Restaurant wins award

A Pearl Beach restaurant has been named the "best informal contemporary Australian restaurant in regional NSW" by the NSW Restaurant and Catering Association.

The Pearls on the Beach restaurant was presented with its award at an annual regional awards of excellence presentation dinner on September 22 in the Hunter Valley.

Pearls on the Beach was also nominated as a finalist for the Restaurant of the Year award for regional NSW.

The recent award win follows the Peninsula restaurant's success at the Central Coast division of the NSW Restaurant and Catering Association's Awards of Excellence.

In June, proprietors Scott and Melissa Fox took home the Best Informal Contemporary Australian Restaurant and the Restaurant of the Year award for the Central Coast region.

Bells Restaurant and Bar at Killcare also received an award for Best New Restaurant in regional NSW.

Both restaurants have now qualified as finalists for the National Awards dinner in Brisbane on October 27.

Press release, 26 Sep 2008 Scott and Melissa Fox, Pearls on the Beach