UK lifestyle platform Muddy Stilettos has announced the finalists of The Muddy Stilettos Awards 2025. The awards recognise independent lifestyle businesses in the UK and run across 35 counties.

For 2025, the awards have 21 lifestyle categories, including four new categories – Best Family Experiences, Best Sports & Fitness Instructor, Best Women's Style and Best Wellbeing Specialist.

Finalists:

London

Best hotel:

• The Connaught (Mayfair)
• Chateau Denmark (West End)
• Dukes Hotel (Mayfair)
• Sun Street Hotel (Shoreditch)
• Broadwick Soho (Soho)

Best restaurant:

• Maremma (Brixton)
• Nessa (Soho)
• Riviera (St James's)
• Anglothai (Marylebone)
• The Frog by Adam Handling (Covent Garden)

Best beauty salon:

• Linnaean (Battersea)
• Radiance (Fitzrovia)
• Self London (Marylebone)
• Still London (Dalston)
• Pfeffer Sal (Fitzrovia)

Best hair salon:

• Glasshouse Salon (Hackney)
• The Loch Salon (Kensington)
• Gusto Hair Salon (Soho)
• Stil Salon (Chelsea)
• Neville Hair & Beauty (Belgravia)

Best boutique stay:

• Lime Tree Hotel (Belgravia)
• L'oscar London (Covent Garden)
• Artist Residence (Pimlico)
• The Lost Poet (Notting Hill)
• Boundary Shoreditch (Shoreditch)

For the full list of finalists, visit muddystilettos.co.uk.

Next steps:

The top 5 businesses with the most nominations in each category will go through to the regional finals (25 March – 15 April). Public voting lasts until 1 pm on 15 April, with regional winners being announced on 30 April.

Round 3:

Regional winners from every category will automatically go through to the prestigious national finals (18 June–25 June). The Muddy Stilettos editors will judge who is the ‘Best of the Best’ in each category, announcing the national winners on 25 June.

To nominate and for more information, visit muddystilettos.co.uk.