Finest NSW Hospitality Businesses recognised for excellence

Hospitality businesses across the Sydney metropolitan area and regional NSW were formally recognised in last night’s Savour AustraliaTM Restaurant & Catering HOSTPLUS Awards for Excellence held at Luna Park.

The winners across this year’s major categories included:

Restaurant of the Year:

• Tetsuya’s Restaurant, SYDNEY – Sydney Winner
•  Esca at Bimbadgen, POKOLBIN – Regional NSW Winner

Café of the Year:

• Café Shenkin, ERSKINEVILLE – Sydney Winner
•  Awaba House Restaurant & Café, BOORAGUL – Regional NSW Winner 

Caterer of the Year:  

• Events by Aria - Carriage Works, SYDNEY – Sydney Winner
• H&H Catering, WYONG – Regional NSW Winner

Lifetime Achiever Award - Peter Bignasca

Hall of Fame Award - David Thompson

Restaurateur of the Year Award - Kylie Kwong

Consumer Vote Awards: 

• The Cottage, SCONE – Northern NSW
•  Kohli’s Indian, NOWRA – Southern NSW
•  The Meat & Wine Co, CIRCULAR QUAY – Sydney Metro

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 the NSW’s top cafés, restaurants and catering businesses out of a total of more than 15,000 across the state.

“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 extraordinary efforts go into making NSW’s hospitality industry the outstanding success that is today. Some of the winning businesses in NSW will compete at the national Awards for Excellence held at Peninsula in Melbourne on Monday 30 October.

19th September 2017