The Wilson Organisation is delighted to return for a second year as headline sponsor of the Nottingham Restaurant Awards. Wilsons is a firm supporter of the restaurant industry and wider food industry and we feel it’s important to highlight the great restaurants we have here on our doorstep, and encourage people to eat out and enjoy them whenever they can!
Wilsons provides professional and independent insurance, financial and risk management advice to businesses and individuals throughout the East Midlands and nationally.
When it comes to catering, Cookco offer everything not just catering equipment. Cookco provide a full range of services including consultancy, design, delivery and after-sales support. At their head office and showroom, the discerning chef or conscientious owner will find absolutely everything needed for the kitchen, bar or restaurant. They provide an extensive range of top quality crockery, cutlery and kitchen utensils and have their own catalogue which showcases over 4,000 items.
Experience Nottinghamshire is supporting the use of local food and drink by the county’s restaurants, cafés, accommodation providers and attractions. The aim is to encourage visitors and residents to look out for local food and enjoy all that Nottinghamshire has to offer. This is helped by providing links between producers and tourism businesses, and promoting those businesses that source locally.
The Gourmet Society works with restaurants and diners to provide the best possible dining experience for all.
The Gourmet Society 2-for-1 Dining Card is just one initiative established by the Gourmet Society. With a Gourmet Society Dining Card, diners can enjoy fantastic savings at almost 3,000 restaurants across the UK, from Michelin-starred establishments to everyday family favourites, country inns and national chains. The Gourmet Society Dining Card entitles diners to 2-for-1 meals or 25% off their bill – including drinks – at the entire network of participating restaurants throughout the country. Check out the website for more details.
ibrow media ltd has gained a reputation for quality, versatility and the ability to carry multi-faceted projects from conception to completion including everything from business cards, brochures and point of sale material to online services such as e-commerce web sites and digital brochures.
Having supported the Nottingham Restaurant Awards for the past 3 years, they are pleased to be sponsoring the new award - Best Pub Food for this year.
Imperial Linen Services are a Mansfield based company who have been supplying laundry services for well over 100 years to businesses throughout the East Midlands. They are privately owned, employing over 130 staff and are very proud of their hard earned reputation within the industry.
They specialise in providing a 5 star high quality linen rental service to hotels and restaurants of all sizes using superior quality linen products and they offer a genuine understanding of the often very demanding needs of individual customers. They currently process something in the region of 500,000 pieces per week and are able to achieve this by consistent investment in modern equipment, ensuring the highest quality product to their customers.
They are delighted to be able to support the Nottingham Restaurant Awards 2008 and take great pleasure in sponsoring two awards this year, The Best Out of Town Award and Best Cafe/Deli Award.
Kitchen Confidential is the hospitality recruitment arm of an already well established and successful recruitment company, TM Labourcall. Passionate about food and drink and the people involved in the industry, Kitchen Confidential has an experienced and skillful team ready to deliver. With directors who not only know the industry inside out but have been a fundamental part of it, they know exactly what it takes to marry quality staff with the right client. Kitchen Confidential… the cutting edge of recruitment.
Living.tv offers an exciting online tour of the best restaurants and hotels in Nottinghamshire and across the country. Our 'fly-on-the-wall' video tours allow potential customers to walk-around restaurants and hotels before making a reservation. Now that this technlogy exists, people simply won't be prepared to book without looking around first. With new restaurants coming online daily, customers can at last book with absolute confidence. As well as restaurants and hotels, the site also caters for many other industry sectors, including weddings, retail, days out, motoring, travel, property, home & garden, health & leisure, and much more. See it, hear it, believe it... Tour Nottinghamshire's best restaurants now online at: www.living.tv
Matthew Clark is the leading drinks wholesaler in the UK. With more than 4000 products in their range, including over 1100 wines. They offer a comprehensive support package ensuring service standards are of the highest level.
Matthew Clark will be providing the wine and champagne at the Nottingham Restaurant Awards Ceremony 2008.
The Hospitality and Catering Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) at New College Nottingham is delighted to continue its sponsorship of ‘Young Chef of the Year’, a significant category within the prestigious Nottingham Restaurant Awards.
Aiming to equip learners with industry skills, work with employers, and support a regional drive for increased professionalism, the CoVE supports a number of successful partnerships and projects.
Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd is a catering and retail butcher based in Leabrooks near Alfreton in Derbyshire. They have been established for nearly 90 years supplying a wide range of the highest quality fresh meats, poultry, game, cooked meats, sausages and award winning bakery products. Striving for perfection in consistency and flavour they purchase livestock from local farms ensuring ‘farm to plate’ traceability.
Supplying many of the finest restaurants in the region, Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd are one of the leading suppliers in the East Midlands.
A young, dynamic, local IT company with passion and vision to deliver IT solutions to any size of business, be it a single user or multiple, complex systems. PhillipsTaylorBrown specialises in the design, implementation and support of low maintenance infrastructures; PTB doesn’t sell systems, it sells solutions.
This is a friendly, honest and efficient team that work independently of any major organisations, this independence allows PTB to deliver truly objective solutions tailor made to the client’s specific needs.
We are a design, print and mailing company with B2 printing facilities and digital printing capabilities. Our expertise, experience and highly skilled workforce, co-located on one site between Nottingham and Derby, will give you top quality and cost effective results for your business.
For more information please call us on 0115 9447600, visit our website at www.stirlandpaterson.co.uk or email us on info@stirlandpaterson.co.uk
Unsoy Food Industries (UK) Ltd is part of Unsoy Food Industries Turkey, producer of top quality, dried fruits, So2 free sundried tomatoes and 00% natural semidried tomatoes. Unsoy supply leading companies throughout the world, including Cadbury, Nestle, Tesco, Masterfoods and Weetabix with products such as sultanas, raisins and mixed fruit.
Working in the food industry, Unsoy are keen to extend their lines into quality restaurants, hence their involvement with this year’s Restaurant Awards. Sponsors of Best Set Lunch Menu this award marries quality and value, something which Unsoy identify with.
At Young & Pearce we believe in putting our clients first. We specialise in providing a wide range of legal services tailored to the needs of Nottingham’s restaurants and bars. Our emphasis is firmly on personal service and excellence. As such we are proud to support the Best Waiter/Waitress Award in 2009.
BBC Radio Nottingham continues to support the Nottingham Restaurant Awards and more can be heard about the event, the challenges the restaurants face, the cuisine and the dining scene across the city and county. Tune in every weekday morning to Frances Finn from 9am.
Heart 106 is delighted to continue supporting Nottingham's Restauarant Awards. Catch Sam and Amy from Heart Breakfast at the Awards in June, and listen every weekday morning from 6am-10am.
Covering a wide distribution area, the magazine publishes all the latest up-to-date fashion trends and style tips along with the hottest places to eat and drink in the region.
Russums offer an extensive choice of professional clothing and equipment for chefs and front of house, as well as an in-house embroidery service, shoes, professional knives, small equipment, complemented by academic and cookery books to inform and inspire through our book division Virtue Books.
Smooth Radio are proud to be supporting the Nottingham Restaurant Awards 2008. Listen to Gary Burton at Breakfast weekday mornings from 6am. Smooth Radio on 106.6fm, DAB and on-line at www.smoothradio.com
