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Awards serve up the North East?s best restaurants

The region’s top restaurants were announced last week at an awards ceremony at The Sage Gateshead. The ceremony, in honour of the North East Restaurant Awards, saw more than 200 restaurateurs attend the only event of its kind in the region.

Fourteen categories were voted for by the public, with more than 10,000 people registering to vote, while the prestigious ‘Best Restaurant’ title, won by McCoys Tontine was judged by a panel of North East food critics from the region’s media.

The awards, organised by the Gourmet Society, are in their second year and include all restaurants from Berwick to the Tees. Every restaurant in the region was automatically entered into the online voting system and it was up to the public to choose their winner.

Rob Collins, director of the awards, said: “So many local restaurateurs turned out for the awards and we have had some great feedback about how the awards are raising the culinary profile of the region. Our aim was to put the North East restaurant scene firmly on the map and to single out the very best restaurants both big and small and I think that last night more than achieved this.

“The awards have been a great success and I was delighted with the response from the public in voting for what they thought were the best restaurants across our region – it’s important to get a true reflection of what diners themselves think.”

A full list of winners and runners up can be found at www.northeastrestaurantawards.co.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .