The Restaurant Association is proud to announce the Wellington 'Felix Hospitality Awards' are back and better than ever for 2016.....
Sunday 23rd October 2016
St James Theatre, Wellington
5.30pm - Midnight
TICKETS
Association Members Price: $65.00 incl GST
Non Members Price: $70.00 incl GST
EVENT TIMELINE
Tickets on Sale: Monday 29th August
Nominations Open: Monday 10am, 29th August
Nominations Close: Sunday 5pm, 18th September
Finalist Launch: Monday 4pm, 19th September
Finalists Announced and Voting Commences: Wednesday 10am, 21st September
Finalist Voting Closes: Wednesday 5pm, 12th October
Event of the Year: 23rd October 2016
AWARD CATEGORIES
Outstanding Café
Outstanding Barista
Outstanding Bar Experience
Outstanding Bartender
Outstanding Waitperson
Outstanding Maitre d'/FOH Manager
Outstanding Chef
Emerging Talent - FOH
Up & Coming Talent - Kitchen
Outstanding Sales Representative
Outstanding Supplier
Outstanding 'Cheap Eats'
Outstanding Suburban/Regional Experience
Outstanding Restaurant
Outstanding Hospitality Professional
ABOUT
Way back in the late 1990s, a group of Wellington’s hospitality elite wanted to celebrate all that was good about our industry, and recognise excellence among their hard-working peers. They decided to hold an outstanding awards ceremony and a spectacularly great party.
They named them the Felix Awards in honour of Dean Felix Dunlop, a pioneer of pizza, white tablecloths and brunch, and one of the visionaries behind the wonderful Brasserie Flipp.
The Felix Awards, the first of New Zealand’s peer-voted hospitality awards, ran for a number of years and is the benchmark for the industry. After a brief hiatus, and under a new committee, the Felix Awards morphed into the Capital Awards, once again paying homage to all that was excellent in Wellington’s hospitality scene.
In 2016, after a couple of years of abeyance, we are rekindling this celebration of the capital’s culinary prowess and greater Wellington’s great venues and people. We’re also bringing back the Felix name.
While some of you may be too young to remember the Felix Awards of old, we think it’s fitting to have a link with the past while we look to the future, and celebrate the present.
