The Mulberry Restaurant Falmouth is one of the big winners in this year's Muddy Stilettos Awards.
Now in their 11th year, the hotly contested 2024 Muddy Stilettos Regional Awards have been announced with 21 brilliant local indie businesses winning the coveted lifestyle crowns across Cornwall.
The Mulberry an underground fine-dining restaurant on Falmouth's High Street, was opened by chefs Jay Brady and Harry Cartwright two years ago was recently added to the Michelin guide.
Sponsored nationally by Tide banking, readers of the award-winning lifestyle website Muddy Stilettos have been nominating and voting in their hundreds of thousands for their favourite independent businesses across 21 different lifestyle categories – from Best Destination Pub to Yoga/Pilates Studio, Boutique Stay to Local Food/Drink producer – and shining a light on the most creative, unique indie businesses across the counties.
Reaching over 10 million people nationally in eight weeks, over 515,000 votes and nominations were cast nationwide, making it the most popular Muddy Awards to date.
Free to enter from start to finish, all the winners of the Cornwall Awards have been announced today on https://cornwall.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/winners/.
The list of Cornwall’s Winners are as follows:
North Cornwall
BAR Plonk'd (Wadebridge)
CHILDREN’S BUSINESS Cornwall Childcare (St Breward, Bodmin)
FAMILY ATTRACTION The National Lobster Hatchery (Padstow)
FARM SHOP / DELI Boscastle Farm Shop (Boscastle)
FLORIST Jane Lawrence Flowers (Rock)
Truro & Falmouth
EVENT VENUE The Barn at Pengelly (Trispen, Truro)
HAIR SALON Marzipan Hair (Truro)
WINE & BEER SPECIALIST Red Elephant Beer Cellar (Truro)
RESTAURANT The Mulberry (Falmouth)
Newquay/Perranporth
BEAUTY SALON / CLINIC Beautique (Newquay)
BOUTIQUE STAY Winnow, Beach Retreats (Watergate Bay, Newquay)
CAFÉ Shiva (Nansledan, Newquay)
CASUAL DINING Summer House (Perranporth)
DESTINATION PUB The Plume of Feathers (Mitchell)
WOMEN’S FASHION / ACCESSORIES Love of Lemons Vintage (Nansledan, Newquay)
YOGA / PILATES STUDIO Oceanflow Yoga (Newquay) St Ives
ARTS, CULTURE & THEATRE VENUE Penwith Gallery (St Ives)
FITNESS INSTRUCTOR Jen Matthews, Be Fit Cornwall (St Ives)
HOTEL Carbis Bay Hotel & Estate (Carbis Bay, St Ives)
LIFESTYLE STORE Just Lily, St Ives (St Ives) South Cornwall
LOCAL FOOD / DRINK PRODUCER Sarah's Cake Shop (Looe)
All regional winners in Cornwall, along with winners from the other Muddy counties, will automatically go through to the 2024 National Awards and five businesses in each category will be picked by the Muddy Stilettos Editors to go through to the National Finals, with the ‘Best of the Best’ Winners crowned in July 2024.
Generating a great sense of community spirit, the Muddy Stilettos Awards are a great way for locals to say ‘thank you’ to their most loved indie shops, and for independent businesses to use the accolade of a Muddy Award to grow their businesses further.
Hero Brown, founder and Editor-in-chief of Muddy Stilettos says: “I set up these awards 11 years ago to give local lifestyle indies a chance to shine. It’s been an honour to showcase these most creative, innovative lifestyle businesses across Cornwall, sponsored by Tide banking nationally. The response to this year’s Muddy Awards has been incredible with thousands voting to support an amazing array of local businesses big and small.”
The full list of Muddy Awards 2024 Winners across all 28 counties nationally is available at https://muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/counties/
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