 Fish and Chips, New Celtic Restaurant in Aberaeron, Fishermans Fish and Chip Shop Conwy, Archway Fish and Chips in Conwy, Zeera Indian Takeaway in Pontyclun, The Ship Inn at Aberporth, Ferry Inn at Cardigan, JT Abergwaun Hotel at Fishguard, Britannia Inn of Llanmadoc, Brit Pub of Cwmavon, The Swan at Higher Kinnerton, Jolly Colliers Inn at Waenllapria & The Lamb and Flag at Wick.
A hotel in Lancashire has been named as the Good Hotel Award 2022 winner.
Featuring: Northcote Hotel
A number of businesses in Leicestershire and Rutland have reason to celebrate after being named among the UK’s best.
Featuring: The King’s Arms at Wing, Off The Beaten Path in Melton Mowbray, Square Pizza Company Leicester, The Old White Hart at Lyddington & Ragdale Hall Spa at Melton Mowbray
Suffolk winners in the Good Food Awards 2022.
Featuring: The Swan at Lavenham Hotel & Spa, The Grill at Twenty5 in Ipswich, Lady Florence River Cruise Restaurant & Ipswich CodFellas
Eight Liverpool city region restaurants have been recognised in the latest Good Food Awards list and Antonio’s in Knowsley is among them.
Featuring: Thai Cuisine Express Liverpool, Silk Road Liverpool, Antonios Bar and Grill Knowsley Village, Silk Road Heswall, Khaja Indian Cuisine in Woolton, Salt and Pepper House in Liverpool, The Whistle Stop Cafe at Southport & Yannis Fish and Chips Liverpool.
The awards recognise culinary excellence.
Featuring: Turmeric Kitchen 65, Knights Fish Restaurant, Zen Thai Gourmet Thai Cuisine, The Blue Fish Co. & Rainbows End Cafe.
The awards are bestowed on popular establishments with excellent food and customer service.
Featuring: Gurkha Durbaar in Peterborough, Little Petra Jordanian Cafe in Cambridge & Polonia Club in Cambridge
The prestigious awards named eight Merseyside winners.
Featuring: Thai Cuisine Express Liverpool, Silk Road Liverpool, Antonios Bar and Grill Knowsley Village, Silk Road Heswall, Khaja Indian Cuisine in Woolton, Salt and Pepper House in Liverpool, The Whistle Stop Cafe at Southport & Yannis Fish and Chips Liverpool.
Hot on the heels of being awarded a coveted Good Food Award Gold Seal for 2022.
Featuring: No26 Waterside Restaurant Aston Marina
A CONTEMPORARY, fine-dining restaurant located in the heart of a town has received top marks in a national food award.
Featuring: Base Restaurant in Ulverston
A stylish hotel in Bedford has won the Good Hotel Awards Gold Seal for yet another year.
Featuring: Verve Hotel at Bedford
It can be hard to find the perfect fish and chips.
Featuring: North Sea Fish Restaurant in London, Brockleys Rock, The Catch Fish and Chips in Harrow, Barracuda in Harrow, Goodmayes Fish and Chips in Ilford & Seven Kings Fish Bar in Ilford
The Good Food Awards are given to the best restaurants in the UK for their service and food standards.
Featuring: The Hummingbird Hertford, Fat Buddha in Berkhamsted & Four Seasons Cafe in Stevenage.
A Norfolk cafe has been recognised with a prestigious national award for the first time.
Featuring: Garden Kitchen Cafe and Event Caterers in Norfolk
