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Cornwall brings home the bacon: 2008 award winners are announced
Cornish producers are celebrating after the winners of
New restaurant in Helston brings more
the prestigious Taste of the West Awards were
choice to the table
announced.
A panel of experts, among them chefs, industry A new restaurant brand from leading UK hospitality group Whitbread has
specialists and restaurateurs, judged over 1,100 products come to Helston with the opening of The May Tree Table Table (pictured
from across the South West. Sponsored for the 10th year below) on Clodgey Lane.
by Musgrave, the awards are designed to encourage and Designed to address the UK’s ever evolving dining out habits, new brand Table
highlight excellence across the food and drink industry. Table launched across the country in May 2008 with over 100 restaurants.
Thirty-one Cornish producers were awarded, in total, 36 gold, 25 silver and 9 Based around a wide variety of tables, the restaurant offers different
bronze awards. Among them were new hit the Cornish Sea Salt Co, Cornish styles of dining spaces to allow customers to tailor their experience. In
Orchards, and Toppenrose Dairy. the space of one restaurant there is everything from intimate and
romantic dining areas for two to large party areas in separate rooms for
Six-figure supermarket deal for Cornish crab
groups of friends and family to get together. Customers are also able to
tailor the type of food they eat and the formality of service they receive,
Brothers Richard Corner and Neville Pittman (pictured below), who from pub meals with a gastro twist, to sharing platters and three course
established the Newlyn business Seafood & Eat It, have targeted a gap in the suppers with full table service.
market and landed a lucrative deal with the Waitrose supermarket chain. General manager of The May Tree Table Table Ryan Evans said: “This is a
Previously selling to pubs and restaurants in Cornwall, this move, supplying really exciting eating out concept for Helston. As the population begins to
sustainable handpicked crab, is expected to increase their business by 70 per lead more and more busy and varied lifestyles Table Table restaurants fit in
cent. Not bad in a climate where the nation seems to be collectively cutting back. with the hectic lives of our guests and their friends and family members.”
Championing crab and celebrating the coastline around which it is caught,
the brothers’ aim is to offer the public a taste of the Cornish seaside wherever
they are. With more people now experimenting with cooking different kinds
of fish, Sea Food & Eat It’s high-quality, non-imported product seems to have
really hit the spot.
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