Catriona MacInnes

Proud to have edited the paper, proud to read it. If I have a view, it’s just mine, but it’ll be a good one!

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Can you see yourself in our highlights video? Thank you every one of you that attended and made it a night to remember 💃🕺

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Food and Drink Brand Ambassador

With a career that has taken him from London to the Arctic Circle our judges picked Will Docker of @Balgove

Will has championed local from the get go and is incredibly passionate about bringing young people into the workforce. #TheMenuAwards

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Restaurant of the Year – Sponsored by Highland Game

Winning our penultimate award of the night is celebrated seafood restaurant Little’s 🐟

Thanks to owner and chef Willie Little the team have access to exquisite fresh fish – despite being nowhere near the sea! #TheMenuAwards

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Bar of the Year – Sponsored by @coelbrew 🍷

From a legendary coaching inn during Victorian times to a cocktail bar in the 1970s to its current iteration winners The Tully by Ballintaggart impressed the judges with their attention to detail. #TheMenuAwards

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Chef of the Year – Sponsored by @itisoncom

Our 2022 award goes to The North Port chef Andrew Moss👨‍🍳

Since taking on the restaurant in 2013 Andrew has fed his passion of using the best quality ingredients by finding amazing producers and farmers in the area. #TheMenuAwards

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Street Vendor of the Year

If you have lunched in Dundee you will be sure to know our next winner The Shack Street Food🍔

Owner Gill Young has been cooking up extravagant burgers and dirty fries for over six years and still says it is the best job ever. #TheMenuAwards

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Brewer of the Year🍻

The next award of the night goes to @ovenstone109 who produce hand-crafted real ales right here in the East Neuk.
The craft brewery also serves as fantastic events venue.  #TheMenuAwards

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Producer of the Year – Sponsored by @OldCourseHotel

Clootie McToot produce dumplings to die for.

The family run business in Abernethy handcraft Scottish produce in their converted barn viewing kitchens.

Coming highly commended is @WeeCOOK_kitchen #TheMenuAwards

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Newcomer of the Year – Sponsored by @AltarGroup

The ambition of The Boar’s Head in Fife helps secure the win.

Despite the challenges of recent years the team are reviving a dilapidated coaching inn and making it one of the region’s best traditional venues. #TheMenuAwards

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Craft Distiller of the Year🍸

Our next award is presented to @PerthGin

Each of their products are distilled and bottled on-site in Perth’s first-ever distillery on the banks of the River Tay. #TheMenuAwards

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Food/Drink Visitor Destination of the Year🍽

Launched in March 2021 The Pickled Peacock is our Destination of the Year with the venue offering something for everyone, providing local artisan food and drink for the whole family to enjoy. #TheMenuAwards

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Entrepreneur of the Year

Owner of @MSCroasters Lynsey Harley takes tonight’s award☕️

After founding the company in 2015 she has seen it grow into a team of over 30 staff and has hosted the World Barista Championships since 2011. #TheMenuAwards

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Sustainability Award – Sponsored by @InvestFife ♻️

Hoping to inspire a greener future winners @green_larder offer a plastic-free shopping experience with a goal to making zero waste shopping easy and affordable while still supplying high-quality choices. #TheMenuAwards

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Community Champion🏆

Winning our public vote for Community Champion of the Year is none other than @KitschnBake who have called Newport-on-Tay home since 2014.
The whole team champion all things community, coffee and cake. #TheMenuAwards

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Independent Café of the Year

Picking up the first award of the night is none other than @fisherdonaldson who have been baking gorgeous treats for over a century🧁

Coming highly commended is Zest (St Andrews) #TheMenuAwards

[Mark Asquith @markasquith]

An incredible amount of effort by a lot of talented and hard working people has gone into this. Come take a look at what we do... https://t.co/rqRchVBaqS
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A fantastic fish course courtesy of @banks_chef consisting of Hand-dived scallop, summer berries, nasturtium and green apple🍏 #TheMenuAwards

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Following canapés created by @praveenkumar our starter of Confit chicken, smoked leek, pickled walnut and chive butter was created by @FairmontStA chef Ian Syme #TheMenuAwards

[Graham Huband @C_GHuband]

Very best of luck to all @DC_Thomson journalists taking their @NCTJ_news exams this week. Delighted we are continuing to investing in our amazing staff and demonstrating our commitment to high quality journalism. An exciting few days ahead!

[Callum Main @CallumMEdits]

Day 1 of hustings filming in Dundee

We've four sessions over the next two days hearing from candidates in the area ahead of local elections on May 5.