Game for an Award?
Ottery St Mary’s Rusty Pig has been nominated in the inaugural national Eat Game Awards 2018.
The aim of these new awards is to help raise the profile of game in the British menu and bring it to the attention of British restaurant goers.
Rusty Pig has long used game as a key ingredient in its dishes, particularly wild boar from Escot Estate, pheasant from the Upton Pyne shoot and locally caught pigeon and rabbit. The restaurant works closely with Tim Maddams, author of River Cottage Handbook No 15, Game.
Restaurant owner Robin Rea and head chef Mark Russell are big fans of game; earlier this year they held a ‘Feather and Fur’ evening to celebrate the last weekend of the shooting season and created a ‘limited edition’ pheasant salami for the Rusty Pig Charcuterie range.
Robin said: “We are really pleased to be nominated in these new awards, which encourage the field to fork ethos that we have been promoting since the restaurant opened.
“Game is plentiful in our region and there’s nothing better than a seasonal meal using locally sourced ingredients.”
The next stage of the awards will be a public vote, which opens on August 12. The awards will be held at Boisdale Canary Wharf, renowned leaders in presenting game to their customers.
