The shortlist of olive magazine Chef awards 2018 has been announced. This year, instead of focusing on ‘celebrity chefs’ and ‘TV cooks’, olive magazine asked the public to nominate the chefs who they thought deserved to be on the shortlist across its seven categories: Sustainable star, Best street-food chef, Veggie pioneer, Best pastry chef or baker, Community champion, Small but mighty and the Dark Horse Wine award, which celebrated the most innovative chefs in the country.
The public has chosen and the shortlist is as it follows:
Sustainable star
- Brad Carter, Carters of Moseley – Moseley, Birmingham
- Douglas McMaster, Silo and Cub – Brighton and London
- Merlin Labron-Johnson, Portland – London
- Sat Bains, Restaurant Sat Bains – Nottingham
- Ellis Barrie, Marram Grass – Anglesey, Wales
Best street-food chef
- Terri Mercieca, Happy Endings – London
- Meriel Armitage, Club Mexicana – London
- Pete Hewitt, Homeboys – Nottingham
- Nick Archer, The Shellfish Pig – Cornwall and Devon
Veggie pioneer
- Rob Howell, Root – Bristol
- Kirk Haworth, Plates – London
- Chantelle Nicholson, Tredwells – London
- Richard Buckley, Acorn Vegetarian Kitchen – Bath
Best pastry chef or baker
- Florin Grama, Pophams – London
- Calum Franklin, Holborn Dining Room – London
- Ben Glazer, Coombeshead Farm – Cornwall
- Sarah Lemanski, Noisette Bakehouse – Leeds
Small but mighty
- Romy Gill, Romy’s Kitchen – Thornbury, Gloucestershire
- Bruce Rennie, The Shore – Penzance, Cornwall
- Ben Harmer, Penrose Kitchen – Truro, Cornwall
- Mandy Yin, Sambal Shiok – London
- James Cross, Lake Road Kitchen – Lake District
Community champion
- Ellis Barrie, Marram Grass – Anglesey, Wales
- Asma Khan, Darjeeling Express – London
- Tom Brown, Cornerstone – London
- Ben Quinn, Canteen – Cornwall
- Tony Evans, Can Cook – Liverpool and Merseyside
Dark Horse Wine award
- Jeremy Chan, Ikoyi – London
- Sam Buckley, Where the Light Gets In – Stockport
- Luke French, Jöro – Sheffield
- Michael Carr, Restaurant 92 – Harrogate
A panel of expert judges will now choose the winners for each categories, who will be announced in September on olivemagazine.com, with the winning chefs being featured in October 2018 issue.
