A HullBID publication aimed at raising awareness of the city’s best places to eat is to be re-printed after proving a big hit with local diners and visitors to the city.

The HullBID dine brochure, entitled “Eat, Drink, Enjoy”, was first published last year. Hotels, restaurants and cafe bars throughout the BID area were offered the opportunity to promote their cuisine free of charge and the glossy, A5 brochure was distributed as a hard copy and online at www.eatdrinkenjoy.co.uk

The print run of 20,000 was soon snapped up from hotel receptions, the Tourist Information Centre and the venues themselves and with the publication proving so popular HullBID City Centre Manager Kathryn Shillito took the decision to repeat the project.

Kathryn said: “The reason for launching the brochure in the first place was to address the perception that the BID area lacked quality venues for people to eat and drink.

“Our research indicated that people were quite happy to come into the city centre to dine... but they just weren’t sure where to go.  The diversity we have in our quality hotels, restaurants and cafe bars had to be promoted effectively.

“The brochure has certainly done that but the landscape has changed, there are some fantastic new places and we will include them in the new edition.”

Among the new venues to be featured is Port-Side Bistro, which opened earlier this year in Princes Dock Street.

Owner Mark Duckett said: “We weren’t here last year so we missed out on the brochure, but things have gone really well since we opened and we’re looking forward to reaching a wider audience.

“We’ve had some rave reviews on Trip Advisor and other websites and the brochure will help us build on that. It’s a great initiative by HullBID.”

Cerutti’s, which is in Nelson Street and has operated since 1974, was featured in the first edition of the brochure and Head Chef Tim Bell said the response was very positive.

“A publication like this is very helpful, particularly when it is distributed through the Tourist Information Centre and the concierge desks at the hotels,” he said.

“We get a lot of recommendations from hotels and we know the publication of the brochure last year brought a lot of people through our door.”