Press Release
10th October 2019
Food Made Good Awards 2019 shortlist showcases businesses and individuals
rising to the tastiest challenge on the planet
Chefs inspiring positive change beyond the pass and across the wider food system, foodservice operators introducing an array of creative initiatives to meet the urgent need to serve more plant-based dishes and reduce meat consumption, and suppliers designing new products to help hospitality fight climate change, all feature among the 45 finalists on the shortlist for the Food Made Good Awards 2019, published today.
With the climate crisis accelerating and diner demand for an eating out experience with a minimal impact, the Food Made Good Awards 2019 are a showcase for those businesses making it possible for consumers to use the power of their appetites wisely.
Raymond Blanc, OBE, President of the SRA, said “The whole world and kitchens across the UK are waking up to the climate threat. The Food Made Good Awards are the perfect platform for shining a light on those kitchens and the teams working in them, that are using incredible creativity and taking risks to help their customers make food choices that are good for them and the planet. Every chef and restaurateur will take inspiration from this shortlist of dozens of inspiring ideas and initiatives successfully implemented by their industry colleagues.”
Of the 45 businesses shortlisted for the Food Made Good Awards 2019, 32 are independent restaurants, pubs or cafés, while six of the UK’s best-known restaurant, café and pub brands also demonstrate that size is no barrier to sustainability.
Chantelle Nicholson, of London’s Tredwells, Deri Reed of the Warren in Carmarthen and Conor Spacey of FoodSpace, the Dublin-based caterer all make it onto the shortlist for the new Chef of the Year award, in recognition of their success in extending their influence beyond the four walls of the kitchen, whether by pursuing a relentless championing of local producers or successfully encouraging diners, including committed carnivores to eat more veg and fewer animal products.
Young’s Pubs has been shortlisted for the Celebrate Local and Seasonal and the Source Fish Responsibly categories. The latter also includes YO!, which features among the final three for the Treat Staff Fairly and Feed People Well categories too. The shortlist for the Support Global Farmers award includes Nando’s UK & Ireland and The Restaurant Group, which is also in the running for the Value Natural Resources award. JD Wetherspoon is in the final three in two categories; Treat Staff Fairly and Feed People Well. Costa Coffee is among the finalists for the Support the Community award.
There are six pub businesses (The Buxton, The Roebuck, The Wheatsheaf Chilton Foliat, Young’s, JD Wetherspoon, and National Trust Sticklebarn) and three caterers, FoodSpace, CH&CO and Vacherin) on the shortlist, as well as two UK universities; Lakeside Restaurant and Coffee Shop, University of Surrey, University of Edinburgh,
In another new category for 2019, Belu, Oatly and Too Good To Go, make up the shortlist for Product of the Year. Between them they are helping operators reduce single-use, make dairy alternatives cool and save a million meals from the bin.
The Food Made Good Awards recognise restaurants and foodservice businesses whose accomplishments in the last year have driven progress in the industry and demonstrated that all food can be made delicious, ethical and sustainable. The shortlist is a treasure trove of concepts proven to make a positive difference.
The winners of the 20 Food Made Good Awards will be revealed at a special ceremony hosted by Melissa Hemsley, at Troxy, London, on 5th November. Melissa said: “I am excited about presenting the Food Made Good Awards and I can’t wait to discover, and of course reveal, all of the incredible winners when it comes to the big night on 5th November.”
Ten of the categories align with the ten key themes of the SRA’s Food Made Good sustainability framework. Operators fulfilling all ten are the very definition of a good restaurant or foodservice business.
A full list of categories and the shortlisted restaurants are available below and here.
In addition to the ten themed awards, there are a further ten categories including the People’s Favourite Restaurant. Readers of delicious. magazine have been voting for the five restaurants on the shortlist: café-ODE, Fodder, Poco Tapas Bar, SpiceBox and Yeo Valley Canteen.
Raymond Blanc’s Sustainability Hero 2019, will also be revealed at the ceremony, following in the footsteps of the likes of Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tim Lang.
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The Food Made Good Awards are run by the Sustainable Restaurant Association to celebrate everything exciting about British hospitality businesses, chefs and suppliers doing the extraordinary to make food good – delicious, ethical, sustainable. Those businesses that have made it on to the shortlist have demonstrated impact, influence and integrity.
