Restaurant awards

  • Top 50 gastropubs revealed - Unruly Pig tops the list, The Guinea is the best in London

    Top 50 gastropubs revealed - Unruly Pig tops the list, Guinea best in London

    The reveal of the Top 50 Gastropubs of 2022 yesterday makes it the first big awards of the year to be announced. Topping the list for the first time is The Unruly Pig, the Suffolk pub with chef Dave Wall behind the

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  • The Hot Dinners 2021 awards - the complete review of the year

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    It's that time of year again! We're taking a look back at a year of dining - where we finally emerged from lockdown for an extended (and hopefully permanent) period. London's restaurant scene slowly built itself back up and there were some wonderful new restaurants. Here's our round-up of 2021.

  • The AA announces new rosettes for SOLA, KOL, Myrtle and more...

    The AA annuounces new rosettes for SOLA, KOL, Myrtle and more...

    We're in the depths of awards season at the moment and the latest to be unveiled are the AA Rosettes, one of two notable motor companies producing restaurant awards right now. The most prestigious of the AA awards are the three and four rosettes - and that's what was given out today, steering towards the high-end side of UK dining. It's the 65th year these awards have been handed out -

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  • World's 50 Best Restaurants list sees Noma regain the No 1 position for 2021

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    The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards are back - and Noma is at the top again.

    Antwerp was the scene for this year's announcement - the first for two years. The festivities kicked off with Massimo Bottura doing the red carpet arrivals. And we have to hope that everyone attending was required to take tests or be fully vaccinated based on his effusive welcoming of them all. It also looked like the dress code had been

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  • The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2021 - the complete list

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    Hot Dinners takes a closer look at the top ten restaurants from the 2021 World's 50 Best Restaurants List to find out what's so great about them.

  • The World’s 50 Best Restaurants reveal 51 to 100 for 2021, with two new London entries

    The World’s 50 Best Restaurants reveal 51 to 100 for 2021, with two new London entries

    Update 5/10/21 - And here is the full rundown of the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2021.

    Original story follows...

    You could be excused for wondering how the World’s 50 Best Restaurants could pull together a (fair)

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  • Fortnum & Mason reveal their Food & Drink Awards for 2021

    Fortnum & Mason reveal their Food & Drink Awards for 2021

    Awards (and awards parties) are well and truly back, with the latest being the return of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drinks Awards. The event took place last night at their Royal Exchange outpost where TV personalities like James Martin rubbed shoulders with Hollywood legend Stanley Tucci and chefs including Jose Pizarro and Calum Franklin. In charge of proceedings

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  • Moor Hall tops the UK's 100 best restaurants list for 2021

    Moor Hall leads the National Restaurant Awards list for 2021  

    For the second year in the row Mark Birchall's Moor Hall has come in at number one on the National Restaurant Awards top 100 UK restaurants list. The list, which took  a break last year due to the pandemic, rounds up the top 100 restaurants in the UK, as chosen by voters made up of chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and critics.

    Taking the coveted top

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  • Davies and Brook, Daffodil Mulligan and more win at the GQ Food & Drink awards

    Davies & Brook, Daffodil Mulligan and more win at the GQ Food & Drink awards

    As we emerge from several lockdowns blinking into the light, we're starting to see more (albeit scaled back) actual awards shows take place and the latest of these is the yearly GQ Food and Drink Awards. Presented at Nobu Portman Square by the person who's frankly the best at this, Claudia Winkleman, it saw Daniel Humm's Davies & Brook at Claridge's take the top

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  • The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards returns for 2021

    The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards returns for 2021

    It skipped a year for 2020, for obvious reasons, but the World's 50 Best ceremony is making a comeback later this year. 

    Plans have been confirmed for the awards ceremony to take place on 5 October 2021 in Antwerp. The organisers have also said they're aiming for an in-person event, so fingers crossed for a lessening of Covid restrictions (and Covid, of course) by that

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  • The best of 2020's eating out (and in) - The Hot Dinners Awards

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    Our annual round up of virtual gongs for the best food and drink we've enjoyed over the past twelve months.

  • The AA reveals new London rosettes for 2020/21 with Muse and The Ritz getting four each

    The AA reveals new London rosettes for 2020/21 with Muse and The Ritz getting four each

    There may be a pandemic on, but there's still plenty of room for awards season. While Michelin is delayed until next year, The AA has announced this year's new rosettes (with a virtual ceremony, of course). 

    The rosettes run from one to five - with the latter being particularly rare. With that in mind, here's who got an award this year (just focusing on London and on the top

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  • GQ's 2020 Food and Drink Awards name Sketch as best restaurant

    GQ's 2020 Food and Drink Awards name Sketch as best restaurant

    Normally this is the time of year that restaurant awards season kick off. But with the Michelin stars delayed until next year and physical ceremonies decidedly off the cards - not to mention a four-month gap when nothing was open - it's a little quieter than usual this year. 

    But that hasn't stopped GQ, who have just revealed their restaurant awards for 2020. Their choice as best restaurant of the year, The

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  • London's pizza joints and cocktail bars win big on the world stage

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    The news is bleak. We know that. So, frankly, we're going to take the wins where we can find them and over the past week or so London has done rather well on that front. We may be an international laughing stock over our response to Covid, but at least when it comes to pizzas and cocktails we're world-beating.

    Pizzas first. The 50 Top Pizza Europe 2020 list came out just before the weekend and London

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  • Jancis Robinson wins big in the 2020 James Beard Awards

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    Over in America, the 2020 James Beard Award have been announced and there were several British names up for contention.

    If you haven't heard of the awards, think of these as a stateside Oscars, if you like, of the food world. They started 30 years ago and since then have become a barometer of what's hot (and cool) in the culinary world, recognising chefs, restaurants and food writers alike.

    This year's winners and shortlisted

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