2023 Food and Travel Reader Awards - The Winners

The 2023 Food and Travel Reader Awards were held at the Royal Automobile Club on Monday 20 November.

This year’s event saw the great and the good from the worlds of food, drink and travel attend a gala dinner with dishes from John Williams MBE, Dean Banks and Shaun Hill.

Restaurants, chefs, hotels, destinations, tour operators, cruise companies and airlines were among those honoured – as well as two new awards for 2023, the Local Hero and the Sustainability Awards.

The winners’ edition of the magazine is on sale on 08 December, so ensure you get your copy by subscribing at foodandtravel.com/subscribe

Photography by Tim Anger.

2023 FOOD AND TRAVEL READER AWARDS – THE WINNERS

LONDON RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Apricity; Brutto; Caravel; Fallow; Kol; Manteca; Mountain; The Pelican; Rochelle Canteen; Smoking Goat

WINNER: Mountain

OUTSIDE LONDON RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Eleanore; The Farm Table; Fish Shop; Henrock; Higher Ground; Lake Road Kitchen; Meadowsweet; Outlaw’s New Road; Roots; Wild Shropshire; Wilsons

WINNER: Outlaw’s New Road

RESTAURANT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: 64 Goodge Street; Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal; Bouchon Racine; Boys Halls; Edit; Humo; Mountain; Pavyllon; The Pelican; Socca; St. John Marylebone; Story Cellar; The Three Horseshoes

WINNER: Bouchon Racine

TIMELESS CLASSIC OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill; Chez Bruce; Le Gavroche; Quo Vadis; The Ritz Restaurant; Rochelle Canteen; Rules; Wiltons (all London); The Seahorse (Dartmouth); The Sportsman (Whitstable)

WINNER: Le Gavroche

CHEF OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Michael Caines; Jack Croft and Will Murray; Lisa Goodwin-Allen; Henry Harris; Margot Henderson; Florence Knight; Santiago Lastra; Jeremy Lee; Nathan Outlaw; Tomos Parry; Anna Tobias

WINNER: Lisa Goodwin-Allen

BAR OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: A Bar with Shapes for a Name; Artesian; Beaufort Bar at The Savoy; Connaught Bar; Couch Stirchley; Eve Bar; Lab 22; Skua; Soma; Tabula Rasa

WINNER: Skua

CITY HOTEL OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Beaverbrook Town House; Claridge’s; The Gainsborough Bath Spa; Gleneagles Townhouse; The Grand; Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel; Leven; Nomad London; Old Parsonage; Rosewood London

WINNER: Gleneagles Townhouse

RURAL HOTEL OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Atlantic Hotel; Bovey Castle; Buckland Manor; Carbis Bay Hotel; Chewton Glen;The Double Red Duke; Grantley Hall; Gravetye Manor; Heckfield Place; The Machrie

WINNER: Chewton Glen

GOURMET BOLTHOLE OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: The Black Swan; Bull & Last; Killiecrankie House; The Loch & The Tyne; Old Downton Lodge; Outlaw’s Guesthouse; Padstow Townhouse; The Queen’s Arms; Restaurant Sat Bains; Ynyshir

WINNER: Killiecrankie House

BED AND BREAKFAST OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Glangwili Mansion; Hill House; The Laindons Guest House; Low Mill Guest House; Number 38 Clifton; The Salutation Inn; Six Brunton Place Guest House; Trevose Harbour House

WINNER: Six Brunton Place Guest House

INTERNATIONAL HOTEL OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne; Crillon Le Brave Hotel & Spa; Four Seasons Hotel Madrid; Hotel Aristide; Hotel Arts Barcelona; La Mamounia; The Singular Patagonia; The Stay Warehouse; Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi; Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort

WINNER: La Mamounia

LOCAL HERO

THE SHORTLIST: Ghillie Basan, food and travel writer; Geoff Dann, foraging teacher; Darts Farm; Greenstraight Scallops; Lucy Hine, brewery and food festival co-founder; Hodmedod’s, sustainable pulses and grains supplier; Calixta Killander, organic producer; Aidan Monks, organic sourdough baker; Pick’s Organic Farm; Sitopia Farm

WINNER: Darts Farm

BOOK OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Ikoyi (Jeremy Chan); Cooking (Jeremy Lee); Hoppers (Karan Gokani); Ottolenghi Test Kitchen (Noor Murad and Yotam Ottolenghi); Rambutan (Cynthia Shanmugalingham); Salamati (Hamed Allahyari); Supper (Flora Shedden); Time & Tide (Emily Scott)

WINNER: Cooking by Jeremy Lee

TOUR OPERATOR OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Barrhead Travel; CV Villas; Olympic Holidays; Red Savannah; Sandals; Sunvil; Trailfinders; Tuscany Now & More; Villa Plus

WINNER: Tuscany Now & More

RIVER CRUISE LINE OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Avalon Waterways; Emerald Cruises; Riverside Luxury Cruises; Riviera Travel; Scenic

WINNER: Riviera Travel

OCEAN CRUISE LINE OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Celebrity Cruises; Cunard; Explora Journeys; Oceania Cruises; Regent Seven Seas Cruises; Saga; Silversea

WINNER: Regent Seven Seas Cruises

BOUTIQUE/ADVENTURE CRUISE LINE OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Atlas Ocean Voyages; Hebridean Island Cruises; Noble Caledonia; Ponant; Scenic; Seabourn; Silversea; Swan Hellenic

WINNER: Scenic

AIRLINE OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: ANA; British Airways; Emirates; JAL; Qatar Airways; Singapore Airlines; Turkish Airlines; Wizz Air

WINNER: Emirates

COOKERY SCHOOL OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Bettys Cookery School; Eckington Manor Cookery School; Edinburgh New Town Cookery School; The Kitchen at Chewton Glen; Le Cordon Bleu; Leiths School of Food and Wine; Northcote Cookery School; Philleigh Way Cookery School; The School of Artisan Food

WINNER: Eckington Manor Cookery School

LONG-HAUL DESTINATION OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Argentina; Caribbean; Japan; Malaysia; Maldives; Mauritius; Mexico; Namibia; South Africa; USA

WINNER: Mexico

SHORT-HAUL DESTINATION OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Albania; Croatia; France; Greece; Iceland; Italy; Malta; Portugal; Spain; Türkiye

WINNER: Italy

CITY OF THE YEAR

THE SHORTLIST: Athens; Berlin; Copenhagen; Dublin; Dubrovnik; Geneva; Istanbul; New York; Porto; Seville

WINNER: Seville

BREAKTHROUGH CHEF OF THE YEAR

An industry-voted award

WINNER: Corrin Harrison

SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

An industry-voted award

WINNER: Intrepid Travel