The judging panel for the awards consisted of a representative of each category sponsor, industry and issue specific experts as well as one of the SRA’s board of directors.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is a not for profit membership organisation helping restaurants become more sustainable and diners make more sustainable choices when dining out. Our Food Made Good programme helps foodservice to focus on the issues affecting the food system and to work towards a shared goal of serving meals that don’t just taste good but do good too.
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Tickets for the Food Made Good Awards are available here.
FOOD MADE GOOD AWARDS 2019 shortlist in full:
Celebrate Local and Seasonal – for the business making the very most of the larder on its doorstep
EN_Food, Hertfordshire
Poco Tapas Bar, Bristol
Young’s Pubs, London and South
Sponsored by: Fooditude
Serve More Veg and Better Meat – rewarding the most innovative ways of flipping the menu
Lucky Beach Café, Brighton
Poco Tapas Bar, Bristol
The Wheatsheaf Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire
Sponsored by: Lightspeed
Source Fish Responsibly – for the business doing most to help ensure plenty more fish in the sea
Lussmanns Sustainable Fish & Grill, Hertfordshire
YO!
Young’s Pubs, London and South
Sponsored by: Open Blue
Support Global Farmers – for the business going above and beyond in ethical sourcing
Kemptown Project, Brighton
Nando’s UK & Ireland
The Restaurant Group
Sponsored by: Farm Africa
NEW Food Made Good Chef of the Year – for the chef who is most effective at leading as well feeding
Chantelle Nicholson, Tredwells, London
Deri Reed, The Warren, Carmarthen
Conor Spacey, FoodSpace, Dublin
Sponsored by: InnuScience
One Planet Plate – for the dish that’s had the biggest impact on the planet in 2019
The Good Egg, London
Purezza, London and Brighton
The Roebuck, London
Treat Staff Fairly – for the business doing most to value staff through pay & beyond the paycheque
THE PIG at Brockenhurst, Hampshire
JD Wetherspoon
YO!
Sponsored by: TiPJAR
Support the Community – for the business making food do good as well as taste good in its area
Costa Coffee
Overends Kitchen Restaurant, Dublin
Where the Light Gets In, Stockport
Open Right – Celebrating a site opened in last 12 months with sustainability built in
The Buxton, London
Ink Café, Dublin
Sponsored by: Shaftesbury
Feed People Well: for the business doing the most to help adults and kids make good food choices
CH&CO
JD Wetherspoon
YO!
Product of the Year – for a single product that’s had a measurable positive impact in foodservice
Belu
Oatly
Too Good To Go
Supplier of the Year: for a business helping its foodservice customers tackle the big sustainability issues
OLIO
Paper Round
Rubies in the Rubble
Value Natural Resources – for the business innovating to better preserve all resources, including energy and water
The Buxton, London
The Restaurant Group
National Trust Sticklebarn, Cumbria
Sponsored by: Good Energy
Reduce Reuse Recycle – for the most impactful way of keeping as much as possible out of landfill
BuJo, Dublin
University of Edinburgh
The City Farm Café, Bristol
Waste No Food – rewarding the very best ways of ensuring food stays on the plate and out of the bin
Petersham Nurseries, London
Vacherin, London
The Wheatsheaf Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire
Sponsored by: Kingspan
Food Made Good Champion – for the individual doing most to engage the industry on the key sustainability issues on the SRA’s online member community
Lauren Haffenden, Lakeside Restaurant and Coffee Shop, Surrey
Henry Unwin, Nando’s UK & Ireland
Andrea Zick, OXO Tower Restaurant, Bar & Brasserie, London
Sponsored by: Freedom Brewery
Good To Go – For the restaurant doing most to prove you don’t have to remove principles when taking away food
Buena Comida, Dudley
Chris’s Fish & Chips, Leicestershire
Happy Maki, Brighton
Sponsored by Just Eat
People’s Favourite Restaurant – Publicly-voted award run in partnership with delicious. magazine
Café-ODE, Devon
Fodder, Harrogate
Poco Tapas Bar, Bristol
SpiceBox, London
Yeo Valley Canteen, North Somerset
Food Made Good Business of the Year: The best in the business, excelling across the sustainable board – achieving the highest overall score in the Food Made Good Sustainability Rating
Top 20 to be announced on Tuesday 22nd October
Raymond Blanc Sustainability Hero – an outstanding individual inspiring positive change
To be announced at the ceremony on 5th November
