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Stokes Croft restaurant wins prestigious national award
A Bristol restaurant and bar has scooped the top gong at the Food Made Good Awards 2018 from the Sustainable Restaurant Association.
At the awards ceremony on Monday evening, Poco joined other winners including a pizzeria using aluminium take-out boxes, a beach restaurant leading a community-wide single-use plastic purge and one of the UK’s largest pub chains going to war on food food waste.
Poco, on the corner of Jamaica Street and Stokes Croft, was named Food Made Good business of the year due to it excelling across the award categories, repeating its success of 2016.
Brunch at Poco
Judges said that “the connection between farm and fork grows ever closer, ways of keeping food on the plate and out of the bin are increasingly ingenious, and the menu’s celebration of veg and better meat continues apace”.
Two-thirds of Poco’s dishes feature vegetables, while the meaty dishes feature less intensive species and cuts like muntjac deer and pig’s head terrine.
Judges added: “There’s no such thing as waste in the Poco kitchen. If the kitchen has made full use of an ingredient then it’s passed to the bar, and vice versa.
“From fruit peels to pea skins, jams, juices, infusions and purees mean practically nothing ends up in the compost bin. Even the best in the business know there’s more to do though.
“When the team conducted a thorough review of everything they purchase, they discovered only two apparently unrecyclable items – sponges and pens. A home has been found for the old pens – sponges remain a challenge!”
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