99 Station Street

The kind people at Taste of Staffordshire awarded us with another two certificates (ooooohh and a decanter and a bottle of fizzy stuff) last night at the presentation evening. We were warned that we had been short listed but beyond that knew nothing else.

Out of the hat came the 2nd place in Brasserie of the year, which we had attained for the 3rd year in a row. The competition was much harder this year as they had introduced an accreditation scheme to get into their guide, which gave zero cost entry into the awards. This meant many other venues entering the fray. We got beaten by another place, the Three Horseshoes, a brasserie in the Staffordshire Moorlands, who had beaten us two years prior.

Next came a 1st in the NFU Local Food Champion Award. This was great news as it put a tick against our commitment to buy from enthusiastic local suppliers. We have always believed that when you know the product and the person behind it, you will have a consistent ingredient and a strong relationship with the supplier. So it was almost a mirror, the National Farmers Union giving us an award.