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The Awards 2016View last year's North West finalists
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The Food Porn Awards™

So what's it all about?

The Food Porn Awards™ is a celebration of great looking food from the North's best Restaurants, Boutique Pubs, Cafe Bars and Alternative Eateries. The dish you're most proud of and the one your customers can't resist. It can be a classic favourite or a new recipe with a twist.

If it looks too good for words, we can't wait to see it.

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The Judges

Judging Panel to be revealed September 2016
Guest judge announced Sept 2016
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A feast for the eyes

See last year's finalists
Chilled lobster meat dressed in a light Japanese mayonnaise, drenched in lemon & garlic butter sauce, served in a toasted brioche bun.
Burger & Lobster, King Street
Finalist - 2016
Alternative Eats
Introducing the Sapporo sushi platter. This artfully arranged selection of signature sushi and gyoza dishes includes delights ranging from classic California rolls to crispy gyoza dumplings, sure to tickle the tastebuds of any Asian food-lover.
Sapporo Teppanyaki
Finalist - 2016
Alternative Eats
A moist, chocolate sponge layer cake with rich chocolate buttercream, oozing lashings of salted caramel.
The Princess & The Cupcake
Category Winner - 2016
Alternative Eats
A fresh, whole chargrilled lobster served alongside one of Manzo’s famous homemade 6oz burgers. Garnished, of course, with chunky chips. An indulgence our customers tell us they crave!
Manzo Grill House, Liverpool
Finalist - 2016
Alternative Eats
'Taste of the Sea' showcases the very best flavours of the sea. Hand dived scallops, razor clams, brown shrimp, surf clams and cockles on edible sand with sea vegetables and foam.
Hearth of the Ram
Category Winner - 2016
Boutique Pubs
A smorgasbord of carefully crafted delights including mixed olives, houmous, scotch egg with piccalilli, pomegranate & minted pearl couscous and coronation chicken served up with a Turkish flatbread.
The Botanist
Finalist - 2016
Boutique Pubs
Oozing Lancashire cheese bonbons studded with house pickled onion, fancy Dan beetroot and balsamic.
Beef & Pudding
Finalist - 2016
Boutique Pubs
A slow cooked, British beef long rib slab, glazed with smoked paprika and honey. Served with proper chips, green beans and a bearnaise sauce.
The Montgomery
Finalist - 2016
Boutique Pubs
'Tomahawk Steak' - A huge 1.2kg of the finest 100% pure bred, grass fed, Limousin bone-in ribeye. This full-flavoured cut is served up with house-cut chips, French beans, grilled tomato and a mushroom.
The Grill on the Alley, Manchester
Category Winner - 2016
Casual Dining
This samosa chaat is filled with potato, peas and chickpeas, topped with a lip smacking combination of yoghurt, mint and tamarind chutney.
Scene, Indian Street Kitche
Finalist - 2016
Casual Dining
The Pack's shredded duck & mango salad is filled with delicate flavours to tantalise your taste buds. Slow roasted hoisin shredded duck garnished with fresh mango shavings, strips of cucumber, dressed with a touch of hoisin sauce, scattered with sliced spring onions and pomegranate seeds.
The Pack
Finalist - 2016
Casual Dining
My Grandma's decadent, dark chocolate sponge recipe includes a top-secret ingredient, discovered only when you break through the exterior Kit Kat™ biscuit bars. A further chocolate hit comes from the buttercream and chocolates which are scattered across the top - chocolate heaven in a slice!
Vicky's Coffee & Cupcakes
Finalist - 2016
Casual Dining
'Fifty Shades of Langoustine' - Crystal rice, red caviar, king scallops, asparagus, 23ct gold leaf and langoustine.
Don Giovanni
Finalist - 2016
Fine Dining
Chocolate textures with apricot.
Restaurant Fraiche
Finalist - 2016
Fine Dining
