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After many hours of careful consideration the categories for the East Dulwich Awards 2009 have been chosen and they are (in no particular order):


Best Coffee

Best Food Shop

Best Shop

Best Shop Front

Most Child Friendly Place

Best Bar

Best Sunday Lunch

Best Curry

Best newcomer (in the last 2 years)

Best Restaurant

Favourite forum person

Best Customer Service Experience

and

The Best in East Dulwich (overall winner from the above categories, rather like Best in Show)

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You can start nominating your choices in a few weeks, we'll post further details on here and we'll also send out emails as reminders.


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Thanks and start thinking about who you would nominate.


Mark & Paul

greta idea,


hhhmmmm i will have to start thinking... also much careful consideration into what I mean by 'best' ie if nomination for restaurant,

value for money,

food,

service,

atmosphere,

people,

owner,

interior,

best credit crunch offer... etc


wonder what we all mean by 'best'... will be interested to find out!!!

Most Child Friendly Place


So, should this be renamed "Best school"?


Best newcomer (in the last 2 years)


Can anyone maybe come up with a list of newcomers within the last 2 years? I can think of The Magnolia, The "new" Plough (not sure if that will count, but it is basically as different from the old plough as the magnolia is from the magdalla, or even more so), Locale, +venture, White Stuff...


I can't really think of any others, The Black Cherry, Licorice, and Green & Blue are all over 2 years aren't they?

Seriously Keef? Off the top of my head... ED Warehouse, Green Cuisine, Foxtons, Dream Machine, Hoopers, the new curry place, Lucas bakery, Mrs Robinson boutique, The Lodge, Davina shoes, Magnolia, Locale, Balfes Bikes, ESPH, Franklins Deli (at least I think they're newcomers but I can check). There's bound to be more but of course if you don't have a favourite newcomer then don't nominate one when the time comes.

I never siad I didn't want to play, I just couldn't think of lots off the top of my head. I've never heard of a couple of those, and was sure places like Mrs Robinson boutique had been there longer, and Hoopers is in Peckham, but that has been discussed.


Can't believe I didn't think of Dream Machine though.


Can you clarify if The Plough will count? Completely redecorated, and new owners, feels as much like a "new" pub as the mag does... That said, if it was included I'd be torn between the two.

Great categories.


Me and the missus have had a shot at picking ours. One thing that did come out of that was that we had differing views on what was the intended answer for Best Customer Service Experience - was it to be a particular shop / bar / person or was it a specific experience at a specific time when someone in one of these places did something superlative in the field of customer service (e.g. the missus remembers someone on a stall in NCR nattering to her mother for 15 mins once)?

If too many people interpreted it as the latter, we thought that it would be difficult to pick a winner.


Do we need clarification on that one?

Hi Karter, we did think about "Best Dressed Window Display" but not all shops have a dressed window display (but they all have a front), "Best Shop Front" gives more shops the opportunity to be included in the awards.


And yes bossboss, we're aiming to get flyers/posters out to the nominees where possible, raising sponsorship will help us achieve this and make as many people aware if it as possible.


And re: Hoopers, as mentioned in the original thread about the awards, "the border will be SE22/East Dulwich, we have to draw a line somewhere and the SE22 border seems like the most obvious way to do it ... but we would consider moving it based on nominations received."

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