Nag’s a finalist in gourmet pub award

BY FERGUS GRIEVE
Popular Glebe nightspot the Nag’s Head Hotel has made it through to the final four in the Redback Gourmet Pub Awards.
The final round of the competition is shaping up to be a do-or-die battle between Sydney’s inner-west and north-west as the Nag’s Head lines up with Rozelle’s Three Weeds to take on two Rouse Hill heavyweights, the Mean Fiddler and the Ettamogah Pub.
At stake is a $10,000 advertising campaign and a fridge full of Redback beer courtesy of competition promoters, the Australian Radio Network and the Matilda Bay Brewing Company. The only pub in the final four not to have missed out on a metro rail link in the NSW mini-budget, the Nag’s Head goes into the finals in good form.
General manager Andrew Glaister is very excited to have made the cut from a field of around 300 nominees. “To be acknowledged by the people of Sydney as one of the four best pubs in the city is a real buzz,” he said.
In their inaugural year the Redback Gourmet Pub Awards are being run in both Sydney and Perth. Celebrity gourmet dance legend Paul Mercurio has been enlisted to review several of the nominees. The public have voted online and the four top-scoring pubs in each city have gone through to the finals.
The winner will be judged by a panel of industry experts and announced in mid December.