Best afternoon tea

Hazelmere Cafe and Bakery, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria (01539 532972; www.hazelmerecafe.co.uk)

For over 20 years, owners Dorothy and Ian Stubley have been making their own cakes from locally produced ingredients and serving them in a tea room that overlooks Morecambe Bay. This, and the fact that they source more than 20 teas directly from the growers, making regular trips to find new and exciting blends, led earlier in the year to it scooping the Tea Guild's award for Best Afternoon Tea.

Runners up: Other cafes that embody a love of dairy products and fine china include Bird on the Rocks Tearoom, Shropshire (01588 660631) decorated with props from British TV's finer costume dramas, and the riverside Lock House Tea Rooms (0115 972 2288) Nottinghamshire, renowned for its prawn tea.

Best farm shop

Pink Pig Organic Farm, Holme, North Lincolnshire (01724 844466; www.pinkpigorganics.co.uk)

TV programmes such as Jimmy's Farm, and the growing trend for local and organic produce mean it has never been sexier to nip out for some sausages and eggs from your nearest farm shop, and there are now an estimated 4,000 throughout the country. The Pink Pig Organic Farm restaurant and shop was set up four years ago by farmers Andrew and Sally Jackson to sell their own organic pork, eggs, vegetables and chickens, and is Soil Association approved.

The farm shop stocks their home-cured bacon, their Great Taste Award winning rustic Lincolnshire sausages and cheese, jam, ice cream and chutney from other local farmers. It won the Best UK Farm Retailer Award at this year's annual awards held by Farma, the national co-operative of farmers, producers selling locally, and farmers' markets organisers.

Runners up: Other favourites included Darts Farm Village, Topsham, Devon, a large visitors' attraction with a huge range of produce in its food hall, a deli bar, cider works and ale house (01392 878200; www.dartsfarm.co.uk). Also Farndon Fields in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, which began nine years ago as a garage attached to a house, and is now a vast complex (01858 464838).

Best pub

The Swan, Little Totham, Essex (01621 892689; www.theswanpublichouse.co.uk )

Real ale types will find much to love about The Swan (including the house rules that forbid swearing, singlets and caps put on backwards). It has an open fire in winter and a large garden for summer, plus darts and billiards, self-effacing food (ploughmans and sandwiches) in a weather-boarded, wisteria-clad and unashamedly beer-centric village pub. Guest ales include the local Totham Parva, Oscar Wilde and Maldon Gold, which is why the Swan was voted pub of the year by Camra (Campaign for Real Ale) last month.

Runners up: The Check Inn (01793 845584; www.checkinn.co.uk) in Wiltshire has cribbage, charity events and plans for a brewery; the Old Coach House (01636 813289) in Southwell in the East Midlands offers cider in the summer, three fires and a natural cellar, while the Robin Hood Inn, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear (0191 428 5454) is a great brewpub that opened in 2002.

Best ice cream

Frederick's of Chesterfield (01246 275293; www.fredericksicecreams.co.uk)

Voted current Champion of Champions by the Ice Cream Alliance, and famous throughout the Peak District for, in particular, its 1898 vanilla, still made to the original recipe. Available from its factory in Chesterfield, where Willy Wonka-style tours are available on Saturdays, or via its fleet of vintage vans, the company is setting up its first gelateria in Bakewell in Derbyshire. From August, it will serve a variety of flavours including Bakewell Pudding.

Runners up: Minghella's (01983 883545; www.minghella.co.uk) on the Isle of Wight, which won bronze in the artisan class, is spicing up its flavours with Ice Dragon - mango ice cream with crushed pineapple, ginger and chilli. Fredericks of Chorley (01257 263154; www.fredericksicecream.co.uk) has more than 70 flavours.

Best vineyard

Nyetimber, West Chiltington, West Sussex (01798 813 989; www.nyetimber-vineyard.com)

'Best English wine' no longer translates as 'best of a bad bunch'; finally English wine is receiving the praise we never knew it deserved, and vintners from Champagne are even buying stretches of Kent and Sussex that have similar grape growing conditions to the hallowed region itself. At last month's English and Welsh Wine of the Year Competition, the Nyetimber Prestige Cuvees Blanc de Blancs 1998 was crowned Wine of the Year for the fourth time in a row. The vineyard opens to the public for events such as English Wine Week, held annually in May.

