Winners Revealed...

270 finalists, sponsors and guests attended the eighth annual ‘Oscars’ of the local food and drink industry, which took place at Cheltenham Racecourse on Monday 5^th July. 

Congratulations to all our winners and finalists....

 

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR sponsored by Business Link

Winner: Field Bar Wine, Stroud

Runners-up: Woefuldane Organic Dairy in Minchinhampton; Burlington Berties in Tewkesbury

 

 

BUTCHER OF THE YEAR sponsored by Hartpury College

Winner: Andrew Creese Butchers, Newent

Runners-up: Browns Butchers in Cheltenham; VW Lane Butchers in Cheltenham

 

  

LOCAL TEA SHOP OF THE YEAR sponsored by Cotteswold Dairy

Winner: The Kitchen, Minchinhampton

Runners-up: Café Mosaic in Cirencester; Badgers Hall in Chipping Campden

 

 

BEST INDEPENDENT RETAILER sponsored by Cotswold Fayre

Winner: Oeno Wine Merchants, Cirencester

Runners-up: Coco Sweet Shop in Nailsworth; Daylesford Organic near Kingham

 

  

BEST FARM SHOP sponsored by BBC Radio Gloucestershire

Winner: Over Farm, Gloucester

Runners-up: Cotswold Food Store in Longborough; Chesterton Farm Shop in Cirencester

 

  

BEST FARMERS’ MARKET sponsored by www.cotswold.greatbritishlife.co.uk

Winner: Stroud Farmers’ Market

Runners-up: Cirencester Farmers’ Market; Cheltenham Farmers’ Market

 

 

FOOD PRODUCT OF THE YEAR sponsored by Bibury Court Hotel

Winner: Netherend Dairy Butter, Netherend Farm Dairy, Lydney

Runners-up: Cirencester Cupcakes in Cirencester; Brinkworth Blue from Brinkworth Dairy

 

 

DRINKS PRODUCT OF THE YEAR sponsored by Lapstone

Winner: Cotswold Wheat Beer, Cotswold Brewing Company

Runners up: Bensons Apple Juice from Bensons; Honey Bear Beer from the Cotswold Spring Brewery

 

 

BEST SCHOOL FOOD AWARD sponsored by Royal Agricultural College Food Centre.

Winner: Chipping Campden School

Runners-up: Marling School in Stroud; Ribston Hall High School in Gloucester

 

 

BEST NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB sponsored by Cotswold Life

Winner: The Beehive, Cheltenham

Runners-up: The Old Spot in Dursley; The Churchill Arms in Paxford

 

 

BEST PUB RESTAURANT sponsored by Shooting Food

Winner: The Kingham Plough, Kingham

Runners-up: The Green Dragon in Cockleford; The Wheatsheaf in Northleach

 

 

CHEF OF THE YEAR sponsored by Target Catering

Winner: Lee Scott, Cotswolds 88 Hotel, Painswick

Runners-up: David Everitt-Matthais of Le Champignon Sauvage in Cheltenham; Michael Caines of The Bath Priory in Bath

 

 

RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR sponsored by Peter Hickman Hairdressers

Winner: Lumière, Cheltenham

Runners-up: Curry Corner in Cheltenham; Michael’s Mediterranean Restaurant in Chipping Campden

 

 

HOTEL RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR sponsored by Cotswold Catering Services

Winner: Lords of the Manor, Upper Slaughter

Runners-up: Calcot Manor near Tetbury; Bibury Court in Bibury

 

 

2010 COTSWOLD FOOD HERO sponsored by Leapfrog PR

Winner: Guy Warner, Warner’s Budgens

Runners-up: Jess Vaughan of Jess’s Ladies Organic Milk; Tom Herbert of Hobbs House Bakery