You have been nominating cracking cafes and terrific tearooms for the Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards. Here’s your top 10 picks.

Our readers have been voting for their favourite pubs and bars across Kent and Medway - and we’ve whittled it down to the top 10.

The landlord of a pub which was saved by residents says it was an honour to be named runner-up in the National Pub of the Year awards.

We’re revealing the top 10 restaurants our readers nominated for the first Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards.

Perfect for a lunchtime pint, Secret Drinker finds a town centre pub with plenty of tradition – and a new line in beer

This ‘steampunk’ restaurant tries to cover all bases, but our reporter’s experience is more of a swing and a miss.

Villagers are hoping for an extra £250,000 grant from the government would help them buy Pop Larkins’ boozer.

An annual cocktail event aimed at getting bodies back into the town’s businesses is returning next month.

The boss of a bakery business is “heartbroken” after announcing four of her five shops are shutting due to rising costs.

A hot wings spot loved by Premier League and international footballers has been forced to push back the opening of its first Kent branch.

A family-run free house has been put on the market after it suddenly ceased trading.

Proud Italian restaurant owners are celebrating after winning a spot in the Michelin Guide after opening for just 18 months.

Secret Drinker is back on the sauce already at a great British pub with staff from every corner of the globe

If it’s your New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, we might have found the perfect place in Kent to start.

From Italian pasta to dry-aged steak and spicy chicken wings, these are some of the must-visit restaurants to keep on your radar this year.

A long-serving pub landlord is stepping down after 25 years so he can concentrate on running a coffee shop.

There’s not long left to get your nominations in for the first Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards and be entered into our prize draw.

A historic 17th century village pub which fell on hard times now has a new future as a vintage tea room.

Each week we bring you the county’s most honest food reviews in our Eat My Words column – here are some of our favourite venues we visited this year.

A young woman has taken over a historic village pub where she first started working aged just 13.