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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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