The Foodism 100 is back for 2020: it's time to nominate your venue or business

Our annual celebration is back for its third year, ready to celebrate the hundreds of venues and businesses effecting positive change in the city's food and drink scene. Want to be involved? Here's how to nominate

Foodism editor Mike Gibson presenting the awards ceremony

Guest speaker Tom Hunt addresses the crowd

The winner of the Best Bar category, sponsored by St-Germain and presented by Tom Hunt, was Cub

The Best Café category, sponsored by Heath & Heather and presented by Lucy McLean, was won by Social Pantry Café

The Best Casual Restaurant award, sponsored by Oxley Gin and presented by St-Germain brand ambassador Cyan Wong, was won by Smoking Goat

Lyle's took home the Best Fine-Dining Restaurant award, sponsored by Santa Teresa and presented by St-Germain brand ambassador Cyan Wong

Borough Market won in the Best Food Market category, sponsored by Pic's Peanut Butter and presented by Cam MacLachlan

Jean-Marc Flambert of Kenwood Travel speaks at the ceremony

The Best Pop-Up or Initiative category, sponsored by Belazu and presented by Belazu's Alice Jarrett-Kerr, was won by #CookForSYRIA

The Best Social Enterprise award, sponsored by the Sustainable Restaurant Association and presented by the SRA's CEO Andrew Stephen, was won by Luminary Bakery

The Best Pub or Taproom category, sponsored by the Foodism Beer Club and presented by Foodism's beer editor Tom Powell (pictured), was won by Ignition Brewery, who couldn't be there on the night

The Best Street-Food Trader award, presented by Warren Sharples (pictured) and sponsored by iZettle, was won by Brixton People's Kitchen, who couldn't make it to the event

Ryan Riley (pictured) took home the Positive Change Hero award – sponsored by Karma Cola and presented by Albert Tucker, chair of the Karma Cola Foundation – for his work with cookery school Life Kitchen

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Published: Friday 6th December 2019

Foodism 100

So yeah, you've probably guessed by now that we're pretty into our food and drink. And not just any food and drink – our favourite kind is the grub that has real the potential to effect positive change.

So, when team Foodism began cooking up a way to reward the very venues and businesses that make London so special, we could think of nothing better than to focus on the businesses that not only serve great food and drink, but are doing good things with their businesses, too. The previous two years of Foodism 100, and the awards nights, brought together some of London's most incredible food and drink venues and businesses. This year's set to be bigger and better.

The Foodism 100 brings together some of London's most incredible food and drink venues and businesses, and this year is set to be bigger and better

From the best restaurants with a sustainable edge to the cafés who are helping coffee farmers earn a fair wage, the social enterprises giving people a much-needed second chance and the street-food traders changing the way fast food impacts the environment, these awards represent the cream of the crop in London's sustainable and ethical food and drink scene.

The categories

We'll be judging nominations for sustainable, ethical and responsible venues and businesses across the following categories:

Best Casual Restaurant

Venues serving food, which are approachably priced

Best Fine-Dining Restaurant

Restaurants who pride themselves on upmarket food and drink and silver service

Best Bar

Venues devoted to serving wine and cocktails

Best Pub or Taproom

Boozers in the British tradition and taprooms at breweries

Best Café or Bakery

Venues dedicated to daytime eating, tea and coffee and bakeries

Best Pop-Up or Initiative

Temporary or semi-permanent food and drink venues or initiatives – set up by individuals, groups or companies – that aim to promote ethical and sustainable eating and drinking

Best Street-Food Trader

Businesses making food and drink to sell at street-food and farmers' markets

Best Food Market

Farmers' markets, street-food venues – anywhere designed to house pop-up traders

Best Social Enterprise

People-focused businesses built from the ground to achieve positive change

Positive Change Hero

An individual working in any sector of sustainable and ethical food and drink who's driving the movement forward

Your nomination

Nominating your venue or business takes a few minutes and is done via a simple form.

Once nominations close, our panel will review the entries, and we'll announce the shortlist of 100 in January. The ten category winners will then be announced at an event on 25 March 2020 at Old Spitalfields Market.

Nominate your venue or business here

Only businesses with a London postcode will be eligible for entry. Got a favourite place you think deserves to be on the list? Make some noise on social media using the hashtag #Foodism100 and tell them!

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