Hospitality businesses across both the Sydney metropolitan area and regional NSW were formally recognised on Monday 18 September at Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Hostplus Awards for Excellence held at Luna Park.
Tetsuya’s Restaurant took at Restaurant of the Year for the Sydney Metropolitan area, while Esca at Bimbadgen was awarded the Regional NSW Restaurant of the Year. The Sydney Metropolitan winner of Café of the Year went to Shenkin in Erskineville, with Booragul venue Awaba House Restaurant & Café named the Regional NSW winner.
Events by Aria won Caterer of the Year — Sydney Metropolitan and H&H Catering in Wyong was awarded Regional NSW winner.
Other major awards included:
- Lifetime Achiever Award — Peter Bignasca
- Hall of Fame Award — David Thompson
- Restaurateur of the Year Award — Kylie Kwong
Consumer vote award winners included:
- The Cottage, Scone — Northern NSW
- Kohli’s Indian, Nowra — Southern NSW
- The Meat & Wine Co, Circular Quay — Sydney Metropolitan
R&CA CEO Juliana Payne congratulated each of the finalists and winners of the Awards on behalf of the Association.
“I’m delighted to be able to recognise tonight just a handful of NSW’s top cafés, restaurants and catering businesses out of a total of more than 15,000 across the state,” she says.
“As we all know, running a café, restaurant or catering business involves an incredible amount of passion, hard work and dedication which often results in very little recognition.
“Tonight’s Awards are all about putting the focus squarely on those individuals whose efforts go into making NSW’s hospitality industry the outstanding success that is today”
Many of the winning businesses in NSW will compete at the national Awards for Excellence held at Peninsula in Melbourne on Monday 30 October.
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