| BEST RESTAURANT |
| Recognising the restaurant that serves the best food in Dorset, with particular emphasis on locally sourced ingredients. |
sponsored by Princecroft Willis
www.princecroftwillis.co.uk |
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| BEST DINING PUB |
| Recognising Dorset’s top foodie pub, with an emphasis on locally sourced ingredients. |
sponsored by Positive PR
www.positivepr.co.uk |
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| BEST LOCAL PUB |
| The pub at the hub of the community, with excellent real ales and good food. |
sponsored by Orchard Park
www.orchardpark.biz |
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| BEST DAIRY PRODUCER |
| An award for the best dairy products - ice cream, cheese, butter, milk, cream, yoghurt (all or any of these). |
sponsored by Hall & Woodhouse
www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk |
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| BEST DRINKS PRODUCER |
| Awarded for Dorset’s best beer, ale, cider, wine, fruit juice or mineral water. |
sponsored by Blackmore Limited
www.blackmore.co.uk |
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| BEST FARMERS' & PRODUCER MARKET' |
| Rewarding Dorset’s best farmers, producers or country market, specialising in local food. |
sponsored by Dorset Famous Five
www.dorsetfamousfive.co.uk |
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| BEST BAKER |
Recognising the best baker - including cakes, savouries, biscuits
and traditional and artisan breads. |
sponsored by Dorset Game Larder and GWR Hole and Sons www.gwrholeandsons.co.uk |
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| BEST ORGANIC BUSINESS |
A new award for a food or drink producer using organic,
environmentally friendly growing and animal husbandry techniques
or preparing food from organically grown or produced ingredients. |
sponsored by The Duchy of Cornwall, Poundbury
www.duchyofcornwall.org |
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| BEST CAFE/TEA ROOM |
An award for Dorset’s best café or tea room, serving real homemade fare or tea with scones and cakes
made from locally sourced ingredients where possible. |
sponsored by Hotel du Vin
www.hotelduvin.com |
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| BEST INDEPENDENT FOOD SHOP |
An award for one of the independent shops that keep our towns
and villages alive - it may be a greengrocer, butcher, baker,
fishmonger, grocer or general or village stores. |
sponsored by the Exchange, Sturminster Newton
www.stur-exchange.co.uk |
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| BEST MEAT PRODUCER |
An award for the best producer of locally reared meat supplied to
local butchers, famers markets, etc. |
sponsored by Blackmore Vale Dairy
www.bvdairy.co.uk |
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| BEST BUTCHER |
| An award for the butcher which sells a good selection of locally reared meat. |
sponsored by Thyme After Time
www.thymeaftertime.co.uk |
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| BEST FISHMONGER/SEAFOOD BUSINESS |
An award for a Dorset fishmonger or seafood business - including
a fish restaurant, café or fish & chip shop that serves local catches. |
sponsored by Fudges Bakery
www.fudges.co.uk |
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| GROW YOUR OWN |
| A new award for Dorset’s best community or home-grown scheme, allotment association, community orchard or
other community gardening project. |
sponsored by Castle Gardens Group www.thegardeneronline.co.uk |
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| BEST FARM SHOP |
An award for Dorset’s best farm shop selling the farm’s own
produce and other local ingredients to regulars and visitors. |
sponsored by Furleigh Estate
www.furleighestate.co.uk |
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| BEST DORSET FOOD FAIR OR FESTIVAL |
| A new award for the food fair or festival in
Dorset that focuses on food and drink produced in the county,
celebrates the skill of chefs and cooks working in Dorset and
encourages residents and visitors to discover more about local
food. |
sponsored by Battens Solicitors www.battens.co.uk |
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| HARMSWORTH AWARD |
An award for outstanding contribution to food in Dorset, recognising
an individual or company that has put the county on the map with
inspiration, energy, imagination and use of Dorset ingredients.
Last year’s winner, Fudges Bakery, is not eligible for the award this year. |
sponsored by Blackmore Vale Media
www.thisisdorset.co.uk/
blackmorevale |
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