Find a great Award Winners in your region

These are the champions! The map above and list below show all Great Food Club Award Winners, past and present. It takes something special to win a GFC trophy. First, you need to receive enough public votes to get shortlisted in our annual awards; then you need to impress our judges enough to win your category outright. The GFC Awards have run annually since 2017.

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Award Winners & DINING – ALL TYPES & Fine dining & OTHER in Nottinghamshire

Alchemilla

Alchemilla in Nottingham serves superb contemporary British cuisine in a beautifully modernised 200-year-old former coaching house…
Award Winners & Cafe & DINING – ALL TYPES & OTHER in Nottinghamshire

All Mine Cakes (By The Lake)

All Mine Cakes By The Lake was our Cafe of the Year 2020/21. It is delightfully decorated and the view across the lake is dreamy…
Award Winners & Brewery & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES & Wine, beer, cider, spirits in Leicestershire & Northamptonshire

Braybrooke Beer Co.

Braybrooke Beer Co. near Market Harborough is a specialist lager brewer, named GFC’s Drink Producer of the Year 2020/21…
Award Winners & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES & Wine, beer, cider, spirits in Leicestershire

Brentingby Gin

Brentingby Gin is a premium gin, handcrafted in a specially designed copper still in the heart of the Leicestershire countryside…
Award Winners & Brewery & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES & Wine, beer, cider, spirits in Lincolnshire

Brewster’s Brewery

Brewster’s is a Grantham brewery founded by former British Brewer of the Year Sara Barton, who makes a fabulous range of innovative beers…
Award Winners & Cafe & Deli & DINING – ALL TYPES & OTHER in Northamptonshire

Bulwick Village Shop & Cafe

A brilliant village shop and cafe with its own exquisite range of quirky preserves, from hot ‘Peps’ to the joyously ‘Cuban Breakfast’…
Award Winners & Chefs for hire & OTHER in Nottinghamshire

Chef Craig Floate

Craig Floate is a private chef offering excellent classic cooking. He was named Great Food Club Private Chef of the Year 2020/21…
Award Winners & Chefs for hire & OTHER & Street food in Leicestershire

Chez Sebastien Artisan Pizza

Chez Sebastien Artisan Pizza of Melton Mowbray creates delicious artisan pizza, made using carefully sourced, free-range, local produce…
Award Winners & Deli & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

Christopher James Deli

Christopher James Deli in Leicester is a tiny yet charming and characterful traditional deli that was shortlisted in the Great Food Club Awards 2017/18…
Award Winners & Butcher & Cafe & Deli & DINING – ALL TYPES & Farm shop & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Derbyshire

Croots Farm Shop & Café

Croots Farm Shop & Café was a finalist in the GFC Awards 2020/21. You’ll find an extensive butchery, cheese counter and lots of local produce…
Award Winners & Butcher & Farm shop & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

Elms Farm of Costock

Elms Farm in Costock our Food Producer of the Year 2019/20. Its ethos is to focus on native and heritage breeds and produce slow-grown meat…
Award Winners & Butcher & Cheese & Farm shop & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

Farndon Fields Farm Shop

One of the country’s biggest and best farm shops, stocking fresh fruit and veg grown in fields next door, local meats and a range of superb delicacies. There’s a café, too…
Award Winners & Bakery & Cafe & DINING – ALL TYPES & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Rutland

Hambleton Bakery Cafe, Exton

Hambleton Bakery produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries and offers an excellent cafe…
Award Winners & Bakery & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

Hambleton Bakery | Market Harborough

Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces mouthwatering breads and pastries in its woodfired oven…
Award Winners & Bakery & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Rutland

Hambleton Bakery | Oakham

Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces mouthwatering breads and pastries in its woodfired oven…
Award Winners & Bakery & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Northamptonshire

Hambleton Bakery | Oundle

Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries in its giant woodfired oven…
Award Winners & Bakery & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Lincolnshire

