Congratulations to the Cotswold Life Food & Drink Award finalists & winners 2019

The Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards evening is one of the biggest events in the Cotswold social calendar.  It consists of an evening celebrating the local food and drink industry, (whilst dining on an award worthy meal at Cheltenham Racecourse!)

We were absolutely delighted to attend this prestigious social event, now in its 17^th year, and truly honoured to be there supporting many of our hardworking Cheltenham based businesses.

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The recognition these awards offer makes a substantial impact on local businesses and help to shine a huge spotlight on our local food and drink industry.

Click here to view a full list of the very worthy CLFDA finalists and winners. 

To check out the Cheltenham based finalists and winners see below…

Best farm shop:

Winner (for the third year) - Court Farm Shop

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🎉🥂WE WON!🥂🎉 We are so so proud to announce that we have just won the Cotswold Life Food & Drink Award for Best Farm Shop for the third time! Our beautiful daughter is about to turn one and winning this fabulous award is a great addition to the celebrations 🥂 Thank you so much to our fabulous staff, customers, suppliers and judges! We love what we do and can’t do it without you! 😊 #clfda #cotswoldlife #wewon #thankyou #bestfarmshop #courtfarmshop

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Best local food & drink initiative:

Finalist - Deya Brewery (for their food truck & taproom weekends).

Finalist – Dunkertons Cider (for their Apple Day).

Sustainability initiative of the year:

Finalist – Sixways Wine Bar (for their plastic free bar)

Customer service award:

Winner – Waghornes Butchers (Prestbury, Cheltenham)

Restaurant of the year:

We were particularly proud that all three finalists in this category were Cheltenham based!

Winner – Lumiere Restaurant

Finalist – Prithvi

Finalist – The Coconut Tree

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We had a fantastic evening yesterday, thank you to @cotswoldlife and @peterhickman_hair for making us their Restaurant Of the Year! We are chuffed to bits and couldn’t do it without these superstars @lil_wise_one, @matthew_d93, @gracevs._ & @kianpuertaterron - Thank you for all of your hard work guys 😘😘 It was an amazing night for Cheltenham independent restaurants @prithvirestaurant & @thecoconuttreeuk were the other two finalists in the category - didn’t the judges have a great/tough job? @our.chelt @visitcheltenham #lumiererestaurant #lumierecheltenham #restaurant #finedining #3rossette #michelinrestaurants #cheltenham #cotswolds #instafood #foodstragram #foodforfoodies #love #food #awards #cotswoldlife

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Chef of the year:

Finalist - Jon Howe, Lumiere Restaurant

2019 Cotswold Food & Drink hero:

Winner – Julian Dunkerton from The Lucky Onion Group inc. Dunkertons Cider

Remember to pop by and support these local hardworking businesses to show your support of our Cheltenham finalists and winners!  To check out our social media posts during the evening use hashtag - #CLFDA