Runners up: The Chapel Down vineyard (01580 766 111; www.chapeldownwines.co.uk) in Tenterden won a number of titles, including Best Red for its Pinot Noir 2004. Guided tours of the 25-acre vineyard are available and there's a cafe and shop. Best Oaked Wine went to Denbies Wine Estate (01306 876616; www.denbiesvineyard.co.uk) in Surrey, for its Coopers Brook 2003. It offers year-round tours.

Best gastro pub

Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire (01439 770397; www.thestaratharome.co.uk)

British gastropubs are now outshining French bistros, according to Egon Ronay, whose 2006 Guide to the UK's best restaurants now includes star ratings for gastropubs. It named chef Andrew Pern's Star Inn as the country's best. 'Its modest exterior doesn't reveal how good it is inside,' he said. 'I saw a unique dish there, foie gras with homemade black pudding, and thought this can't be good. But it was outstanding, a real brainwave - it stood out a mile.'

Runners up: Although in the last edition of the guide, the Greyhound at Battersea in London (020 7978 7021; www.thegreyhoundatbattersea.co.uk) was only listed and not awarded a star, Egon Ronay believes under new chef Marco Torri it now deserves two. 'The man can really cook,' he says. Ronay also gives London's Guinea Grill (020 7499 1210; www.theguinea.co.uk) two stars. 'The owner was a butcher for many years so he has the best choice of meats,' he says.

Best pork pie

Wilsons Butchers, Crossgates, Leeds (0113 264 5448; www.wilsonsbutchers.co.uk)

Having given weighty consideration to the matter, The Pork Pie Appreciation Society has voted Wilsons Butchers (which has also won awards for sausages) winner of its Best Pork Pie award, singling out the quality of the local pork and seasoned jelly encased in sterling pastry.

Runners up: Proving that Yorkshire has a stranglehold on the affections of the Pork Pie Appreciation Society, close contenders were Middlemiss & Son (01943 462611; www.dalesnet.co.uk) in Otley, Yorkshire, which has been run by the same family for five generations and J&P Cryer (01422 353191) in Halifax.

Best farmers' market

Haverfordwest Farmers Market, Pembrokeshire (01437 776168; www.farmersmarkets.net)

There are now more than 600 across the country to choose from, including the first all-organic farmers' market in London's yummy-eco-mummy central, Stoke Newington. According to this year's Farma awards, the fortnightly farmers' market at Riverside Shopping is the cream of the crop and was named Farmers' Market of the Year 2006.

It's only held on alternate Fridays, but 75 per cent of stall-holders are primary producers, and they collaborate so you can sample bread from one, butter from another and top it off with someone else's jam, before you buy.

Runners up: The monthly Deddington farmers' market in Oxfordshire has great veg and meats, and unusual products such as cobnuts (01869 338 282; www.deddington.org.uk), while Edinburgh farmers' market (0131 652 5940; www.scottishfarmersmarkets.co.uk), on Saturdays on the terrace beneath the castle walls, was praised for its huge range of local soft fruits, most of which used to be frozen and exported.

Best curry

Britannia Spice, Edinburgh (0131 555 2255; www.britanniaspice.co.uk)

Scotland seems to be Britain's curry hotspot right now, with Glasgow holding the Curry Capital of Britain title, and Edinburgh's Britannia Spice heaped with awards for its Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Thai, Northern Indian and Sri Lankan curries. The restaurant scooped Best in Scotland at last month's Best in Britain Awards, its owner Dr Wali Tasar Uddin, who is director-general of the Bangladesh-British Chamber of Commerce, won the industry Personality of the Year Award, and it won best restaurant in Scotland at last year's British Curry Awards. Nominations for this year close tomorrow - vote at www.britishcurryaward.co.uk.

Runners up: At the British Curry Awards, Rajnagar (0121 743 4842; www.rajnagar.com) in Solihull won best in the Midlands, Aagrah (01274 530880; www.aagrah.net) in Shipley, West Yorkshire, won best in the north and Malik's (01628 520085; www.maliks.co.uk) in Berkshire nabbed best in the south.

Best pasty

Barnett's Fare, Bodmin (01208 74426; www.barnettfare.co.uk)

According to last year's Taste of the West Awards, the best Cornish pasty can be found at Barnett's Fare. As crimping goes, theirs are distinctly classy affairs - miniature pasties stuffed with crab, venison, wild boar, brie and cranberry or salmon. More metrosexual fantasy than miner's fare, but delicious nevertheless and made from locally sourced ingredients.

Runners up: Ann Muller sells 300 pasties a day from her home in the Lizard (01326 290889); the Chough Bakery (01841 532835; www.thechoughbakery.co.uk) has prime pasties and position on Padstow harbour.