Top award honours for Newton Grill - the number one restaurant in town

Before owners Gareth Hughes, Mo Zaki and Ste Tunstall have been able to celebrate the Newton-le-Willows business’ first birthday, they’ve won our final Best of 2023 award – St Helens Star’s Best Restaurant 2023 – and they couldn’t be happier or prouder of everything they’ve achieved over the past year.

Each week, we will be searching for the best St Helens has to offer in different categories and we’ve given out 23 awards for 2023.

The winners so far:

Best for Hair – Hair by Alice Michelle

Best for Pies – Blackburn’s

Best for Nails – Kreative Kirsty

Best for Roast Dinner – The Brown Edge Pub

Best for Cocktails – The Townhouse

Best for Breakfast – Shakey J’s

Best for Fitness – Ashley-James Ward

Best for Fish and Chips – Paul’s Fishbar

Best for Tattoos – White Rabbit Tattoo Studio

Best for Pizza – Dial-A-Pizza

Best for Pets – The Dog House

Best Independent Shop or Business – Stone Tyres

Best for Dessert – Antonia’s Cakes

Best for Beauty – Chantel Louise

Best for Kids – Jo Jingles Warrington, St Helens and Wigan

Best Gym – Ruskin Fitness Club

Best Beer Garden – The Dam

Best for Afternoon Tea - Nirvana Coffee Shop

Best for Burgers – Shakey J’s

Best Café or Coffee Shop – Nirvana Coffee Shop

Best for Curry – Balti Spice

Best Pub or Bar – The Millhouse

Next on the menu was the search for St Helens’ Best Restaurant and Newton Grill took the final Best of 2023 crown.

Owners Gareth Hughes and Mo Zaki with Seve Gomez-Aspron MP (Image: supplied)

Gareth, Mo and Ste opened Newton Grill on Wargrave Road in December last year – a family-run business that provides much needed comfort food for its hungry customers.

They offer breakfast, brunch, lunch and evening meals in a relaxed and comfortable environment and they also provide healthy meal prep for people wanting to eat at home.

All meals are nutritionally balanced and they can cater for most dietary requirements.

Meal preparation is popular with customers wanting to eat at home (Image: supplied)

Mo, who is 37, said: “We decided to open Newton Grill because we wanted to offer a quality food house in the Wargrave area.

“Our business background is in catering, public houses and meal preparation.

“Gareth is chef and we all wanted to put our experience in catering into practise.

“We are a family-run business offering home cooked food and we also offer comfort dining and healthy meal prep.

“We have sponsored some high level athletes including a former heavy weight world champion.

“Our sister companies Newton Fitness and Newton Functions are also keeping us busy.”

Fried chicken sharing platter (Image: supplied)

Gareth, who is 49, added: “Customers like the tasty, home cooked food that’s well presented and reasonably priced and the friendly atmosphere at Newton Grill.

“Meeting the customers and being able to employ local people are at the forefront of our restaurant.”

But what do customers at Newton Grill think about the restaurant? Why did they think they should win our final Best of 2023 award?

There were lots of nominations and recommendations for Newton Grill – they clearly keep their customers happy.

Double whammy burger (Image: supplied)

One nomination said: “Great home cooked food and massive tomahawk steaks – amazing!”

Ste, who is 53, said: “When he heard we’d been shortlisted for St Helens Star’s Best Restaurant 2023 award we were so proud to have our hard work recognised.

“When we were told we’d won we were ecstatic – it’s such a big achievement.

“It’s amazing what we have achieved in such a short space of time.

“A huge thank you to all our loyal customers for their support – their time spent voting – in making us the best restaurant in St Helens.”

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Inside Newton Grill in Newton-le-Willows (Image: supplied)