Food and drink companies from across the Northwest are being invited to enter the fifth annual Food Northwest Awards and the Fine Food Northwest Awards 2010.
Organised by Food Northwest, the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) cluster organisation set up to lead the food and drink industry, and to help to grow the Northwest regional economy, the Food Northwest Awards celebrate the successes of businesses across Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
They acknowledge companies from all areas of the industry, from farm to fork, including food retail and service, wholesale, distribution, food processing and agriculture. This year’s awards will focus on the theme ‘Fabulous Food’ and will highlight the diversity, energy, enthusiasm and sheer hard work of companies excelling in their sector, across the Northwest. The winners will be announced at a Gala Awards dinner, hosted by Lucy Meacock of ITN and Granada TV, on Thursday June 24, 2010, at Manchester’s Midland Hotel.
This year’s Fine Food Northwest Awards*, which recognise the best fine foods in the region, will be judged by the region’s top chefs and food experts in early June, with the ten winners battling it out in two fine food categories in the overall Food Northwest Awards.
Last year there were over 400 fine food entries with Cheshire-based winners including Tarvin restaurant bar and delicatessen, The Gunnery, which was named winner of the ‘prepared meals’ category for its game pie. Eddisbury Fruit Farm in Kelsall won the fine foods ‘beverages’ category with its Cheshire Cider.
Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire Cheese was named winner of the ‘’dairy’ category in the Fine Food Northwest Awards 2009, for its Mrs Kirkham’s Tasty Lancashire. Master butcher, Kevin Berkins, who runs The Eagle at Barrow in Clitheroe and The Fence Gate Inn near Burnley, won the ‘sausages’ category for his leek and black pudding sausages.
Church Farm Organics in Thurstaston, Wirral, won the ‘fruit and vegetables’ category for its organic asparagus, while Southport Seafoods based in Shellfield Road, Southport, won the ‘fish and seafood’ category for its Genuine Southport Potted Shrimps in Butter.
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