You’ve voted, we’ve counted (and counted, and counted, and counted…) and the Muddy Awards Finals – in association with Healthily and our local partner Keepers Cottages – are LIVE!

A massive THANK YOU for taking the time to support your awesome local businesses this year – more people than ever nominated in the first round of the Awards and, frankly, the response has blown our socks off. 

And, whilst we wish every brilliant business nominated could make it through, there can only be five Finalists in each category and it’s up to YOU to decide who wins the coveted Regional Award. Each Regional winner will also be considered for the first ever National Muddy Awards to find the ‘best of the best’ across all 28 Muddy counties – so there’s even more reason to show your support this year!

The Awards close on Sun 4 June 2023 at midnight – so if there’s a business you love, make sure you take a few seconds out to VOTE HERE.

OK, you want to see who made it through? Course you do! Meet your worthy KENT Finalists:

Best Art Gallery

Fourth Wall (Folkestone)

Under the Rainbow Events, Bluewater (Dartford)

Lilford Gallery (Canterbury)

Artique Gallery (Tunbridge Wells)

Don’t Walk Walk (Deal)

Best Bar

Porto Wine Bar (Whitstable)

REIGN Bar & Lounge (Broadstairs)

The Pilot Beach Bar (Folkestone)

Fuggles Beer Café (Tunbridge Wells)

Life on High (Sevenoaks)

Best Beauty Salon

Beauty Lounge (Whitstable)

Royal Wells Beauty (Tunbridge Wells)

Mrs Page Aesthetics (Ashford)

The Hart Spa (Sevenoaks)

Skin & Beauty Clinic (Tenterden)

Best Bookshop

The Folkestone Bookshop (Folkestone)

The Classroom Children’s Bookshop (Westgate-on-Sea)

Sevenoaks Bookshop (Sevenoaks)

Catching Lives (Canterbury)

Tales on Market St. (Faversham)

Best Boutique Stay

The Rose (Deal)

Elmley Nature Reserve (Isle of Sheppey)

The Marquis of Granby (Alkham)

The Leicester Arms (Penshurst)

Frasers of Egerton (Ashford)

Best Bridal Store

Together Forever Bridal Boutique (Dartford)

Vicki’s Bridal Boutique (Tenterden)

Bridal Boutique at Chilham (Chilham)

Bijou Bridal Studio (Sandwich)

Isabella Grace Bridal (Tunbridge Wells)

Best Café

Leo & Sage (Ashford)

Fringe & Ginge (Canterbury)

Juliets (Tunbridge Wells)

Daily Bread (Rusthall)

Hut 55 (Deal)

Best Children’s Business

Kent Academy of Musical Theatre (Maidstone)

Moo Like a Monkey (Folkestone)

Once Upon a Wish Events (Tunbridge Wells)

Cocoon & Bloom (Maidstone)

Slap ‘n’ Dash (Hawkhurst)

Best Day Spa

Sheldon Spa (Faversham)

Granary Spa (Great Chart)

Green Farm Kent (Ashford)

Reynolds Retreat (Sevenoaks)

Rowhill Grange (Wilmington)

Best Destination Pub

The Dog at Wingham (Wingham)

The Kentish Hare (Bidborough)

The Tiger Inn (Stowting)

Five Bells Inn (East Brabourne)

The Samuel Palmer (Shoreham)

Best Family Attraction

Wingham Wildlife Park (Wingham)

Huckleberry Woods (Faversham)

Alpaca Annie (Romney Marsh)

Hever Castle & Gardens (Hever)

Betteshanger Country Park (Deal)

Best Farmshop/Deli

The Little Marden Farm Shop (Marden)

Frankie’s Farmshop (Staplehurst)

Groombridge Farm Shop (Groombridge)

Macknade (Faversham)

The Goods Shed (Canterbury)

Best Fitness Instructor

Emma Jeffery, Postnatal Personal Trainer (Hildenborough)

Tom Jarrett, Brigade Fitness (Marden)

Charlotte Shaw, Top to Toe Fitness (Faversham)

Sarah Gorman, Blendfit (Tunbridge Wells)

Holly Finch, One Life Health & Fitness (Canterbury)

Best Florist

Anemone Blue Florist (Ashford)

Coco & Bloom (West Malling)

Flower & Glory (Sevenoaks)

The Cove (Tunbridge Wells)

Vinetta Flower Gallery (Maidstone)

Best Hair Salon

The Gallery (Southborough)

Blond-E Hair Salon (Sittingbourne)

Sister Joan (Margate)

We Are Salon (Ramsgate)

The Carriage Hair Studio (Benenden)

Best Hotel/Inn

The PIG – at Bridge (Canterbury)

Hythe Imperial Hotel (Hythe)

The Cave Hotel (Canterbury)

Eastwell Manor (Ashford)

The Falstaff Hotel (Canterbury)

Best Lifestyle Store

Platform (Canterbury)

Made in Ashford (Ashford)

Luxe Vida (Tunbridge Wells)

Rock Paper Scissors (Canterbury)

Gift Edition (Sevenoaks)

Best Jeweller

Justine Cullen Jewellery (Ashford)

Fitzgerald Jewellers (Canterbury)

RAW Copenhagen (Tunbridge Wells)

Navette Jewellery Studio (Ashford)

Rikke Line (Goudhurst)

Best Local Food/Drink Producer

Turners Cider (Marden)

Tankerton Smokeshed (Whitstable)

Wilmshurst Bakery (Wingham)

Canterbury Cider (Canterbury)

Goupie (Goudhurst)

Best New Lifestyle Start Up

The Rock Inn (Chiddingstone)

Raffman & Huckster (Tenterden)

Dorothy & Marshall (Bromley)

Basil & Co (Whitstable)

Chomp (Tunbridge Wells)

Best Restaurant

Rocksalt (Folkestone)

Buoy and Oyster (Margate)

The Old Bank (Westerham)

Hide and Fox (Hythe)

The Counter (Rusthall)

Best Sustainable Lifestyle Business

The Glasshouse (Cranbrook)

Zilch – Zero Waste (Tonbridge)

Gaia Homeware (Folkestone)

The Eco Pantry (Sevenoaks)

Bare Bazaar (Ashford)

Best Theatre/Arts Venue

Trinity Theatre (Tunbridge Wells)

The Malthouse Theatre (Canterbury)

E M Forster Theatre (Tonbridge)

The Marlowe Theatre (Canterbury)

Leas Cliff Hall (Folkestone)

Best Wedding Photographer

Lauren Potter Photography (Ashford)

Matt Cook Photography (Deal)

Victoria Green Photography (Tonbridge)

Emily Brown Photography (Paddock Wood)

Simon Hawkins (Faversham)

Best Wedding Venues

The Night Yard (Canterbury)

The Buttery & Glasshouse (Wrotham)

Cooling Castle Barn (Rochester)

The Beacon (Rusthall)

The Orangery (Maidstone)

Best Women’s Fashion

Tamarisk (Deal)

Kitch (Tunbridge Wells)

Odyl (Cranbrook)

Dressed by Dee (West Malling)

The Beehive (Ashford)

Best Yoga/Pilates Studio

Bora Pilates Studio (Tunbridge Wells)

Flow Yoga Studio (Tunbridge Wells)

The Quaives Yoga (Canterbury)

My Time Pilates (Penshurst)

The Yoga House (Tunbridge Wells)

Got that? Good. Now GO FORTH AND VOTE!