Fay Maschler's 2005 awards

DESIGN DETAIL OF THE YEAR
Broadcasts and recitations in lavatories. Best encountered: Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening at China Tang. Worst: Nicholas Parsons on Just a Minute at The Living Room.

PUZZLE OF THE YEAR
Why no one can get the simple salad, steak-frites, secret sauce formula even nearly right.

THE NEXT BIG CUISINE
Korean.

SOMMELIER OF THE YEAR
Dawn Davies at The Ledbury.

BEST FRENCH IMPORT SINCE THE BAGUETTE
Pascal Aussignac of Comptoir Gascon.

WHAT THE CATERING INDUSTRY SHOULD THANK THE LORD FOR
Immigrants.

MOST PROMISING YOUNG OLD ETONIAN
Sam Harrison at Sam's Brasserie.

BEST VALUE
Galvin Bistrot de Luxe and Imli Indian restaurant.

DAFTEST CONCEPT
Putting Italian, Middle Eastern and Asian menus together to exemplify food of the Silk Route in a Grade I-listed former courtroom, now part of a hotel. Silk, as it was called, is mercifully no more.

THE HOTTEST MEALS

IMLI 167-169 Wardour Street, W1 (020 7287 4243) £52.

AGNI 160 King Street, W6 (020 8846 9191) £50.

INDIAN ZING 236 King Street, W6 (020 8748 5959) £54.

SHIKARA 87 Sloane Avenue, SW3 (020 7581 6555) £60.

GALVIN BISTROT DE LUXE 66 Baker Street, W1 (020 7935 4007) £85.

COMPTOIR GASCON 63 Charterhouse Street, EC1 (020 7608 0851) £70.

DINE 17-18 Tooks Court, EC4 (020 7404 1818) £80.

MAZE 10-13 Grosvenor Square, W1 (020 7107 0000) £120.

GROCER ON WARWICK 21 Warwick Street, W1 (020 7437 7776) £75.

GLAS 3 Park Street, SE1 (020 7357 6060) £70.

WIZZY 616 Fulham Road, SW6 (020 7736 9171) £80.

SANTA MARIA DEL BUEN AYRE 50 Broadway Market, E8 (020 7275 9900) £60.

GARDEN CAFÉ Inner Circle, Regent's Park, NW1, (020 7935 5729) £45.

ROAST Floral Hall, Stoney Street, SE1 (020 7940 1300) £110.

THE LEDBURY 127 Ledbury Road, W11 (020 7792 9090) £145.

ADDENDUM RESTAURANT 1 Seething Lane, EC3 (020 7977 9500) £125. Prices above estimate the cost of a meal for two with wine.