Head chef at Belfast restaurant A Peculiar Tea is the only Northern Irish person to have been recognised for a UK-wide hospitality award.
The Staff Canteen is the UK's leading networking website for chefs and their annual awards focus on "hospitality celebrating hospitality".
Gemma Austin has been nominated as 'One to Watch' at the 2022 awards. This award celebrates the industry’s up-and-coming talent and the description of the award reads it is "the people you think are going to be the next hospitality superstars".