Bev-E Award Winners 2007
The BEV-E Award Ceremony 2007 was held at the industry dinner at BEV-X on
16th October hosted by Paul Miekle-Janney and Ranald Paterson. All
finalists were invited to a pre-dinner reception where celebration glasses
of champagne got the evening off to a good start.
All of the regional winners were introduced with a short presentation on their
business and they were then presented with their Award for winning their region,
an inscribed plate produced by Simon Martin of Quickfire Tableware,
the originator of the BEV-E Awards idea.
A new Award for Best Mobile Coffee Cart was then awarded
to Ian Holmes of Café 2 U in Leeds. His franchisor, Alex
Dawson, also present, had had several franchises entered into the
competition, was naturally delighted.
The award for BEV-E Winner 2007 was then announced by Ranald who had carried
out the last round of Regional and Final judging. In announcing that
for the first time there was a joint winner, he said that The Bottle
Kiln and Sadliers Coffee Lounge were so close in
scores, even though their businesses are fundamentally different, they couldn’t
be separated and therefore they were both declared winners. Maxine
Sadlier accepted the award on behalf of Sadliers, and Maxine
Beadsmore and Joy Bostock accepted on behalf of The Bottle
Kiln.
Sadliers Coffee Lounge, owned and run by Maxine Sadlier, is a small coffee
shop in Tettenshall, Wolverhampton and has been open for just two years. All
of their food is home made and all coffees are hand-crafted by Paul Sadlier.
The Bottle Kiln, a family business run by Becky Stone, has been open for 20
years, and includes the café, an art gallery, Japanese garden and gift
shops all built around the old bottle kiln.
Both of these establishments are well worth a visit for anyone either in Wolverhampton
or Derbyshire.
Past winners of the BEV-E Award are Leoni The Coffee House in Malton, Lakeside
Café in Leeds and The Coach House in Skipton, which means that including
Café 4 U, Yorkshire has a winner in every year of the awards!
2007 Finalists
MIDLANDS REGIONAL FINALISTS
The Bottle-Kiln Café JOINT NATIONAL WINNER
West Hallam
Derbyshire
DE7 6HP
Tel: 0115 932 9442
Sadliers Coffee Lounge JOINT NATIONAL WINNER
The Arcade
Tettenhall
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV6 8QS
Tel: 01902 745 222
NORTH REGIONAL FINALISTS
Gillian Bolam
Willi’s Café
23 Clayton Road
Jesmond
Newcastle
SOUTH EAST REGIONAL WINNER
Esquires Coffee House
53 Commercial Way
Wolsey Place Shopping Centre
Woking
Surrey
GU21 1HN
Tel: 01483 766 337
SOUTH-WEST WINNER
Coffee #1 Ltd
1-2 Beaufort Square
Chepstow
NP16 5DF
Tel: 01291 628 795
COFFEE CART SPECIAL AWARD
Ian Holmes
Café 2 U
Granary Wharf & Holbeck
