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Two Bristol runners-up in Observer Food Monthly Awards 2018
Two Wapping Wharf businesses have been named as runners-up in this year’s Observer Food Monthly Awards.
Box-E is named as a runner-up in the Best Restaurant category; with Better Food – which has shops in St Werburgh’s and Clifton as well as Wapping Wharf – named as a Best Independent Retailer runner-up.
The UK’s best chefs, restaurants, cookbooks and more were celebrated at the awards, with winners voted for by the public and a panel of judges.
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Among the winners were chef and cookery writer Simon Hopkinson, who collected the award for Lifetime Achievement, Hang Fire Southern Kitchen in Barry who were voted Best Restaurant, and Ryan Riley of Life Kitchen, who took Best Ethical Food Project for his cookery classes for cancer patients.
Box-E is named as a runner-up in the Best Restaurant category in this year’s Observer Food Monthly Awards
Judges described Box-E as “just two former shipping containers and a sensational stove, but the owners’ can-do attitude and passion led Jay Rayner to call this 14-seat restaurant ‘beguiling'”.
Better Food is a Best Independent Retailer runner-up
Better Food was described as a “mini organic-grocery and cafe chain that has spread to three branches across Bristol since first opening in 2002. Lots of produce from the community farm just outside the city started by the shop 10 years ago.”
The two runners-up gongs for Bristol businesses are a much smaller return than usual for the city, which had nine runners-up in both 2015 and 2016, and five runners-up in 2017.
2017 runners-up:
Best Restaurant: Romy’s Kitchen, Thornbury
Best Cheap Eats: Pigsty
Best Independent Retailer: Papadeli
Best Place to Drink: Milk Thistle, Small Bar
2016 runners-up
Best Cheap Eats: The Faraway Tree, Three Brothers Burgers, Flour & Ash
Best Markets: St Nick’s
Best Places to Drink: Small Bar
Best Ethical Restaurants: The Ethicurean, Poco
Best Independent Retailers: Papadeli
Best Restaurants: Lido
2015 runners-up
Best Restaurants: Romy’s Kitchen, Bell’s Diner, Birch
Best Places to Drink: Hausbar
Best Markets: St Nick’s
Best Ethical: The Ethicurean, Romy’s Kitchen, Poco
Best Cheap Eats: Folk House Cafe, Papadeli, The Kitchen, Thali Cafe
Best Sunday Lunch: The Grace , The Rummer
Best Independent Retailers: Papadeli, The Spicery, Better Food Company
Read more: Five Bristol winners in Observer Food Monthly Awards 2017
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