The nominees for the 2015 ALMR Late Night Awards have now been announced. The nominees include businesses from right across the late-night sector and represent the best of an innovative night-time economy.

ALMR Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said: “This year's nominees are the strongest group yet and we have been overwhelmed by the number of responses. We are seeing nominations from across a broad spectrum of businesses, highlighting what a fantastically varied sector and exciting time this is.

“The ALMR's Late Night Awards are judged by both a panel of industry leaders and peers making them the most comprehensive awards of their kind. We are all very much looking forward to the final stages of the judging process and honouring the businesses that are at the cutting edge of the late-night economy.”

The nominees are:

Late Night Food
Dirty Martini 
Grand Union Bars
Blues Kitchen (Colombo Group)
Reds True BBQ
My Lahore

Late Night Drink
New World Trading Company
Bierkeller (Burning Night Group)
TCG
Eclectic Bars
Revolution Bars Group PLC

Entertainment
The Deltic Group
Steam and Rye
Mama & Co
Ministry of Sound
DHP Family

Service & Team
Beds & Bars
Stonegate Pubs
Inception Group
Be At One

Marketing & Promotion
Tokyo Industries
Novus Leisure
iNTERTAIN
Manhattans

Best Venue
Koko (Mint Group)
Fabric
Egg London
Forge (Novus Leisure)
Oceana, Southampton
Casa Stafford
Opium (The Breakfast Group)
Bierkeller, Cardiff (Burning Night Group)

Industry peers can now cast their votes for their top nominees in each category before the judging panel makes a final decision. The winners will be announced at this year's Dusk 'til Dawn ceremony, in association with Propel Info, on 27 October at Cafe de Paris, London.

The judging panel consists of: Kate Nicholls, ALMR; Paul Charity, Propel Info; Michael Troy, Matthew Clark; Dean Ince Molson Coors; Jerry Shedden, Bacardi; Jamal Hirani, Orderella; Olivia Fitzgerald, LiveRes; Dan Davies, CPL Training; Craig Brew, Nicoccino and Phil Tate, CGA Strategy.

Votes can be cast online: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DTDShortlist

ENDS

Notes for editors 

1. The ALMR (Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers) is the only national trade body dedicated to representing the interests of licensed hospitality operators.
2. The ALMR's membership – pub, club, bar and casual dining operators – run 17,500 outlets and employ over 375,000 employees, together they account for almost all managed pubs in the UK as well as leading casual dining chains and nightclubs.
3. For more information please contact the office on 0208 579 2080 or visit www.almr.org.uk.