Pizza, Pasta and Italian Food Industry Awards 2010
The Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Industry Awards 2010
Winners Announced
The quality standards among Britain’s top independent Italian and pizza restaurants is getting better and better, according to the judges of this year’s annual Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Industry Awards, with no fewer than 11 getting Gold Awards and two Platinums.
Scotland also features strongly in this year’s awards, almost half the independent winners coming from either Edinburgh or Glasgow with the overall Pizza Chef of the Year award going to Darren Smith from the Battlefield Restaurant in Glasgow.
Nationally Pizza Hut and Domino’s Pizza took the awards for national pizza restaurant and delivery chair, respectively, while Asda took top spot in the multiple chilled retailer category with the Co-op winning the convenience store category in the same section. Frozen pizza retailer was Iceland, while Morrisons took the award as pasta retailer of the year with the Co-op again taking the convenience category. The Co-op also won the frozen pizza convenience store section.
The awards were presented as part of the Pizza, Pasta & Italian Food Industry Awards Dinner 2010 which was held at the Lancaster London Hotel on Thursday November 11.
The awards, which were attended by 440 leading figures from across the pizza, pasta and Italian food industry, are now in their 22nd year.
Says PAPA Director Jim Winship: “These awards are well established and aim to recognise the work being done by restaurants, supermarkets and suppliers to keep raising standards. We have certainly seen a significant improvement in standards in recent years which is not only good for the industry but also for consumers.”