THE SHORTLIST
RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Total votes in each category decide the overall Food and Travel Restaurant of the Year
London
A. Wong; Brat; Core by Clare Smyth; Frog by Adam Handling; Hélène Darroze at The Connaught; Holborn Dining Room; Ikoyi; Lyle’s; Noble Rot; Clove Club
Newcomer
(Open since September 2020) Akoko; José Pizarro at
RA; Native at Browns;
Sessions Arts Club (all London); The Double Red Duke (Bampton); Outlaw’s New Road (Port Isaac); Sargasso (Margate)
Outside London
Artichoke (Amersham); Box-E (Bristol); Carters of Moseley (Birmingham); Heaneys (Cardiff); L’Enclume (Grangeover-Sands); Midsummer House (Cambridge); The Seafood Restaurant (Padstow); Wedgwood (Edinburgh); Ynyshir (Eglwys Fach)
Timeless classic
Corrigan’s; Le Gavroche;
The Ritz; Veeraswamy;
The Wolseley (all London); Northcote (Langho); The Waterside Inn (Bray); Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons (Great
Milton); Ondine Oyster & Grill (Edinburgh); Restaurant Andrew Fairlie (Auchterarder)
CHEF OF THE YEAR
Sally Abé; Paul Ainsworth; Nieves Barragán Mohacho; Elliot Moss; Adam Handling;
Tom Kerridge; Merlin Labron-Johnson; Isaac McHale; Nathan Outlaw; José Pizarro
BAR OF THE YEAR
Connaught Bar; Eve Bar; The Kol Mezcaleria (all London); Below Stairs (Leeds); The
Milk Thistle (Bristol); Nauticus (Edinburgh); Public (Sheffield)
HOTEL OF THE YEAR
Votes decide the overall Food and Travel Hotel of the Year
City
The Balmoral (Edinburgh); Corinthia; Rosewood (both London); The Gainsborough Bath Spa (Bath); King Street Townhouse (Manchester); Old Parsonage Hotel (Oxford)
Rural
The Fife Arms (Braemar); Grantley Hall (Ripon); Heckfield Place (Hook); Lympstone Manor (Exmouth); Middleton Lodge (Richmond, Nth Yorks); The Newt in Somerset (Bruton); Watergate Bay Hotel (Newquay)
Gourmet bolthole
(10 rooms or fewer)
The Black Swan at
Oldstead (Oldstead); Jöro (Sheffield); Meadowsweet (Holt); Moor Hall (Aughton); Padstow Townhouse (Padstow); Restaurant Sat Bains (Nottingham)
Bed and breakfast
Cnapan Guest House (Newport); Horseshoe Cottage Farm (Cropston); Low Mill Guest House (Bainbridge); Trevose Harbour House (St Ives)
International
Aurelio Lech (Austria); Four Seasons Langkawi (Malaysia); Hotel Le Negresco (France); Joali (Maldives); The Stay Warehouse Hotel (Turkey)
SPECIALIST RETAILER OF THE YEAR
Boat2Door (Paignton), Darts Farm (Topsham); Daylesford Farm (Moreton-in-Marsh); HG Walter; Table @ Vallebona (both London); Valvona & Crolla (Edinburgh)
BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Hand & Flowers
Cookbook (Tom Kerridge); Ottolenghi Flavour (Yotam Ottolenghi); Petersham Nurseries (The Boglione Family); Ripe Figs (Yasmin Khan); Sicilia (Ben Tish), Simply (Sabrina Ghayour); Mother (Marsel van Oosten)
TOUR OPERATOR OF THE YEAR
Artisan Travel; Barrhead Travel; Caribtours; Citalia; Inntravel; Sandals; Sunvil; Trailfinders; Villa Plus
CRUISE LINE OF THE YEAR
Votes decide the overall Cruise Line of the Year
River
Avalon Waterways; Crystal River Cruises; Scenic: Uniworld River Cruises; Viking River Cruises; APT
Ocean
Celebrity Cruises; Crystal Cruises; Cunard; Oceania Cruises; Norwegian Cruise Line; Saga; Silversea
Boutique/adventure
Crystal Expedition Cruises; Hapag-Lloyd; Hebridean Island Cruises; Seabourn; Ponant; Variety Cruises
AIRLINE OF THE YEAR
British Airways; Emirates; Lufthansa; Qatar Airways; Singapore Airlines; Turkish Airlines; Virgin Atlantic
COOKERY SCHOOL OF THE YEAR
Ballymaloe (Shanagarry, Ireland); The Cooking School (Warminster); Edinburgh New Town; Edinburgh School of Food and Wine; Leiths School of Food and Wine (London); Philleigh Way (Truro); Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School; Waitrose Cookery School (various locations)
LONG-HAUL DESTINATION OF THE YEAR
Canada; Caribbean; Indonesia; South Africa; Thailand; USA; Vietnam SHORT-HAUL DESTINATION OF THE YEAR
Croatia; Greece; Italy; Malta; Portugal; Turkey Spain; Switzerland
CITY OF THE YEAR
Amsterdam; Berlin; Budapest; Copenhagen; Dublin; Lisbon; Tokyo; Venice; Vienna
BREAKTHROUGH CHEF OF THE YEAR
An industry-voted award for a UK-based chef