Here are the results of the Tatler Restaurant Awards 2007announced this week in association with Champagne Louis Roederer champagne (well you have to have a champagne for all those restaurateurs to drink while they’re gossiping about who really should have won, don’t you?).
MOST ORIGINAL RESTAURANT
Winner: Gilgamesh, Camden Stables Market, Chalk Farm, London NW1
Runners-up:
Fishes Restaurant & Rooms, Market Place, Burnham Market, Norfolk
Konstam, Acton Street, London WC1
Leon, Great Marlborough Street, London W1
Mews of Mayfair, Lancashire Court, New Bond Street, London W1
BEST FRONT OF HOUSE
Winner: Galvin at Windows (Fred Sirieix), London Hilton, Park Lane, London W1
Runners-up:
High Road Brasserie (Jon Laycock), Chiswick High Road, London W4
Hind’s Head (Marcus Barwell), High Street, Bray, Berkshire
St Alban (Mitch Everard), Lower Regent Street, London SW1
Via Condotti (Richard Martinez), Conduit Street, London W1
MOST CONSISTENTLY EXCELLENT RESTAURANT
Winner: Le Gavroche, Upper Brook Street, London W1
Runners-up:
Joe Allen, Exeter Street, London WC2
La Poule au Pot, Ebury Street, London SW1
Locanda Locatelli, Seymour Street, London W1
Waterside Inn, Ferry Road, Bray, Berkshire
THE ‘IT’ ROOM 2007 [whatever this is – JR]
Winner: L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, West Street, London WC2
Runners-up:
Cheyne Walk Brasserie, Cheyne Walk, London SW3
Daphne’s, Draycott Avenue, London SW3
Galvin at Windows, London Hilton, Park Lane, London W1
Porthminster Beach Cafe, Porthminster Beach, St lves, Cornwall
FABULOUS FOOD
Winner: The Greenhouse, Hay’s Mews, London W1
Runners-up:
Arbutus, Frith Street, London W1
Sumosan, Albemarle Street, London W1
Theo Randall at the InterContinental, Hamilton Place, London W1
Umu, Bruton Place, London W1
BEST WINE LIST
Winner: 1707, Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly, London W1
Runners-up:
Le Cercle, Wilbraham Place, London SW1
The Dining Room at the Goring, Beeston Place, London SW1
The Square, Bruton Street, London W1
Valvona & Crolla, Elm Row, Edinburgh
BEST NEWCOMER
Winner: Arbutus, Frith Street, London W1
Runners-up:
Cerise at The Forbury, The Forbury, Reading, Berkshire
Scott’s, Mount Street, London W1
St Alban, Lower Regent Street, London SW1
Tom’s Kitchen, Cale Street, London SW3
LOUIS ROEDERER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Winner: Jesus Adorno,Le Caprice, Arlington Street, London SW1
RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Winner: The Wolseley, Piccadilly, London W1
I took our youngest out to supper at the Caprice on the night these awards were announced to congratulate her on some very respectable exam results and bumped into Jesus Adorno who was tickled deepest pink to be honoured as an old hand at the same time as a new restaurant started by his old boss Jerremy King.