This year's London Restaurant Festival drew to a close with an awards ceremony last night at 1901 at the Andaz London Hotel, Liverpool Street. In addition to celebrating the winners of various festival menus including Cinnamon Kitchen, Treadwell’s and Oxo Tower Brasserie they also gave out a series of awards covering the year in the London restaurant industry. And it was a pretty good year for Jordan Frieda and Tim Siadatan from Padella and Trullo - they walked away with two awards and two runners-up mentions.
And it was a pretty good year for Jordan Frieda and Tim Siadatan from Padella and Trullo - they walked away with two awards and two runners-up mentions.
Most welcoming Front of House - Jordan Frieda, Trullo and Padella
Runners up:
Will Lander - Clipstone and Portland
Paisley Tara-Kennet – Noble Rot
Team Zedel
Best Interior Design - Spring
Runners up:
Bao Fitzrovia
Fera
Kiln
Best Restaurant Bar - 45 Jermyn St.
Runners up:
The Clove Club
Smoking Goat
Sosharu
Best Wine Event - Leyda at Inamo Covent Garden
Runners up:
Cecchi at Crab Tavern
Chivate at Barrafina
Ferrari at The Sanderson
Maverick of the Year - Carl Clarke, Chick N Sours
Runners up:
Freddie Jansen – Lyle’s and FAT
James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy - Pidgin
Wine Idol - P Franco
Runners up:
Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew – Noble Rot
10 Cases
Ed Wilson - Brawn
Dish of the Year - Pici cacio e pepe, Padella
Runners up:
Deep fried Sea Bass – Som Saa
Black cod bao – Bao Fitzrovia
Squid ink flatbread – Black Axe Mangal
Newcomer of the Year - Ben Chapman, Smoking Goat and Kiln
Runners up:
Selin Kiazim – Oklava
Marianna Leivaditaki - Morito Hackney Road
Tim Spedding – P Franco
Outstanding Contribution to the Restaurant Industry - Sam and Sam Clarke, Moro and Morito (pictured)
Chef of the Year - Merlin Labron-Johnson, Portland, Clipstone
Runners up:
Adam Byatt – Trinity
Eyal Jagermann – The Barbay
Tim Siadatan – Trullo and Padella
Restaurant of the Year 2016 - Som Saa
Runners up:
Lyle’s
Noble Rot
Padella
Sam and Sam Clark photo by Alex Maguire
