Elm Tree’s three-in-a-row!
From left: Unilever Food Solutions’ Business Development Chef Mark McCarthy presents the Pub Carvery of the Year award to Rory O’Connell of The Elm Tree, Cork, as the provincial and overall winner, with Sean O'Brien, Leinster and Ireland rugby player standing in for Pub Carvery Ambassador Tommy Bowe.
The Elm Tree in Glouthane, County Cork, did it again at the Great Carvery Awards last night when it walked away with the top award as National Great Carvery Pub of the Year for the third year in a row.
Print18 September 2013
The win was announced to the astonishment, disbelief and obvious delight of The Elm Tree’s Rory O’Connell who told me that he really didn’t think they’d win it a third time at the Unilever Food Solutions event.
Derek & Lorraine Walshe employ over 50 full-time staff at the multi-award-winning family-run pub which can expect quite a fillip in numbers booking in for lunch of a Sunday afternoo as a result of the hatrick.
The Carvery Hotel of the Year went to Harvey’s Point Hotel in Co Donegal, winning the award for the second year in a row to the delight of Deirdre McGlone, co-proprietor of the hotel which is set in an idyllic location on the banks of Lough Eske, the only hotel to be included the top 25 in Europe in the 2013 TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice awards.
Both winners receive marketing support to the value of €2,500 each as well as a specially-commissioned wall plaque and commemorative chalkboard.
This is the fourth year of the Great Carvery Competition, the only island of Ireland-wide competition of its kind, said Unilever Food Solutions’ Business Development Chef and Head Judge Mark McCarthy.
Text voting also played a big part in the competition which saw the 48 short-listed competitors brought down to just 24 finalists. Of these eight provincial winners emerged (one hotel and one pub from each province) producing two overall winners.
The eight finalists comprised: Ulster – Harvey’s Point Hotel, Co Donegal & The Stables Bar and Restaurant, Antrim; Connacht – The Galway Bay Hotel, Galway & The Merry Monk, Co Mayo; Munster – Dan Buckley’s Bar at the Castle Hotel, Co Cork & The Elm Tree, Co Cork; Leinster – The Ashbourne House Hotel, Co Meath & An Poitin Stil, Co Dublin.
The awards were held in the Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge in Dublin.
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