These days, the restaurants, bars, and hospitality stars in the running for this year’s Manchester Food and Drink Festival Awards can be discovered. The annual awards recognize the great places to consume and drink across Greater Manchester and honor the chefs and front-of-house groups working there. Prizes may also be provided to the region’s top food and drinks producers and shops, as well as the excellent activities on the culinary calendar.
New for this year is an artisan beverages producer class, recognizing the place’s booming brewing and distilling enterprise and an award for the pleasant vegan imparting, replacing the vegetarian class. Phil Jones, MFDF founding director, said: “There’s so much taking place all the time in Greater Manchester’s foods and drinks quarter that those award classes are continuously evolving, and it’s thrilling to upload new ones to reflect the range and development in the metropolis. “This year, the pleasant of the nominations is fantastic, and I wish anyone the pleasant of luck. We realize that those who work in the hospitality enterprise placed their heart and soul into their groups, and those awards are devoted to celebrating that dedication, expertise, and ultimately the success it brings to our vicinity.”
a Panel consisting of CityLife’s own food and drink writers, Emily Heward and Daisy Jackson. Voting is open now and closes at the hours of darkness on September 26. The public votes might be blended with ratings from a sequence of mystery buying visits over the coming months. Organizers also invite public nominations for three similar classes: Street Food Award of the Year, the Sustainability Award subsidized through The Sustainable Restaurant Association, and the Howard and Ruth Award for Outstanding Achievement. The winners could be announced at a Gorton Monastery gala dinner and awards ceremony on Monday, October 7. MFDF runs from September 26 to October 7, this 12 months, in its new home at Cathedral GardensThe complete 2019 shortlist Vegan Offering of the Year, backed with the aid of R Noone & Son
- Amma’s Canteen
- Bundobust
- Dishoom
- Evelyn’s Café Bar
- Food well
- Plant-Powered Sundays at GRUB
Last year’s winner (of Vegetarian Offering of the Year): Lily’s, Ashton-underneath-Lyne
Foodie Event or Project of the Year
- Auction Against Hunger
- GRUB
- Indy Man Beer Con
- Festa Italiana
- Stockport Foodie Friday
- SURPLUS! At Beer Nouveau
- Last year’s winner: Hatch
- Food and Drink Retailer of the Year
- Lunya, Manchester metropolis center
- HM Pasties
- Out of the Blue
- Taste IT
- Unicorn Grocery
- Wong Wong Bakery & Café
- Last 12 months’ winner: Pollen Bakery
- Artisan Drinks Producer of the Year
- Beatnikz Republic Brewing Co
- Diablesse Rum
- Manchester Gin
- Manchester Union Brewery Limited
- Steep Soda
- Track Brewing Co
- Affordable Eats Venue of the Year
- Bundobust
- Lily’s Indian Vegetarian Cuisine
- Rudy’s Pizza
- Stop Shop
- The Spärrows
- YES
- Last 12 months’ winners: Mi and Pho
- Coffee Shop of the Year, subsidized by way of Gorton Monastery
- Ezra and Gil
- Federal Café Bar
- Idle Hands
- Pollen Bakery
- Stop Shop
- Trove
- Last year’s winner: Pot Kettle Black
- Front of House Team of the Year, backed using Boutinot Wines
- Adam Reid at The French
- Dishoom
- Erst
- Hawksmoor
- Mana
- Taste
- Last year’s winner: 20 Stories
