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Best Family Friendly Restaurant
Where your kids are made as welcome as the bill payer, and the whole family are catered for brilliantly.
- A genuine welcome for the smaller members of the family on arrival
- Great seating for kids and specialist children’s menus
- Flexibility of food offering to cater for little one’s tastes
- Goody bags, coloured pens, fun décor, entertainment for children, play/soft areas, this restaurant make an effort parents and kids appreciate.
Best Service
Sponsored by Lucie White & Co
Restaurants, pubs and hotels that show exceptional levels of service when dining
- Meeting and greeting, and exemplary service throughout the meal
- Friendly without being pushy, welcoming without being obsequious
- Genuine desire to see you enjoy your meal – without interrupting you too often to check
- Knowledgeable staff who are responsive to questions
- Deal with any issues with excellence
Best Coffee/Tea House
Your favourite neighbourhood establishment for a cuppa
- Serves a great range of gourmet coffee and teas
- Provide a knowledgeable and friendly service
- Has personality, great ambience and decor.
- Are ideal for a break whilst shopping – with space for mums, babies and buggies a bonus
- Equally great for a quick business meet or quite working space – and wifi that works!
Best Food/Drink retailer
Sponsored by Gardenia of London
Your favourite retailer, whether a specialist or selling a wide variety of produce.
- Can include delis, butchers, patisseries, cheese shops, fishmongers, grocers, online services, farmers markets, wine specialists, off-licences etc…
- Produce you go back for time and again.
- A retailer that creates your loyalty and you recommend wholeheartedly.
Best Pub
Sponsored by Wimbledon Brewery
A pub, tavern, or gastro pub that serves great food and an impressive, well-kept range of drinks:
- Serves an impressive range of beers, ciders, wines and spirits, well kept and at the right temperatures, with excellence and catering for all tastes.
- Serves great food, whether it be gourmet, traditional pub grub or something completely different.
- Have friendly and knowledgeable staff
- Have atmosphere, a personality and any outstanding features that you love
Best Newcomer
Any food establishment that has opened since 1 Jan 2017
- Already part of the fabric of the community
- Living up to their opening statement – and have sustained their claims when you re-visited
- Somewhere you’ve recommended to your friends and to visitors
- Delighted to have discovered
- Serving great food to enjoy on premises
Best Eating Experience: Epsom Town Centre
Sponsored by Epsom Playhouse
This category is open to any business trading in Epsom Town Centre.
From street food to restaurants, this is your favourite eating experience in town.
- Quality of food is excellent and consistent
- Includes street food, cafés, restaurants, take-away – anything goes.
- Service is friendly and attentive
- Great ambience adding to the overall experience
- A place you will return to and definitely recommend
Best Eating Experience: Wimbledon Town
Sponsored by Love Wimbledon
This category is open to any business trading in the Love Wimbledon BID District.
From Street food to restaurants, this is your favourite eating experience in town.
- Quality of food is excellent and consistent
- Includes street food, cafés, restaurants, take-away – anything goes.
- Service is friendly and attentive
- Great ambience adding to the overall experience
- A place you will return to and definitely recommend
Local Restaurant of the Year
Sponsored by Flight Centre UK
The very best and your go-to local restaurant
- Consistently fantastic, authentic, quality food
- Great service with a smile
- You are happy to go back again and again
- A local gem and added value to the local community
- A casual experience and probably two courses for under £25
Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year
Sponsored by Direct Colour
Food with real flair and a dining experience you’ll remember and talk about
- High End dining Destination restaurant – you’ll travel miles to get here.
- You’ll book here for a really special event – you’re not worried about your budget.
- You’ll expect, and receive, the Hautest of haute cuisine
- Beautiful, well-thought-out décor
- Faultless food, service and presentation
Most innovative Arts Project
A project within the arts sector that pushed boundaries, tried to be different from the norm and challenged convention. It might be a collaboration that has resulted in a great collective achievement, or a solo organisation that has delivered something that is truly original.
The Tony Kane Cultural Experience of the Year
Sponsored by Flight Centre UK
What is your favourite cultural experience in the region? From favourite festivals and one-day events to an exhibition, show or local attraction…. tell us who has given you the most memorable cultural experience this year.
Performing Arts Venue of the Year
Sponsored by The Hurlingham Club
Your favourite venue to enjoy performing arts. It will have a packed programme, attract the best performers, directors or writers, and cater well to the needs of the local community. You are delighted and proud to have this venue in your local area.
Family Attraction of the Year
The best cultural attraction to take children, it might be a theatre with a strong programme for kids, or a gallery or museum that caters brilliantly for younger visitors.
