The East Dulwich Awards 2009 - The categories...

[Mark]

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.

If you, your boss, or someone you know would be willing to sponsor and be promoted to the 6,900 registered users of the Forum as well as the associated publicity please let us know - email awards@eastdulwichforum.co.uk or send me a Private Message.

Thanks and start thinking about who you would nominate.

Mark & Paul

[charliecharlie]

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!!!

[VeryBerryCherry]

Could we do the East Dulwich Rasberry Awards too... just to keep things nice and crisp and even.

[Keef]

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Most Child Friendly Place

So, should this be renamed "Best school"?

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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?

[SeanMacGabhann]

The Warehouse is a newcomer as well isn't it?

Green Cusine? Might scrape in under 2 years - not sure tho`

[Mark]

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.

[Keef]

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.

[Mark]

>Can you clarify if The Plough will count?

If it's nominated then it'll be counted (within reason)

[SimonM]

...Peckham Rye Park Cafe, Cafe 2050, Blackbird Bakery, Green Cuisine, Mootown...

[Ted Max]

... Sugar, JoJoMamanBebe, Oliver Bonas ...

[charliecharlie]

card shop in north cross road, opened just before christmas (mind you christmas feels like 2 years ago already!!!)

[woodie]

dream machine and the cooked food stall@ northcross market.gowlett pub.pecham rye cafe.east dulwich rox.

this forum is v good.

[Cassius]

No no no Keef - Hoopers is in Camberwell - Alan Dale told us!

(Actually Hoopers is a department store in Torquay but I don't suppose that will ever get an East Dulwich Award)

[Gimme]

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?

[Mark]

We were thinking of which place provides the "Best Customer Service Experience" but if we change it to "Best Customer Service" it'll cover all bases and remove the uncertainty. I hope that clarifies it and thanks for the comment.

[anapau]

Come on, it's stingy not to count Hoopers; technically it's out of ED but only by about three metres! (not the Torquay one, obviously)

[karter]

Mark, how about replacing best shopfront ( that sounds very cold) with Best Dressed Window Display? The likes of White stuff, the new card shop, and Mrs Robinson all have nicely dressed windows for example.

[pattherat]

Hoopers is in camberwell. It would do very well in the camberwell awards too. although i dont think the camberwell forum has as many as 6000 members

[boosboss]

Would it be beyond the realms of possibility or fairness to send the nominees a flyer to put in thier window advertising their nomination and the forum?

I did notice the EDF Awards advertised in SE22 magazine :))

[Mark]

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."

[SteveT]

I think any pub that has been used for the monthly forum drinks do, should be included.

Just my opinion.

[tommy]

Best newcomer must be the new woodcarving emporium on Bellenden Road