Foxeys Hangout in Red Hill has taken out the Restaurant category at the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s 2022 Best Bites Food Awards. Tootgarook’s The Kitchen picked up silver, while Unica Cucina E Caffe in Capel Sound and Moorooduc’s Stumpy Gully won joint bronze.
The Café category was won by Mornington’s Commonfolk Coffee Company, with Blue Mini in Rosebud winning silver and Two to Tango in Somerville taking bronze. The other business category award-winners were:
Retail: Be Fit Food, Mornington, gold; Ritchies Mt Eliza, Mount Eliza, silver; La Casa Nostra Deli, Rosebud, bronze.
Health and Education: Crib Point Early Learning Centre, Crib Point, gold; Hastings Childcare and Community Kinder, Hastings, and Tyabb Village Children’s Centre, Tyabb, joint silver.
Takeaway Outlets: Spudalicious, Hastings, gold; The Hive Loukoumades, Rye, silver.
Farmgate: Mock Red Hill, Red Hill, gold.
Other businesses were recognised for their work across various areas of excellence:
Waste and Recycling: Via Battisti, Mount Martha.
Energy and Water Efficiency: Paradigm Hill, Merricks.
Access and Inclusion: It’s A Burger, Rosebud.
Nutrition and Healthy Eating: Blue Mini, Rosebud.
Smoke-Free and Alcohol: The Hidden Kitchen, Tootgarook.
Best Bites is a Mornington Peninsula Shire and Peninsula Health program recognising the most outstanding food businesses in the areas of food safety, healthy eating, sustainability, reduction of tobacco/alcohol, and access and inclusion. Finalists in each category were judged by an independent panel.
All winners and nominated businesses will be featured in the Best Bites Food Guide for 2022-23, which will be published later this year. The online guide lists food businesses that scored more than 95 per cent in their food safety assessment and provided excellence across one or more of the Best Bites categories.
View the full list of category winners, finalists and highly commendeds at mornpen.vic.gov.au/bestbites; all Best Bites food businesses can be viewed at
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