By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association What do you get if you take two former fine dining chefs, a hunter, one of the UK’s most under-utilised and most environmentally friendly meats and a food truck? Answer: The winners of the Sustainability Award at the British Street Food Awards 2022, as judged by the SRA. Yes, …
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By Hayley Swanlund, Seafood Sustainability Officer, WWF-UK and Clarus Chu, Senior Policy Advisor (Production), WWF-UK The UK was once a net exporter of seafood, voyaging across oceans to catch our favourite fish such as cod. However, over the past few decades the UK has increasingly relied on seafood from overseas, becoming a net importer in …
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And the winner is…Aponiente. Congratulations to Ángel León and his team at their restaurant near Cadiz for beating off stiff competition from more than 30 of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, to win the Flor de Cana Sustainable Restaurant Award at this year’s celebration of the globe’s glitziest gastrodomes this year, hosted back in London …
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By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association After what seemed like an age, the government finally published its National Food Strategy for England. Publication has been greeted with the full range of food metaphors – none of them flattering: flat as a pancake or thin gruel. Take your pick. The strategy followed the two reports published by …
National Food Strategy: the giant omelette that breaks no eggs Read More »
Abigail Englefield, Project Manager, One Planet Plate Known as the ‘Garden of England’, Kent has an abundance of produce available on its doorstep, and Executive Chef Nuno Mendes and Head Chefs Luke Green and David Gadd’s menu at The Rose in Deal celebrates just that. They have an ever-changing menu designed to champion locally, available …
By Abi Englefield, One Planet Plate Campaign Manager Brighton is well known as a city which is sustainable and environmentally focused. As part of our One Planet Plate campaign, we sat down with the chefs from Lucky Beach and Purezza, two restaurants in the city that champion sustainability and talked to them about their One …
By Jack Clarke, Sustainable Seafood Advocate, Marine Conservation Society We carried out some research recently that showed 40% of Brits would only try new types of seafood in a restaurant. Being part of SRA’s Food Made Good network, you play a hugely important role in encouraging diners to eat planet-friendly options that they might not …
By Tom Tanner, Sustainable Restaurant Association Having worked with The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, judging their Sustainable Restaurant Award for almost a decade now, means we’ve seen the engagement with sustainability issues accelerate and deepen across the planet. Receiving submissions from restaurants in territories new to us that demonstrate new levels of commitment and creativity …
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By Abigail Englefield, One Planet Plate Project Manager Now, more than ever what we eat and where we get our food matters. Whether we are reducing our carbon footprint, protecting depleted fish stocks, supporting local businesses or eating seasonal produce or clamping down on food waste. Food presents us with multiple ways to make a …
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By Tom Tanner We were thrilled when San Pellegrino approached us back in 2019 to help them create a new award. For the 2019 edition, they appointed us as the sustainability partner for its Young Chefs programme and asked us to create a new Social Responsibility category. The award sits alongside the programme’s other awards, raises …
Spirit of sustainability shines through in San Pellegrino Young Chefs Read More »
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