The List magazine’s annual Eating and Drinking Guide announced the winners of its awards for 2018 last night at an event in Barras Art and Design. To mark the guide’s 25th anniversary edition, a new style was adopted providing a single list of eight recipients of the annual award.
The awards highlight the reviewers and editors’ choice of the most exciting places of the past 12 months in Edinburgh and Glasgow across all different styles, from fine dining to cafés or street food.
Guide editor Jay Thundercliffe explained: “This year we’ve covered almost 1000 food and drink venues, including some 160 new arrivals. The awards allow us to highlight the best of these newcomers as well as celebrate one or two individuals who make an outstanding contribution to Scottish food and drink”.
Four of the winners are based in or around Glasgow. Julie’s Kopitiam, is a café established in late 2017 in Shawlands by Julie Lin Macleod, while Monadh Kitchen is a Bearsden restaurant set up by former One Devonshire Gardens chef Martin Thliveros.
Quickly established as a popular spot on Hyndland Road, Partick Duck Club is recognised for its all-day brunch menu, while an award was also made to Craig Tannock, owner-operator of various venues in Glasgow which have championed local music and vegan dining including Mono, Stereo, The 78, the Old Hairdresser’s and the Flying Duck.
In addition, the newly published guide announced the results of its annual Readers’ Awards, made in association with Birra Moretti, a poll conducted in recent months on line with thousands of readers voting for their favourite venue in each city.
Winner of the Glasgow poll was Shawlands Café Strange Brew, with runners-up Potluck café in Strathbungo, and Malaysian newcomer on the Southside, Julie’s Kopitiam.
The List Eating and Drinking Guide 2018 is available from bookshops, newsagents and online, priced £7.95.