Brakespear pub wins Good Food accolade

By Lesley Foottit

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Orwells team: winners
Orwells team: winners
A Brakspear pub has been named a regional winner of The Good Food Guide's Restaurant of the Year Award. Orwells in Shiplake near Henley won the...

A Brakspear pub has been named a regional winner of The Good Food Guide's Restaurant of the Year Award.

Orwells in Shiplake near Henley won the south-east category and will now be in with a chance of being named The Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year.

Michelin-starred chef Ryan Simpson and partner Liam Trotman took on the pub in May 2010.

Simpson, who was named Up and Coming Chef in the 2010 Good Food Guide, said, "The Good Food Guide awards are based on customer feedback, so winning one shows that our customers are happy with what we offer at Orwells. It's a fantastic accolade for us and I'm grateful to our great team of staff, and to all the customers who nominated us."

Brakspear chief executive Tom Davies said: "Ryan is an exceptionally talented, creative chef and we are delighted that Orwells has been such a success. We are always keen to work with chefs wanting to run their own restaurant and our business model provides a relatively low-cost, low-risk route for them. Winning this award within a year of opening is a great achievement and we wish Ryan and Liam well in the national judging."

Nine other regional winners will go forward to the national judging stage with the overall winner named at an awards ceremony on 23 June.

Around 27,500 diners nominated their favourite restaurants, pubs and cafés across the UK for the awards.

The other regional winners are:

• Wales - Cwtch, Pembrokeshire

• East of England - Roger Hickman's Restaurant, Norwich

• London - Retro Bistrot, Teddington

• Midlands - Edmunds, Birmingham

• Northern Ireland - Molly's Yard, Belfast

• North-west - Spire, Liverpool

• North-east - Salvo's, Leeds

• Scotland - Ondine, Edinburgh

• South-west - The Mill Tea & Dining Room, Lyme Regis

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