Nominate Your 2020 Restaurant of the Year
It’s hard to believe another year has rolled by and we’re now in the 6th year of our annual Eat.Drink.Lagos Restaurant of the year award. It’s also hard to believe we have spent the better part of 2020 indoors and not at restaurants, events, weddings, on the beach, in traffic and other places we Lagosians often find ourselves.
If you’ve listened to any episode of our podcast, you’ve learnt how restaurants like RSVP, HSE, and La Taverna have had to adjust to the harsh realities of the pandemic on their businesses.
On our team, our biggest fear for the industry was whether some restaurants may not survive this period and not have to close down. Unfortunately, some restaurants have closed permanently but the majority seem to be surviving and some even thriving. Overall, this period has really been humbling to many establishments (Eko Hotel offered delivery and laundry FFS), but the hospitality industry in Nigeria has shown its resilience and adaptability throughout this period (no thanks to our government if we’re keeping it buck).
We’re hopeful for 2021 and with that brief spiel we’re excited to open nominations for the 2020 Eat.Drink.Lagos Restaurant of the Year.
Since 2016, this prestigious award (I say this every year) has been given to the best restaurant in Lagos as voted by our readers. In 2015, Nosa and I went out on a whim and announced the restaurant of the year as RSVP, let’s just say we weren’t into democracy yet but we’ve changed now. Here are all the winners since that time.
2015 - RSVP
2016 - Craft Gourmet
2017 - Nok by Alara
2018 - RSVP
2019 - HSE
In previous years, only restaurants with a physical location have been eligible, however, given the “delivery” nature of this year we have decided to give the award in two categories this year.
Restaurant of the year for a brick and mortar restaurant
Restaurant of the year for a restaurant/food delivery without a physical location
KEY DATES
Nominations will be open for 14 days until December 16, 2020, at noon (WAT).
Eat.Drink.Lagos will share the top five restaurants with the highest number of nominations on December 18, 2020.
The public will then vote for the 2020 Eat.Drink.Lagos Restaurant of the Year from the five (5) restaurants with the most amount of nominations in each category
Voting will be available from December 18, 2020, until December 30, 2020, at noon (WAT) when voting will close.
The 2020 Eat.Drink.Lagos Restaurant of the Year will be announced on 31 December 2020.
Nominations and voting will be done online via the link provided by Eat.Drink.Lagos