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Restaurant and Excellence Awards

Restaurant Awards

Application forms for IWFS EAZ Restaurant Awards  can be found here.   These should be filled in and sent to the EAZ Awards Officer by post or Email.

Ruth Hurst             EAZ Awards Officer                                                   
Chestnut House, 3 Acre Wood, Lostock, Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL6 4HG.

Tel:     +44 (0) 7734 003 939

Email:   ruth_hurst@hotmail.co.uk 

There needs to be supporting signatures from 50% or more of the IWFS members attending the Restaurant Event. We are pleased if guests enjoy the Event and Restaurant but we are sorry, the signatories do have to be IWFS members. Maybe our guests would like to join and become members too.

If the signatures required are difficult to collect, then please collect them by email and forward them as detailed for the members Awards application.

Restaurant Awards 2023:

La Trompette - Date of event 1/5/23, Date presented 21/10/23
3-7 Devonshire Road
London W4 2EU 

The Fordwich Arms (now has a Michelin Star too) - Date of event 17/9/23, Date presented 2/11/23
King Street
Fordwich
Canterbury
Kent CT2 0DB
St James Branch

The Food Barn - Date of event 3/11/23, Date presented 18/11/23
The Noordhoek Farm Village
Noordhoek
Capetown 7979

Restaurant Awards 2024:

Restaurante Les Coles - Date of event Feb 24, Date presented 24/4/24
Carretera de la Canya
17800 OLOT
Girona
Spain

Castell Perelada - Date of event Feb 24, Date presented 24/4/24
17491 Peralada, 
Alt Empordà 
Girona
Spain

Restaurante Miramar - Date of event Feb 24, Date presented 24/4/24
Passeig Maritim
17490 Llanca
Girona
Spain

Restaurant Awards prior to 2023

 2018 Core by Clare Smyth, London - 30/5/18
 2018 Gauthier Solo Romilly St, London - 8/4/18
 2018 The Ninth Charlotte St, London -  4/6/18
 2018 Bonham's restaurant, New Bond St, London - 6/6/18
 2018 Manchester House, Manchester - Sept '18
 2018 The French, Midland Hotel, Manchester - 24/5/18
 2018 Northcote, Langho -  4/11/18
 2018 Olivers, Woodford - 14/07/18
 2018 Next Door, Frodsham Sept 2018
 2019 - TAST Manchester visited 21/11/19 presented 13/2/20
 2020 - Covid effect
 2021 - Covid effect 
 2022 - The Midland Hotel Manchester presented 18/5/22

If you have any queries or comments please contact the Awards Officer (details above) and she will be happy to help.

Excellence Awards

The new  Excellence Award is less honerous than the full restaurant award, and may be made at the discretion of Branch Committees,  provided that 50% of members agree that the venue offers grear wine, food and service.    It will give Branches the opportunity to reward a greater number of venues, including those that are not necessarily restaurants,  and thus to increase the visibility of the Society in their area.   Our aim is to raise awareness of IWFS in the hospitality industry and amongst its clientele, such that within a few years the brand and what it stands for become as widely recognised and respected as other comparable restaurant awards. To this end a centralised register of Excellence Venues will be held on this website, which should in time build up into a helpful resource for members and the public at large.

Here is a list of the Excellence Awards that have been awarded to date.

Date of Event Branch Venue

Date presented

01.09.22 London Sam's Riverside Restaurant

25.05.23

03.02.23 Devonshire Old Vienna

08.02.23

13.01.22 Devonshire Bianco's

20.01.22

17.02.22 Merseyside and Mid Cheshire Spirit Restaurant

01.04.22

28.06.22 Northern Team Bolton Catering College

16.11.22

06.07.22 Merseyside and Mid Cheshire The Church Green

04.12.22

14.10.21 Merseyside and Mid Cheshire Yellow Broom Restaurant

23.01.22

14.11.21 Merseyside and Mid Cheshire Buckley Catering College

18.01.22

30.11.21

Bath and Bristol

The Carpenters Arms

12.04.22

10.12.21 Merseyside and Mid Cheshire The Gr0svenor

07.12.22