Our winners revealed....
Triple success for London Pub in National Pub Food Challenge
James Rogers, chef/licensee of Hall & Woodhouse tenancy the Woodman in Battersea, London, has picked up three awards in the PMA's National Pub Food Challenge 2013.
Rogers was announced as winner of Best Dish of the Competition at a winners' lunch held at the Michelin-starred Royal Oak, at Paley Street, Berkshire. He was recognised for his chef's sample platter of home-cured meats which he creates at the pub.
Rogers also picked up trophies for Best Bar Snacks Offer, with dishes including wild boar Scotch egg, and Best Steak & Chips Offer.
The Best Business Innovation award, was won by Nick Atfield licensee/chef of Adnams tenancy the Harbour Inn, Blackshore, Suffolk for his mobile fish and chips hut. The winner of the award was selected from all challenge winners and finalists.
Award winners in nine other categories, which celebrate classic British dishes, were also presented with their trophies at the event.
Our category winners, highly commendeds and finalists are listed below:
Best Bar Snacks Offer
WINNER: The Woodman, Battersea, South-West London
Finalists: The Crabtree Inn, Lower Beeding, West Sussex and The White Horse, Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk
Best Burger Offer
WINNER: Benson Blakes Bar & Grill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Finalists: The James Figg, Thame, Oxfordshire and The Akeman, Tring, Hertfordshire
Best Curry Offer
WINNER: Noel Arms, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Finalists: Ring O'Bells, Christleton, Cheshire and The Fighting Cocks, Horton Kirby, Kent
Best Desserts Offer
WINNER: The Crabtree Inn, Lower Beeding, West Sussex
Highly Commended: Ye Old Sun Inn, Colton, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
Finalist: The Sun Inn, Dummer, Hampshire
Best Fish & Chips Offer
WINNER: The Ship, Plymouth, Devon
Highly Commended: The Harbour Inn, Southwold, Suffolk
Finalist: The Victory, Mersea, Essex
Best Pie Offer
WINNER: Broadfield Ale House, Sheffield
Highly Commended: The Black Bull, Balsham, Cambridgeshire
Finalist: George & Dragon, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
Best Roast Offer
WINNER: The Red Lion, Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire
Highly Commended: Hermitage Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Finalist: The Bell, Alderminster, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Best Sandwich Offer
WINNER: So! Bar & Eats, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Finalists: The Market Inn, Sandwich, Kent and The Woodman, Battersea, South-West London
Best Steak & Chips Offer
WINNER: The Woodman, Battersea, South-West London
Highly Commended: The Richard Onslow, Cranleigh, Surrey
Finalist: The Elm Tree, Elmton, Derbyshire
Business Innovation
WINNER: The Harbour Inn, Southwold, Suffolk
Best Dish
The Woodman, Battersea, South-West London
