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Broad Street – Britain’s best foodie street

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Birmingham’s Broad Street has been shortlisted in the first Google Street View Awards in the category of Best Foodie Street.

Nicholas Lander, the Financial Times’ Restaurant Correspondent was part of the panel experts that nominated Broad Street for this prestigious award recognising the eclectic mix of mouth-watering options available along the city’s Golden Mile.

The panel of experts also included VisitBritain, TV personalities Julia Bradbury (CountryFile), Jeff Banks (The Clothes Show), journalist Jo Elvin (Editor of Glamour Magazine) and authors David Else (Lonely Planet) and Richard Harden (Harden’s Restaurant Guide).

The awards have been created in anticipation of further imagery being added to Google’s Street View tool, which currently allows users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery in 25 British towns.

If successful Broad Street will be named “Britain’s Best Foodie Street 2010” and will then work with the team at Google to create a bespoke Google Street View tour to highlight the key retailers and points of interest allowing the world to find out more about the winning area.

The nationwide public vote has now opened and will close on Sunday 28th February. The winners will be announced in March.

To support Broad Street and vote for it to be crowned champion go to www.maps.google.co.uk/beststreets (http:// www.maps.google.co.uk/beststreets).