hungryhouse has scooped a prestigious Nectar Business Award, fending off stiff competition from hundreds of successful enterprises to be named "Online Business of the Year, 2011". We were selected to win by a panel of business experts, including star of BBC1's The Apprentice, Karren Brady.

The winners of the first ever hungryhouse.co.uk English Curry Awards were announced on the evening of the 25th of July 2011 at a glittering bash at The Sheridan Suite in Manchester. Nominations came in from all over England and the race to be crowned at this year’s debut awards ceremony was an extremely tight contest.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE hungryhouse.co.uk 2011 ENGLISH CURRY AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN.

Four nomination categories recognise the devotion, the diligence, and the damn hard work that goes into the creation and consumption of this nation's greatest dish:

Nominations came in from all over Scotland and the race to be crowned at this year's awards ceremony was an extremely tight contest.

Glasgow, voted the Curry Capital of Britain last year for the fourth time in the last decade, is well represented this year at the first hungryhouse.co.uk Scottish Curry Awards.

hungryhouse.co.uk, has been shortlisted in the Nectar Business Small Business Awards 2010, which will be judged by star of hit BBC TV show Dragon’s Den, James Caan.

hungryhouse.co.uk has been chosen by a judging panel including Deborah Meaden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’.

The Smarta 100 is the ultimate business accolade, recognizing the UK’s smartest small businesses. Smarta.com has uncovered remarkable companies who have gone the extra mile to differentiate themselves from the market or found clever ways to compete, from their marketing plan to their ethical stance. The result is a fascinating insight into the unique business ideas that are thriving in the current economic climate.

We're really excited this week, because our founders, Shane and Tony, won a BT Essence of the Entrepreneur award for hungryhouse.

Shane went along to a star-studded event at the Oxo Tower (by the River Thames), and collected our award from none other than Peter Jones. Perhaps the best bit, though, is that all the winners got to be photographed by legendary photographer, Rankin.

This year, a lot of the winners were companies like us, whose success is driven by technological innovation. Some great ideas include a company making wild jelly shapes -- any design you'd like -- and a traditional fruit stall with a twist.

hungryhouse.co.uk gets the thumbs-up ahead of the competition, from consumer review site Mazi.tv.

See what Poppy Dinsey and Maz Nadjm have to say by clicking to play the video.