UK Best Dishes Awards 2006

RESTAURANT MAGAZINE REDEFINES UK’S GASTRONOMIC MAP

The spotlight swings from London to Belfast, up to Scotland and down to Dartmoor.


On Monday 23rd October, Restaurant Magazine announces the winners of the UK Best Dishes Awards 2006. The diverse shortlist of restaurants ranges from star-studded London establishments of international repute to lesser lauded local secrets.

The awards are broken down into 15 categories: Burger, Cheese, Cooked Breakfast, Curry, Dim Sum, Fish & Chips, Pie, Pasta, Pudding, Roast Beef, Sausage & Mash, Soup, Steak & Chips, Sushi and Tapas. The awards have been judged by Restaurant Magazine in partnership with the Craft Guild of Chefs who together have examined over 500 entries and visited all of the restaurants 45-strong shortlist.

Although the categories are based on the dishes that are the staples of eating out in the UK today, many of the winning dishes are about creativity and innovation. The Cinnamon Club’s (Best Curry) Roast Saddle of Red Deer with Pickling Spices certainly outshines the usual curry staples whilst the Courgette Flowers dipped in Beetroot Tempura & stuffed with Buffala Mozzarella & Ortiz Anchovies from newcomer L restaurant (Best Tapas) shows a vivid imagination.

With winning dishes from Dartmoor to the Scottish Highlands, the awards help showcase the ample and often less recognised cooking talent that’s operating outside London.

“The UK Best Dishes Awards are about what’s on the plate and nothing but the plate,” explains Joe Warwick, Restaurant Magazine’s Editor. “Restaurants’ reputations or lack thereof were never taken into consideration, with the shortlist of finalists drawn from dish descriptions, ingredients used and recipes - with all references to restaurants’ names and locations removed. This meant that when it came to the dishes entered, the humble country pub was put on an equal footing with flash London operations. Think of the awards as a culinary FA Cup, where the little guys can take on the big guys and triumph.”



For further details, images or to interview any of the winners or Restaurant Magazine’s Editor Joe Warwick, please contact:
Sarah Canet or Odette Lester, Spoon PR
Telephone: 020 7610 9821
Mobile: 07780 911630
Email: sarah@spoon-pr.com odette@spoon-pr.com Winners list attached.











Editors’ notes:
Categories, winners & finalists

Burger
Winner
The Mole Inn, Oxford
Runners Up
The Fence Gate Inn, Burnley, Lancashire
Pick more Daisies, London

Cheese
Winner
The Lecture Room at Sketch, London
Runners Up
The Fence Gate Inn, Burnley, Lancashire
The Newbridge, Tredunnock, Monmouthshire

Cooked Breakfast
Winner
The Dartmoor Inn, Okehampton, Devonshire
Runners Up
Fifteen, Watergate Bay, Cornwall
The Gun, London

Curry
Winner
The Cinnamon Club, London
Runners up
Kasturi, London
Champor Champor, London

Dim Sum
Winner
Yauatcha, London
Runners Up
Chino Latino, Nottingham
Kai Mayfair, London

Fish & Chips

Winner
The Longridge, Lancashire
Runners Up
60 Hope Street, Liverpool
Rushmore’s Restaurant Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Pasta
Winner
James Street South, Belfast
Runners Up
The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire
The Moathouse Hotel & Restaurant, Staffordshire

Pie
Winner
The Greyhound, London
Runners Up
Fence Gate Inn, Burnley, Lancashire
The Coastguard, Kent

Pudding
Winner
The Royalist Hotel, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire
Runners Up
The Captain’s Table, Woodbridge, Suffolk
The Naked Turtle, Richmond, Surrey

Roast Beef
Winner
The Marquess Tavern, London
Runners up
Gordons Restaurant, Inverkeilor, Scotland
Mews of Mayfair, London

Sausage & Mash
Winner
Boisdale of Belgravia
Runners up
Selkirk Arms Hotel, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
The Quality Chop House, London

Soup
Winner
Loch Torridon Country House Hotel, Wester Ross, Scotland
Runners up
Stanneylands Hotel, Wilmslow, Cheshire
Babylon at the Roof Gardens, London

Steak and Chips
Winner
Wallett’s Court Country House Hotel, Kent
Runners up
Hoste Arms, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
J. Bakers Bistro Moderne, York

Sushi
Winner
Saki Bar & Food Emporium, London
Runners up
Cocoon, London
Geisha , Nottingham

Tapas
Winner
L Restaurant, London
Runners up
Kwizeen Restaurant, Blackpool, Lancashire
Salt Yard , London