Thame had 3 winners in the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2018

Thame had 3 winners in the 2018 Muddy Stilettos Awards 2018 for Bucks and Oxon.

The Book House won the Best Book Shop, FROM won the Best Gift Shop and Deb Porter Photography won the Best Photographer Award.

Muddy Stilettos first tottered into the world in 2011 as a way for journalist Hero Brown (Independent on Sunday, The Observer, Red, Marie Claire, Elle) to find out the fun stuff to do in Bucks & Oxon, having moved out of London that summer with husband and baby son in tow.

Quickly Muddy Stilettos caught on locally to become the ultimate ‘urban guide to the countryside’ – a witty, super-useful insider’s guide to the very best food, walks, boutiques, day trips, hotels, interiors and events for smart, fun-loving women living outside London.

A extract from the Muddy Stilettos website about the winners is below:

The Muddy Stilettos Awards 2018 romped to a close on Friday with thousands upon thousands of you supporting the local businesses you love the most.

If you’re a regular reader (or voter!) you’ll know that The Muddy Awards are free to all and run as a good-natured, positive celebration of the most brilliant, unique and unmissable businesses across the Muddy counties. Over 20,000 of you voted in the Bucks/Oxon Awards across 24 lifestyle categories, showing how much we all appreciate independence and creativity.

From yours truly – a gibbering wreck of an editor, crossed eyed with checking spreadsheets – it’s a heartfelt and whopping great THANK YOU and multiple love emoji to everyone who took part or voted.

But enough blather from me. Want to meet your winners? All fabulous and worthy of your applause and hopefully quite a few businesses you don’t already know about so you can use them to plan your fun for the rest of 2018!

Hero x

THE MUDDY STILETTOS AWARDS WINNERS 2018!

Best Art Gallery: Dantzig Gallery (Woodstock)

Best Bar: Thirteen (Bicester)

Best Beauty Salon: Mirror Image Beauty (Wallingford)

Best Bookshop: The Book House (Thame)

Best Boutique Stay: The Bay Tree Hotel (Burford)

Best Café: Drifters (Henley)

Best Children’s Store: Angel & Rocket (Marlow)

Best Day Spa: Stoke Park Spa (Stoke Poges)

Best Destination Pub: The Greyhound Inn (Letcombe Regis)

Best Family Attraction: Cotswold Wildlife Park (Burford)