Taste Cheshire Food and Drink Awards 2015 #Blog

Hannah Lucy
10th April 2015

At a Black Tie dinner held in the Pavilion at Chester Racecourse over 300 of Cheshire’s hospitality sector turned out to crown this years winners of the Taste Cheshire Food and Drink Awards. Held annually for the last 14 years these awards are voted for by the public, with over 20,000 votes cast and then each of the top 4/5 venues in each Category is mystery dined or shopped to come up with the roll of honour.

The awards complete an amazing few days of Food and Drink focus around Chester and Cheshire as record numbers of 29,700 attended the 3 day festival over Easter held at the racecourse. Taste Cheshire General Manager, Hannah Lucy described the number of votes cast as “Simply phenomenal. In 2014 we had over 5,000 votes and this year that number exceeded 20,000 a 400% increase. The public have definitely voted and they have told us exactly who they want winning our awards. To my knowledge there is no awards for our sector anywhere in the country with anything like this number of votes cast. My sincere congratulations to every venue or business nominated and the list shows us that right now the Cheshire hospitality scene has never been better”.

Best Sandwich Shop sponsored by Roomzzz

Gold Deli-Vert
Silver Philpotts
Bronze Bloom

Best New Comer sponsored by The Cheshire Magazine

Gold The Millstone
Silver Chime
Bronze Gin Rickey’s and Luke’s Eating House

Best Deli sponsored by The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts

Gold Deli-Vert
Silver Hawarden Estate Farm Shop
Bronze Spoilt for Choice

Best Café sponsored by Power Solutions

Gold Enzo
Silver Café.com
Bronze Little Yellow Pig, Hoole

Best Bar sponsored by Dee 106.3

Gold The Suburbs
Silver Barlounge
Bronze Kuckoo

Best Pub sponsored by Cheshire West and Chester Council

Gold The Egerton Arms, Little Budworth
Silver George & Dragon
Bronze Coach House

Small Restaurant sponsored by ReFood

Gold The Chef’s Table
Silver Piste
Bronze Upstairs at the Grill

Large Restaurant sponsored by Allington Hughes

Gold Hickory’s Smokehouse
Silver Restaurant 1539
Bronze The Chester Fields

Local Produce Shop sponsored by Made in Cheshire

Gold Cheerbrook Farm Shop
Silver Hawarden Estate Farm Shop
Bronze The Hollies Farm Shop

Family friendly sponsored by Claire House

Gold The White Horse
Silver Ring o’ Bells
Bronze George & Dragon

Local produce in a menu sponsored by Taste Cheshire

Gold George & Dragon
Silver The Chef’s Table
Bronze The Chester Fields

Excellence in Customer Care sponsored by Marketing Cheshire

Gold Hawarden Farm Shop
Silver The Egerton Arms
Bronze Chime

2015 Sausage of the Festival sponsored by NowFood

Plain Winner EW Edge and Son
Flavoured Winner Dutton’s of Kelsall
Overall Winner Dutton’s of Kelsall

Sous Chef Challenge sponsored by We Love Cheshire

Winner Matt Egan