Hambleton Bakery | Stamford

Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries in its giant woodfired oven…
Award Winners & Bakery & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Nottinghamshire

Hambleton Bakery | West Bridgford

Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces a mouthwatering array of bread and pastries in its giant woodfired oven. Its West Bridgford shop is its newest…
Award Winners & DINING – ALL TYPES & Fine dining in Rutland

Hambleton Hall

Hambleton Hall on the banks of Rutland Water is one of the most special places to eat and stay in Britain, combining luxury with Michelin-starred cooking…
Award Winners & DINING – ALL TYPES & Fine dining & OTHER in Leicestershire

Hammer & Pincers

The Hammer & Pincers in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, impresses with its attention to detail, professional service and excellent cooking…
Award Winners & Farm shop & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Nottinghamshire

Harker’s Farm Shop

Animal welfare and a passion for high quality local food are two reasons why the shop on Blackberry Farm, established in 1954, has a reputation for selling some of the region’s best meat…
Award Winners & DINING – ALL TYPES & OTHER in Rutland

Hitchen’s Barn

Hitchen’s Barn in Oakham was our Casual Dining Restaurant of the Year 2020/21. It offers skilful cooking and a lovely setting…
Award Winners & Cafe & DINING – ALL TYPES & OTHER in Leicestershire

JB Kitchen

JB Kitchen in Birstall, Leicestershire, has evolved into a bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Birstall, Leicestershire, and is our Food Hero of the Year 2020/21…
Award Winners & DINING – ALL TYPES & Fine dining & OTHER in Leicestershire

John’s House Restaurant

Creative fine dining on a family farm – one of the Midlands’ most special gastronomic experiences. A holder of one Michelin Star…
Award Winners & Butcher & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Nottinghamshire

Johnny Pusztai at JT Beedham & Son

Johnny Pusztai of Sherwood, Nottingham, is a former Observer Food Monthly’s Producer of the Year. Britain’s best butcher?
Award Winners & DINING – ALL TYPES & OTHER in Nottinghamshire

Kushi-ya

Kushi-ya in Nottingham was our World Cuisine Restaurant of the Year 2020/21. It serves kushiyaki – Japanese-style grilled skewers…
Award Winners & Bakery & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Rutland

Lily & Honey Bakery

Lily & Honey Bakery in Oakham offers sourdough loaves and other treats baked freshly on the premises each day by owners Robert and Nicolle Bradbury…
Award Winners & Dairy farms & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

Manor Farm Dairy

Probably the best yogurt you’ll ever taste, handmade on the family farm in Leicestershire…
Award Winners & Farm shop & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

Manor Organic Farm Shop

Manor Farm is an organic butchery, bakery and tearoom situated at the heart of a working farm in north Leicestershire…
Award Winners & Farm shop & OTHER & SHOPPING – ALL TYPES in Leicestershire

March House Farm Shop

The star of March House Farm Shop near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is its long and impressive butchery counter, which sells home-grown beef, lamb, pork and more…

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Find a great Award Winners in your region

Alchemilla

All Mine Cakes (By The Lake)

Braybrooke Beer Co.

Brentingby Gin

Brewster’s Brewery

Bulwick Village Shop & Cafe

Chef Craig Floate

Chez Sebastien Artisan Pizza

Christopher James Deli

Croots Farm Shop & Café

Elms Farm of Costock

Farndon Fields Farm Shop

Hambleton Bakery Cafe, Exton

Hambleton Bakery | Market Harborough

Hambleton Bakery | Oakham

Hambleton Bakery | Oundle

Hambleton Bakery | Stamford

Hambleton Bakery | West Bridgford

Hambleton Hall

Hammer & Pincers

Harker’s Farm Shop

Hitchen’s Barn

JB Kitchen

John’s House Restaurant

Johnny Pusztai at JT Beedham & Son

Kushi-ya

Lily & Honey Bakery

Manor Farm Dairy

Manor Organic Farm Shop

March House Farm Shop