Food Lifestyle Awards 2024

The Food Lifestyle Awards are hotting up for 2024 with voting now closed and the finalists revealed. The winners will be revealed on September 30 at Nancarrow Farm near Truro

For over a decade our awards have celebrated the South West’s best chefs, restaurants, dining pubs, foodie hotels, drinks products, farm shops and more. To mark our evolution into Food Lifestyle, this year we’ve established new categories in the lifestyle realm including exceptional spa experience, cool place to stay and outstanding retail experience, providing readers with even more opportunity to get behind their favourite indie businesses. Each year we receive tens of thousands of reader votes and previous winners include Jack Stein, The Beckford Bottle Shop, Crocadon, Emily Scott and Scarlet Hotel. Read on to find out who you made this year’s finalists.

Voting has now closed and the winners will be revealed at a celebratory supper and awards ceremony at Nancarrow Farm in Cornwall on September 30.

The Food Lifestyle Awards 2024 finalists are

Chef of the year

• Adam Handling, The Ugly Butterfly
• Cass Titcombe, Brassica Restaurant
• Connor Reed, River Cottage
• Elly Wentworth, The Angel of Dartmouth
• Paul Ainsworth, Paul Ainsworth at No6

Restaurant of the year

• Appleton’s Bar & Restaurant, Fowey
• Bristol Lido, Bristol
• Restaurant Mine, Falmouth
• Root, Wells
• The Angel, Dartmouth

Pub of the year – sponsored by Thatchers

• Harbour Inn, Porthleven
• The Cotley Inn, Chard
• The Queen’s Arms, Corton Denham
• The Tartan Fox, Newquay
• The Tolcarne Inn, Newlyn

Hotel of the year – sponsored by Trevethan Distillery

• Bedruthan, Mawgan Porth
• Homewood, Bath
• The Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth
• The Old Bell Hotel, Malmesbury
• The Pig at Harlyn Bay, Padstow

Casual dining experience

• Darts Farm, Topsham
• FARA, Glastonbury
• Sacred Grounds, Exeter
• Situ, Penryn
• St Eia, St Ives

Exceptional spa experience

• Chewton Glen, New Forest
• Gaia Spa, Boringdon Hall, Plymouth
• Gara Rock, Salcombe
• Scarlet, Mawgan Porth
• The Headland, Newquay

Cool place to stay – sponsored by Bramley

• Atlanta Trevone, Padstow
• Durslade Farmhouse, Bruton
• Star & Garter, Falmouth
• The Collective at Woolsery, north Devon
• Wildcomfort, Dartmouth

Drink brand of the year

• Girls Who Grind
• Loveday Distilling
• Somerset Cider Brandy
• Trevethan Distillery
• Yallah Coffee

Food brand of the year

• Black Bee Honey
• Cornish Sea Salt
• Cut to the Smoke
• Granny Gothards
• St. Ewe

Outstanding retail experience

• Botanica Studio, Bath
• Durslade Farm Shop, Bruton
• Nkuku, Harbertonford
• Rise Market & Bakery, Bridport
• Sunshine & Snow, Bideford

Food Lifestyle Awards 2024 are supported by Bramley, Darts Farm, Ellis Wines, South West 660, Thatchers and Trevethan Distillery

Find out last year’s winners and what went down at the ceremony.

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Food Lifestyle is a beautiful printed magazine that reveals the most special places to eat, stay, visit and shop each season – from Cornwall to the Cotswolds. The quarterly publication features the coolest places to visit and the most delicious things to do in the South West of England each season.

Content includes insider’s guides to must-visit cities, towns and coast and countryside areas, curated weekends away, the best restaurants to eat at, special places to stay, tastemakers’ recommendations, interviews and quality retail and lifestyle experiences.

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