2010 Feb 11 Voting Open in The Beijinger’s Annual Restaurant Awards!!
Voting is underway in The Beijinger’s 7th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards – now it’s your turn to dish it out!
Sanlitun’s Mosto and the mighty French Maison Boulud are the top nominees in Beijing’s longest-running restaurant survey, each garnering 9 nods – with both going head-to-head in competition for Restaurant of the Year, Best Service, Best Décor and Best Chef.
Others with multiple nominations include Da Dong Roast Duck (7 nominations); Capital M, Chef Too and SALT (6 each); Duck de Chine (5); and Bei, Element Fresh Made in China, Sureno, and W Dine and Wine (4 each).
Balloting is open now through March 9 and can be accessed here.
A record 191 Beijing restaurants were nominated in 35 categories. The nominees were selected by a panel of 200 Beijing residents, including food experts, long-term residents, and randomly selected voters from past surveys. Each nominator was given a blank ballot and asked to choose their favorites in over 60 categories. Their picks were then distilled, the 35 most compelling and competitive categories were selected and the top 8 nominees in each category were placed on the ballot.
New categories this year include Best Contemporary Chinese, Best Chef, Best Kung Pao Chicken, Best Mediterranean and Best Tapas.
The Beijinger annual awards are widely recognized as the most comprehensive and legitimate in the city. Over 4,600 votes were cast last year and expectations are high that this year could exceed the 5,000 mark.
Click here for a quick look at last year’s results.
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Re: Voting Open in The Beijinger’s Annual Restaurant ...
Just voted, and would like to point out a slight discrepancy:
the first Q is for best Contemporary Chinese -- one of the choices is Bei, at the Opposite House.
the last Q of the survey is for Restaurant of the Year (non-Chinese) -- one of the choices is Bei, at the Opposite House.
What's the deal?
admin
Re: Voting Open in The Beijinger’s Annual Restaurant ...
We noticed this seeming inconsistency as well -- but upon closer examination, it does make sense.
Bei is one of those restaurants that doesn't easily fall into a category, as it servs pan-Asian cuisine, including Chinese cuisine.
Secondly, our awards ballot is made by a panel of 200 nominators, and our philosophy is to respect the nominators' choices, unless of course a place that made the ballot has recently closed.
The nomination panel sawit fit to name Bei to both Contemporary Chinese and Restaurant of the Year (Non-Chinese) ... so we let it stand.
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