Food Lifestyle Awards 2025

Roll up, roll up! Voting for the Food Lifestyle Awards 2025 opens on June 2 and is an exciting opportunity to get behind the South West chefs, hotels, stores, cafes and lifestyle experiences you really rate

For over a decade, we’ve championed the region’s best independent food and drink businesses through our Food Lifestyle Awards. This year we’re once again asking readers of Food Lifestyle magazine to behind the indie businesses they want to see win the region’s most sought-after accolades.

The awards cover businesses in Cornwall to the Cotswolds, Bristol, Bath, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, and each year we receive tens of thousands of votes from our readers. They cast their votes for their favourite dining pubs, foodie hotels, products and farm shops in this creative and gastronomically exciting region.

Previous winners include Adam Handling, Harriet Mansell, The Bull Inn, The Angel of Dartmouth, Scarlet Hotel, Gidleigh Park, Salcombe Gin, The Beckford Bottle Shop, Porthminster Beach Cafe, Yallah Coffee, St Ewe and Ashburton Cookery School. Discover who took home awards last year.

Voting is quick and easy: on June 2 we’ll release the form where everyone can submit their favourites in the categories listed below. When voting closes on June 30, we’ll count up the votes from the first round and reveal a shortlist for each category on July 2. You can then vote again from the shortlist until July 30. On August 4, four finalists in each category will be revealed and invited to the swanky awards ceremony which takes place Harbour House in Bristol on September 15.

The categories in the Food Lifestyle Awards 2025 are:

• Chef of the year
• Restaurant of the year
• Pub of the year
• Hotel of the year
• Casual dining experience
• Exceptional spa experience
• Cool place to stay
• Drink brand of the year
• Food brand of the year
• Outstanding retail experience

Follow us on Instagram for the latest updates and bookmark this page ready to cast votes on June 2 when voting opens.