The 2024 Hero & Icon Awards
Revealed: The shortlists for the 2024 Hero & Icon Awards
The front-runners for this year’s Peach 20/20 Hero & Icon Awards have been announced. The annual awards, now in their 20th year, celebrate the very best brands, businesses and leaders in the eating and drinking-out market.
The winners will be revealed at the Hero & Icon Awards presentation dinner following the Peach 20/20 Leaders’ Summit on Monday 18 November - this year at a new venue, Convene Sancroft in the City of London.
Here are your 2024 shortlists...
Newcomer
Boojum / Diecast / Faber / Forza Wine / Jones The Grocer / Orleans Smokehouse / Pasta Evangelists / Permit Room
Emerging Brand
Brother Marcus / Buns from Home / Chopstix / Fatto a Mano / Lina Stores / Madre / Roti King / WatchHouse
Best Opening
Albert's Schloss, London / Boxpark, Liverpool / Caravan, Manchester / Carlotta, Marylebone High St / Dishoom, Battersea / Pizza Pilgrims, Euston / Roe, Wood Wharf / The Devonshire, Soho
Pub Business
Anglian Country Inns / Brunning & Price / Fullers / Heartwood Inns / JD Wetherspoon / Liberation Group / Urban Pubs & Bars / Youngs
Bar Business
Albert's Schloss / Arc Inspirations / BrewDog / Drake & Morgan / ETM / Inception / Incipio / The Alchemist
Restaurant Business
Big Mamma Group / Caravan / Dishoom / Flat Iron / Hawksmoor / Ivy Collection / JKS Restaurants / Pizza Pilgrims
Coffee/Bakery/QSR Business
Buns from Home / Farmer J / Gail's / Greggs / Ole & Steen / Popeyes / WatchHouse / Wingstop
Experiential Business
BoxPark / Electric Shuffle / F1 Arcade / Fairgame / Flight Club / Lucky Voice / Mercato Metropolitano / Piano Works
International Business
Chotto Matte / JKS Restaurants / Hawksmoor / German Doner Kebab / San Carlo / Sticks’n’Sushi / WatchHouse / Wingstop
Industry Leader
Nick Collins, Loungers / Roisin Currie, Greggs / Simon Dodd, Youngs / Laura Harper-Hinton, Caravan / Alasdair Murdoch, Burger King UK / James Nye, Anglian Country Inns / Marta Pogroszewska, Gail’s / Shereen Ritchie, Buns From Home
The 10 shortlists published here feature 80 nominations, highlighting the creativity, commitment and innovation that continues to drive the UK’s restaurant, pub, bar, QSR and café sector. These categories were all voted for by Peach 20/20’s community of senior industry executives, entrepreneurs and influencers.
The shortlists for the final five further categories - Sustainability Champion, EDI Champion, Growth Champion, Power Brand and Consumer Choice - will be announced shortly. The two consumer awards - Power Brand and Consumer Choice - are compiled from guest ratings measured by CGA by NIQ’s BrandTrack survey.
Peach 20/20 Hero & Icon Awards Headline Partners
- Jane O’Riordan (Caravan, Red Engine & Turtle Bay)
- Will Beckett (Hawksmoor)
- Huw Gott (Hawksmoor)
- Roy Ellis (Mission Mars)
- Neil Macleod (Mission Mars)
- Tim Bacon (Living Ventures)
- John Barnes (La Tasca, Novus)
- Andy Bassadone (Strada, Côte, Bill’s)
- Peter Boizot (Pizza Express)
- Rupert & Jo Clevely (Geronimo, Hippo)
- Tony Hughes (Whitbread, Mitchells & Butlers)
- Gerry Ford (Caffè Nero)
- John Hutson (JD Wetherspoon)
- Bob Ivell (Whitbread, Scottish & Newcastle, Mitchells & Butlers)
- Alan Jackson (Whitbread, The Restaurant Group)
- Karen Jones (Cafe Rouge, Spirit, Food & Fuel, Hawksmoor)
- Phillip Kaye (ASK, Zizzi)
- Jeremy King (Corbin & King)
- Simon Kossoff (Carluccio’s)
- Tim Martin (JD Wetherspoon)
- Julian Metcalfe (Pret a Manger)
- James Horler (La Tasca, 360 Restaurants)
- Chris Corbin (Corbin & King)
- Thomasina Miers (Wahaca)
- Ian Neill (Wagamama, Las Iguanas)
- Kate Nicholls (UK Hospitality)
- David Page (Pizza Express, Fulham Shore)
- Ian Payne (Stonegate)
- Steve Richards (Novus, Casual Dining Group)
- Robin Rowland (YO! Sushi)
- Mike Tye (Whitbread, Spirit)
- Danny Meyer (Union Square Hospitality)
- Karen Forrester (TGI Friday’s)
- Jane Holbrook (Cote)
- Mark Derry (Heartwood Collection)
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