Voting for the 2018 Eat Game Awards - a wonderful initiative celebrating our beautiful British game meat - closes on September 30th. Vote for your favourite shortlisted nominees today!

credit: Archant

The Eat Game Awards is a brand-new initiative created by three leading British businesses, James Purdey & Sons Ltd, Boisdale Restaurants and Taste of Game, bringing together the shooting, game meat and hospitality sectors to celebrate the wild game meat produced in Britain.

The Awards embark on a national search to find the champions of British game and to reward their success, innovation and passion in working with this natural countryside harvest. The Eat Game Awards website previously called for the general public to nominate their favourite game meat business or person, and they are now able to vote for their top nominees from the 12th August to the 30th September 2018.

The individual or business with the most votes will win in each category. The results will be announced at the Eat Game Awards dinner at Boisdale Canary Wharf on the 9th October 2018. The addition of a Scottish Prize, in partnership with Scotland’s Natural Larder (SNL), will cover the ‘Best Scottish Entry’ in each of the categories (excluding Champion of Champions).

The nominated charity that the Awards will be supporting is The Country Food Trust, whose aim is to feed those in need with game meat casseroles packaged in ready-to-eat long-life pouches.

To vote, just CLICK HERE

credit: Archant

The shortlisted nominees for each category in the 2018 East Game Awards are as follows:

BEST RESTAURANT

Bistro Forty-Six – Jesmond, Newcastle

Caddy Man – Mouthooly, Jedburgh

The Shed, Rabbit & Nutbourne – London

Tweed Restaurant – Dryburgh Abbey Hotel

The Cart Shed – Epping, Essex

The Jugged Hare – Barbican, London

Mrs Miller’s – Culgaith, Cumbria

Marchbank Country House Hotel – Longtown, Carlisle

The Game Bird – St. James’s, London

The Pig Hotel – Brockenhurst, Hampshire

BEST PUB

The Bell Hotel – Winslow, Buckinghamshire

The Kings Arms – Wing, Oakham, Rutland

The Sutton Keeper – Sutton, Macclesfield

Holly Bush – Church Broughton, Derby

Ye Olde Red Lion Bicker – Bicker, Lincolnshire

Sinclair’s Kitchen – Forfar, Angus

The Ferry House Inn – Harty, Isle of Sheppey

The Malet Arms – Newton Tony, Wiltshire

The Rigbye Arms – Wrightington, Lancashire

The Talbot at Knightwick – Knightwick, Worcestershire

BEST CHEF

Tristan Prudden – Constable Burton Hall, North Yorkshire

Adam Fanson – Loyton Lodge, Devon

Bob Wright – The Eagles Inn, Powys

Chris Lee – Bildeston Crown, Suffolk

Jessica Noy – The Gamekeeper’s Daughter, Suffolk

Fergus Henderson – St. John Restaurant, London

Tom Kitchin – The Kitchin Restaurant, Edinburgh

Tom Aikens – Tom’s Kitchen, Birmingham & London

Philip Howard – Elystan Street, London

Richard Corrigan – Corrigan’s, Lonon

Brett Graham – The Ledbury, London

Tom Godber-Ford Moore – Edgcott Farm, Somerset

BEST FARMERS MARKET

Ox Close Game – Wetherby, North Yorkshire

The Clucking Pig – Maske, North Yorkshire

The Velveteen Rabbit Luncheon Club – Stockton-On-Tees

Beth’s Mogador – Folkestone, Kent

Clinton Venison – Budleigh, Salterton, Devon

Stour Valley Game – Chilham, Kent

Country Box – Norwich, Norfolk

Gisby’s Game – New Alresford, Hampshire

Seriously Good Venison – Lower Friarton, Perth

BEST ADDED VALUE PRODUCT

Apley Farm Shop – Norton, Shropshire

Cwmfarm – Pontardawe, Swansea

Standbury Wild Game Pies – Cheriton Bishop, Devon

Truly Traceable – Halesworth, Suffolk

Hadrian’s Game Larder – Hexham, Northumberland

Norfolk Charcuterie – King’s Lynn, Norfolk

Furness Game – Grange-over-sands, Cumbria

Wild & Game – Westbury on Trym, Bristol

Great Glen Charcuterie – Roy Bridge, Highlands

Duchy Charcuterie – Redruth, Cornwall

BEST MULTIPLE

Morrisons

Iceland

Marks & Spencer

Booths Supermarket

Aldi

Waitrose

Lidl

Sainsbury

GAME HERO

Angus Gowns Moorland – Angus

Wayne Tuffin – Shropshire. Welsh Marches

Tristan Prudden – Constable Burton Hall, North Yorkshire

Mark Howard – Glemham Hall Estate, Suffolk

Lincolnshire Game – Boston, Lincolnshire

The Scott Rea Project – St. Johns, Worcestershire

Rachel Richards – Kingussie High School, Inverness

Hunter Gather Cook – Lewes, Sussex

Keith Watson – Game for the Table

Ralph Skirpek – Butler’s Pantry, Derby

Tim Maddems – Yarcombe, Devon

Tim Woodward – The Country Food Trust, London

James Martin, TV Chef

Jamie Oliver, TV Chef

Anglea Harnett, TV Chef

Rosemary Shrager, TV Chef

BEST BUTCHER

The Scott Rea Project – Worcester

Lavenham Butchers – Suffolk

Tim Hanks – Cornwalls’s Butchers, Ross on Wye

Chapmans Butchers – Hertfordshire

John Murray – Butcher & Game Dealer – West Sussex

Andy Beresford – Crouch End, North London

Mills & Sons (and Daughter) – Southwold, Suffolk

M. Moen & Sons – Clapham, London

Craigie Butchers – Kirkwall, Orkney

Gabriel Machin – Henley on Thames

BEST SMALL RETAILER

Danestream Farm Shop – New Milton, Hampshire

Bampton Game – Tiverton, Devon

The Wild Meat Company – Woodbridge, Suffolk

The Weyhill Farmshop – Andover, Hampshire

Foxholes Farm Shop – Hertford, Hertfordshire

Maisebrooke Farm Shop – Beccles, Suffolk

Partridges – Chelsea, London

Darts Farm Shop – Topsham, Devon

The Dorset Game Larder – Blandford, Dorset

Fonab Farm Foods – Pitlochry, Perthshire