The categories
Fourteen regional Restaurant of the Year awards, specialist awards for every kind of hospitality business, and honours for the people behind them.
Restaurant of the Year
One award for each region, plus the best restaurant from outside the UK and Ireland.
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No. 1 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Birmingham
Celebrating the best restaurant in Birmingham: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 2 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Warwickshire
Celebrating the best restaurant in Warwickshire, including Coventry, Warwick, Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 3 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Staffordshire
Celebrating the best restaurant in Staffordshire, from Stafford and Lichfield to Stoke-on-Trent and Cannock: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 4 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Shropshire
Celebrating the best restaurant in Shropshire, including Shrewsbury, Telford and the county’s market towns: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 5 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year East Midlands
Celebrating the best restaurant in the East Midlands, including Nottingham, Derby and Leicester: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 6 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Black Country
Celebrating the best restaurant in the Black Country: Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 7 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year North East
Celebrating the best restaurant in the North East, from Newcastle and Sunderland to Durham and Teesside: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 8 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year North West
Celebrating the best restaurant in the North West, including Manchester, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cumbria: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 9 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year London
Celebrating the best restaurant in London: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 10 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year South East
Celebrating the best restaurant in the South East, including Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and the Thames Valley: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 11 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year South West
Celebrating the best restaurant in the South West, from Bristol and Gloucestershire to Devon and Cornwall: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 12 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Wales
Celebrating the best restaurant in Wales: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 13 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Scotland
Celebrating the best restaurant in Scotland: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 14 Voting open
Restaurant of the Year Ireland
Celebrating the best restaurant in Ireland and Northern Ireland: outstanding food, warm and attentive service and an experience guests want to come back for. Every style of cuisine is welcome, from family-run favourites to the region's most ambitious kitchens.
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No. 15
Restaurant of the Year International
Celebrating an outstanding restaurant outside the UK and Ireland that brings the same standards of food, service and hospitality to its guests.
Venues and businesses
For every kind of hospitality business, from fine dining to takeaways and banqueting halls.
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No. 16
Pure Vegetarian Restaurant of the Year
For the best fully vegetarian or vegan restaurant: cooking that puts plants at the centre and proves meat-free dining can be the highlight of anyone’s week.
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No. 17
Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year
Recognising a restaurant at the top of its game: exceptional cooking, precise service and a dining room that makes an occasion of every visit.
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No. 18
Pub/Bar/Grill of the Year
For the pub, bar or grill that gets everything right, from the welcome at the door to the food on the plate and the atmosphere that keeps regulars coming back.
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No. 19
Lounge of the Year
Celebrating the best lounge for its hospitality, setting and service: a place people choose for an evening out with friends.
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No. 20
Franchise of the Year
For a franchise brand that keeps its quality and service consistent across every site, and supports its franchisees and teams to grow.
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No. 21
Takeaway/Fast Food of the Year
Recognising the takeaway or fast food business that delivers great food quickly and consistently, with the kind of service that builds a loyal local following.
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No. 22
Newcomer of the Year
For a restaurant or hospitality business that opened recently and has already made its mark. This is the one category where two years of trading is not required.
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No. 27
Caterers of the Year
For the catering business behind memorable weddings, events and celebrations: great food at scale, delivered with care.
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No. 28
Banqueting Hall of the Year
Recognising the banqueting hall or event venue that hosts outstanding occasions, with excellent food, service and facilities.
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No. 29
Hotel of the Year
For the hotel that delivers a stay to remember, from the welcome and the rooms to the restaurant and the team behind it all.
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No. 31
Latin American Restaurant of the Year
Celebrating the best Latin American restaurant in the UK, from Mexican and Peruvian to Brazilian and Argentinian cooking.
People
Honouring the entrepreneurs, rising stars and lifelong contributors behind UK hospitality.
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No. 23
Young Business Person of the Year
Honouring a young entrepreneur or rising star in hospitality whose drive and ideas are already making a difference to their business and their community.
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No. 24
Entrepreneur of the Year
For an entrepreneur who has built and grown a successful hospitality business in the UK, creating jobs and raising standards along the way.
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No. 25
Entrepreneur of the Year International
Recognising an entrepreneur whose hospitality business has grown beyond the UK, or who has built success internationally.
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No. 26
Business Woman of the Year
Celebrating a woman whose leadership, vision and hard work have shaped a successful hospitality business and inspired others in the industry.
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No. 30 Chosen by the judges
Lifetime Achievement
Chosen by the judges to honour a person whose career has made a lasting contribution to hospitality and the food industry.