Pan seared scallop, pea purée, ham hock spring roll with pork crackling.
Earle by Simon Rimmer
Category Winner / Overall Winner - 2016
Fine Dining
Mille feuille of dark, milk and white chocolate with hazelnut cream, gin infused blackberries, Earl Grey ice cream and sable biscuit.
The London Carriage Works
Finalist - 2016
Fine Dining
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Chilled lobster meat dressed in a light Japanese mayonnaise, drenched in lemon & garlic butter sauce, served in a toasted brioche bun.
Burger & Lobster, King Street
Finalist - 2016
Alternative Eats
Introducing the Sapporo sushi platter. This artfully arranged selection of signature sushi and gyoza dishes includes delights ranging from classic California rolls to crispy gyoza dumplings, sure to tickle the tastebuds of any Asian food-lover.
Sapporo Teppanyaki
Finalist - 2016
Alternative Eats
A moist, chocolate sponge layer cake with rich chocolate buttercream, oozing lashings of salted caramel.
The Princess & The Cupcake
Category Winner - 2016
Alternative Eats
A fresh, whole chargrilled lobster served alongside one of Manzo’s famous homemade 6oz burgers. Garnished, of course, with chunky chips. An indulgence our customers tell us they crave!
Manzo Grill House, Liverpool
Finalist - 2016
Alternative Eats
'Taste of the Sea' showcases the very best flavours of the sea. Hand dived scallops, razor clams, brown shrimp, surf clams and cockles on edible sand with sea vegetables and foam.
Hearth of the Ram
Category Winner - 2016
Boutique Pubs
A smorgasbord of carefully crafted delights including mixed olives, houmous, scotch egg with piccalilli, pomegranate & minted pearl couscous and coronation chicken served up with a Turkish flatbread.
The Botanist
Finalist - 2016
Boutique Pubs
Oozing Lancashire cheese bonbons studded with house pickled onion, fancy Dan beetroot and balsamic.
Beef & Pudding
Finalist - 2016
Boutique Pubs
A slow cooked, British beef long rib slab, glazed with smoked paprika and honey. Served with proper chips, green beans and a bearnaise sauce.
The Montgomery
Finalist - 2016
Boutique Pubs
'Tomahawk Steak' - A huge 1.2kg of the finest 100% pure bred, grass fed, Limousin bone-in ribeye. This full-flavoured cut is served up with house-cut chips, French beans, grilled tomato and a mushroom.
The Grill on the Alley, Manchester
Category Winner - 2016
Casual Dining
This samosa chaat is filled with potato, peas and chickpeas, topped with a lip smacking combination of yoghurt, mint and tamarind chutney.
Scene, Indian Street Kitche
Finalist - 2016
Casual Dining
The Pack's shredded duck & mango salad is filled with delicate flavours to tantalise your taste buds. Slow roasted hoisin shredded duck garnished with fresh mango shavings, strips of cucumber, dressed with a touch of hoisin sauce, scattered with sliced spring onions and pomegranate seeds.
The Pack
Finalist - 2016
Casual Dining
My Grandma's decadent, dark chocolate sponge recipe includes a top-secret ingredient, discovered only when you break through the exterior Kit Kat™ biscuit bars. A further chocolate hit comes from the buttercream and chocolates which are scattered across the top - chocolate heaven in a slice!
Vicky's Coffee & Cupcakes
Finalist - 2016
Casual Dining
'Fifty Shades of Langoustine' - Crystal rice, red caviar, king scallops, asparagus, 23ct gold leaf and langoustine.
Don Giovanni
Finalist - 2016
Fine Dining
Chocolate textures with apricot.
Restaurant Fraiche
Finalist - 2016
Fine Dining
Pan seared scallop, pea purée, ham hock spring roll with pork crackling.
Earle by Simon Rimmer
Category Winner / Overall Winner - 2016
Fine Dining
Mille feuille of dark, milk and white chocolate with hazelnut cream, gin infused blackberries, Earl Grey ice cream and sable biscuit.
The London Carriage Works
Finalist - 2016
Fine Dining
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