Local sourcing

Ethos of constant improvement fires Toyo Eatery to Asia’s 50 Best success

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association Chefs and restaurants the world over, especially those high profile ones with a platform to influence, have a hugely important role to play in the future of food and, by extension, the future of our planet. That’s why we so cherish our relationship with The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, …

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Taiwanese restaurants ready to serve Food Made Good

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association Taiwan this week became the latest territory in which the SRA has formed a strategic partnership to extend the reach of our Food Made Good programme. Specifically, our Managing Director Juliane Caillouette-Noble visited Taipei where she met with Chia-Ying Ho, Co-Founder of Green Dining Guide (GDG) and signed an …

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“Food Made Good – transferrable, accessible and easy to understand”

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association We recently agreed a strategic partnership with Sustainability Consultant Keary Shandler and Restaurateur Omar Shihab to make Food Made Good available to all restaurants in the UAE. There are more than 13,000 restaurants in Dubai, more per capita than London and New York City. We interviewed Keary and Omar …

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Come the agricultural revolution, whose side will you be on?

By Louisa Dodd, Senior Project Manager, Sustainable Restaurant Association “We need a pretty spectacular agricultural revolution” prescribed Iain Holhurst, organic vegetable farmer forerunner at the closing of the 2023 Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) last week.  I attended the ORFC in the hope of hearing practical ways to bring about that revolution, in which farmers …

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Pioneers of Hong Kong hospitality reap rewards

By Belinda Ng, Food Made Good Hong Kong An environmentally friendly ‘coffee laundry’ and a food hall on a mission to remove all single-use packaging were among the winners at the third Food Made Good Hong Kong Awards. The ten award categories at the event to celebrate the most outstanding efforts and best practices of …

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Celebration of native produce sees Guatemala restaurant to award success

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association The clue is in the name. The winner of the Sustainable Restaurant Award at Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by Flor de Caña, is all about the provenance. For those non-Spanish speakers, Diacá, literally means, from here. And at this pioneering Guatemalan restaurant, where the ingredients come from, …

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Crusty craftsmen create award-winning base for future toppings

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association There’s a perception that the bigger a restaurant business grows, the harder it becomes to retain, let alone expand upon, its principles. This year’s winner of the R200 Sustainable Restaurant Group of the Year, sponsored by Victoria Malaga (which we had the great pleasure of judging again), has shown …

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Outgoing award-winning pub owner reveals secrets of 78% margins and success

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association Almost exactly three years on from lifting the coveted Sustainable Business of the Year Award at the 2019 Food Made Good Awards, Ollie and Lauren Hunter are leaving The Wheatsheaf Chilton Foliat as a thriving village pub – transformed from when they took it on in 2015. Ollie took …

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Give your team freedom to make things Peachy

By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association In March, we had the pleasure of judging the sustainability category at the Publican Awards. On the shortlist, Revolution Bar Group and the Peach Pub Company. To be fair, the latter were very worthy winners. Perhaps it was a slight case of sustainability envy that drove Revolution to purchase …

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Croydon Jamaican restaurant relishes its place at heart of community

By Winnie Adeyemi, Director, AFRICA: Seen & Heard The theme for Black History Month 2022 is ‘Time for Change: Action Not Words’. Great Britain’s foodservice providers of African descent come from a diversity of nations and cultures. They include restaurateurs, caterers and street food sellers who provide diners and customers with cuisine offering tastes of …

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