Time Out shortlists best London restaurants and bars
Time Out London have announced their list of nominees for the 2008 Eating and Drinking Awards, which this year includes four new categories.
To reflect London’s ever-changing food and drink scene, Time Out have introduced Best Local Food Market, Best Tea Room and London’s Best Breakfast. Also joining the list of categories is the topical Best Sustainable Restaurant, which Time Out’s Food and Drink Editor is enthusiastic about.
“Having worked in catering myself, I was aware that the industry can be wasteful, and so have welcomed the increased effort put into reducing carbon footprint that many restaurants are now making,” he said. “I felt that an award for Best Sustainable Restaurant would reward those making the extra efforts that might otherwise go unnoticed”.
Sustainability patron Tom Aikens has slipped two of his establishments into categories for Best Sustainable Restaurant and also Best Breakfast this year. Fellow restaurateur Mark Hix (pictured, right) has also managed to get his Oyster and Chop House into the Best New Restaurant category alongside L’Autre Pied, which is also nominated for Best Design.
All establishments were visited anonymously by Time Out judges to create the shortlist, but the final winning decision rests in the hands of the general public, who can vote for their favourite nominee at www.timeout.com/eatingawards.
The winners will be announced in the 2009 Time Out Eating and Drinking Guide, released on September 9.
The full nominees list is as follows:
Best Bar
Amuse Bouche, 21-22 Poland Street, W1
Coburg Bar – The Connaught, Carlos Place, W1
Establishment, 45-47 Parsons Green Lane, SW6
The Loft, 67 Clapham High Street, SW4
Westbourne House, 65 Westbourne Grove, W2
Best Breakfast (new category)
The Botanist, 7 Sloane Square, SW1
Breads Etcetera, 127 Clapham High Street, SW4
The Providores & Tapa Room, 109 Marylebone High Street, W1
Rivington Bar & Grill, 28-30 Rivington Street, EC2
Tom’s Kitchen, 27 Cale Street, SW3
Best Cheap Eats
Baozi Inn, 25 Newport Court, WC2
Faanoos, 481 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14
Franco Manca, 4 Market Row, Brixton Market, SW9
Little Lamb, 72 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1
Teachi, 29-31 Parkway, NW1
Best Design
L’Autre Pied, 5-7 Blandford Street, W1
Le Caf? Anglais, 8 Porchester Gardens, W2
Cha Cha Moon, 5-21 Ganton Street, W1F
The Landau, The Langham, Portland Place, W1
Sake no hana, 23 St James’s Street, SW1
Best Gastropub
Carpenter’s Arms, 91 Black Lion Lane, W6
Clissold Arms, 115 Fortis Green, N2
Duke of Wellington, 94A Crawford Street, W1
Princess Victoria, 217 Uxbridge Road, W12
Warrington, 93 Warrington Crescent, W9
Best Local Food Market (new category)
Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market, entrance Hornsey Gate, off Muswell Hill, N22
Broadway Market, Broadway Market, E8
Pimlico Road Farmers’ Market, Orange Square, Pimlico Road & Ebury Street, SW1
Swiss Cottage Farmers’ Market, Eton Avenue, opposite Hampstead Theatre, NW3
Wimbledon Park Farmers’ Market, Wimbledon Park First School, Havana Road, SW19
Best Local Restaurant
Angelus, 4 Bathurst Street, W2
Le Caf? Anglais, 8 Porchester Gardens, W2
Le Cassoulet, 18 Selsdon Road, Croydon, CR2
Osteria Stecca, 1 Blenheim Terrace, NW8
Tom Ilic, 123 Queenstown Rd, SW8
Best Sustainable Restaurant (new category)
Clerkenwell Kitchen, The Clerkenwell Workshops, 27–31 Clerkenwell Close, EC1
Duke of Cambridge, 30 St Peter’s Street, N1
Saf, 152-154 Curtain Road, EC2
Tom’s Place, 1 Cale Street, SW3
Water House, 10 Orsman Road, N1
Best Tea Room (new category)
Chaiwalla, 4A-5A Perrins Court, NW3
Orange Pekoe, 3 White Hart Lane, SW13
Postcard Teas, 9 Dering Street, W1
Tea Palace, 175 Westbourne Grove, W11
Tea Smith, 8 Lamb Street, E1
Best New Restaurant
L’Autre Pied, 5-7 Blandford Street, W1
Dehesa, 25 Ganton Street, W1
Hereford Road, 3 Hereford Road, W2
Hibiscus, 29 Maddox Street, W1
Hix Oyster & Chop House, 35-37 Greenhill Rents, Cowcross Street, EC1
