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    Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards 2018 Winners

    Best Kept Secret
    SeaSide Dutchie

    Best Place to Eat for Under $1,000
    Tastee

    Best Place for Vegetarian
    Stush in the Bush

    Best Watering Hole (Kingston)
    East Next Door

    Best Watering Hole (Out of Town)
    Ocean’s 11

    Red Stripe Best Community Bar
    GiGi’s HQ

    Best Place for Family Dining
    The Pelican Grill

    Best Wine Experience
    Uncorked! and Regency Bar & Lounge  

    Best Café Experience
    Café Blue, Irish Town

    Best Lunch Spot
    Seafood Market by Rainforest Seafoods

    Best Sunday Spot
    SeaSide Dutchie

    Best Restaurant For Jamaican Food
    M10

    Best Ethnic Restaurant
    Nirvanna Restaurant and Mystic Thai

    The Solomon Gardner Award for Outstanding Service         
    Sugar Mill Restaurant

    Outstanding Caterer Award
    Celeste Gordon

    Jing Shi Award for Excellence in Desserts
    Nadine Burie

    Outstanding Supermarket
    Loshusan Barbican

    Best Food Product 2018
    Banyan Foods: Jamosa

    Global Eats
    Jamaica Patty Co. (UK)

    The Firestarter Awards

    • Dennis McIntosh
    • Colin Hylton
    • Gariel Ferguson
    • Cecile Levee
    • Christopher Reckord
    • Jacqui Tyson
    • Maurine Capleton
    • Lorraine Fung
    • Jing Shi

    The Norma Shirley Award – Restaurant of the Year        
    Sugar Mill Restaurant

    Best Culinary Experience 
    Stush in the Bush and A Moveable Feast by Lisa & Chris Binns of Stush in the Bush and Christina Simonitsch of Simo’s Bread and Catering at Arcadia Greathouse

    The Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards — Enterprise Award
    Lisa and Kirk Chin 

    Best Stirring The Pot Experience 
    SeaSide Dutchie

    The 20 Year Icon Awards
    Red Stripe, the world’s coolest beer and the Tastee Patty

    Lifetime Achievement Award
    The Honourable Lascelles Chin

    Lifetime Achievement (Posthumous) Award
    Ken Loshusan

    Chairman’s Award
    Michelle Smith, Chocolate Dreams

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