UK’s Restaurant & Lodge Elite Honoured on the AA Hospitality Awards 2023

• Paul Ainsworth topped AA Cooks’ Chef of the Yr 
• AA Lifetime Achievement goes to Jonathan Raggett of Crimson Carnation Inns
• Pan Pacific London wins AA Accessible Award
• AA Sustainable Award goes to The PIG Lodge Group
• The Previous Stamp Home Restaurant, Chutney Mary, The Jackdaw and Cail Bruich named AA Eating places of the Yr 
• Forest Aspect, The Lanesborough, Penally Abbey Lodge, Fingal, and Killeavy Fort Property topped AA Inns of the Yr
• South Lodge awarded Spa Lodge of the Yr
• New eating places and accommodations awarded AA Rosettes and Crimson Stars

The Crème de la Crème of the UK hospitality trade gathered at JW Marriott Grosvenor Home tonight for the extremely anticipated AA Hospitality Awards 2023 hosted by AA Lodge & Hospitality Companies. The glittering awards ceremony, offered by TV presenter and broadcaster Claudia Winkleman, celebrated the UK’s prime accommodations, spas, eating places, and pubs and the individuals behind them.

In a stunning showcase of excellence, the awards hosted round 1,000 visitors to honour the excellent contributions to the UK’s hospitality sector, spanning a formidable array of fifteen classes. The evening’s highlights included the crowning of AA Restaurant of the Yr, AA Lodge of the Yr, AA Accessible Award, AA Spa Lodge of the Yr, AA Wine Award, AA Cooks’ Chef, AA Lifetime Achievement Award, AA Sustainable Award and AA Housekeeper of the Yr.

Simon Numphud, Managing Director at AA Media mentioned:

“It’s a delight to be again at Grosvenor Home as we mark the best hospitality celebration throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire. The final yr has been powerful on the hospitality trade as we’ve felt, like many others, the challenges dealing with companies. But I’m so pleased with the resilience, innovation and high quality proven by the UK hospitality trade in response. We want to prolong an enormous congratulations all of the winners and shortlisted institutions for his or her exhausting work, ardour, and dedication.”

The AA launched the famend star ranking scheme for high quality in 1908 and have continued to shine a well-deserved highlight on people and institutions who constantly ship excellence to their visitors. The AA Hospitality Awards, now celebrated as the top of recognition within the trade, have as soon as once more showcased the innovation, dedication, and brilliance that outline the UK’s hospitality panorama. As the celebs of hospitality proceed to rise, these awards have cemented their place as the final word authority in recognising excellence, setting the gold normal for accommodations and eating places throughout the nation. This yr, the AA is celebrating 115 years of recognising excellence in hospitality.

AA Hospitality Awards – 2023 winners

The complete listing of this yr’s AA Hospitality Awards winners may also be discovered at: https://www.ratedtrips.com/travel-ideas/discover-all-the-winners-from-the-aa-hospitality-awards-2023

Cooks’ Chef

Accessible Award

Sustainable Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

Excellent Contribution Award

Housekeeper of the Yr

• Nicola Burton from Hartwell Home & Spa, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Restaurant of the Yr

Lodge of the Yr

Restaurant with Rooms

Spa Lodge of the Yr

Group of the Yr

Small Lodge Group of the Yr

Meals Service Award

Finalists:

Wine Award

Faculty Restaurant of the Yr 

• @thirty-four Restaurant, Exeter Faculty

Finalists:

• Senara Restaurant, Truro & Penwith
• The Classroom, Cardiff and Vale Faculty

New 5 Rosettes

New 4 Rosettes 

New 3 Rosettes

• Next Door, Cheshire
• 1863 Restaurant with Rooms, Cumbria
• The Wildebeest, Norfolk
• The George at Alstonefield, Staffordshire.
• Forge, North Yorkshire
• The Lantern Room, West Yorkshire
• 1921 Angel Hill, Suffolk
• Restaurant Roots, Dorset
• The Cottage in the Wood, Worcestershire
• The Idle Rocks Restaurant, Cornwall
• The New Inn, Herefordshire
• The Lanesborough Grill, London
• The Cygnet at The Swan Inn, Oxfordshire
• Crockers Tring, Hertfordshire
• 8 By Andrew Sheridan, Liverpool
• The Newport Restaurant, Fife
• Legacy, North Yorkshire
• London Stock Restaurant, London
• The Clock House, Surrey
• The Bulls Head Inn, Derbyshire
• Behind, London
• The Star Inn at Harome, North Yorkshire
• Cedar Tree Restaurant by Hrishikesh Desai, Cumbria
• The Terrace Restaurant at The Montagu Arms Hotel, Hampshire
• Tradition Restaurant, Cornwall
• The Killingworth Castle, Wootton, Oxfordshire
• The Wild Rabbit, Kingham, Oxfordshire
• The Ethicurean, Bristol