Celebrating Ireland’s gold standard champions of the food and hospitality industries, the winners of the Georgina Campbell Food & Hospitality Awards 2025 were announced at a gala lunch at the InterContinental Dublin Hotel last week, with seven of the top awards going back to Cork.
Ireland’s longest running food and hospitality awards, the annual Georgina Campbell Irish Food & Hospitality Awards were established by the well known food writer in the 1990s, with the aim of giving recognition where it is deserved across a broad range of destinations and lead customers – both Irish and visitors – to genuinely hospitable experiences where they will enjoy great food that ‘speaks of the real Ireland’.
Awards that made their way back to Cork, were: Best Dairy Producer 2025 – Gloun Cross Dairy, Dunmanway, Co. Cork; Seafood Chef of the Year 2025 – Seachurch and Salty Dog, Ballycotton; Global Cuisines Award 2025 – Izz Café, George’s Quay Cork; Casual Dining – Restaurant and Bar 2025 – Jacob’s Bar, Baltimore, Co. Cork; Host of The Year 2025 – Fern Allen, Ballymaloe House; Best Brunch – Greenwich, Cork city; and Food Tourism Experience, Long Haul Hero’ Award – Mary Ann’s Bar & Restaurant, Castletownshend, Co. Cork.
Other winners on the night, saw the ‘Movers & Shakers’ Award 2025 awarded to Eunice Power, AndChips, Dungarvan, Co Waterford. Best Supporter of Irish Food & Drink Producers in 2025 were Grow HQ Café and Larder, Waterford.
In the Irish Breakfast Awards, there was success for both the Granville Hotel, Waterford as winner, with The Mustard Seed, Ballingarry, Co Limerick taking the award for Irish Bread Award.
Unlike some commercially-led awards schemes, businesses cannot enter themselves for these awards, which are based solely on independent all-year assessments by a team of experts, who book anonymously and pay their bills like any other guest.
