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The Unruly Pig tops Britain's gastropub list with Highgate's The Red Lion and Sun as London's top pub

unruly pig suffolk top gastropub 2024The Unruly Pig in Woodbridge, Suffolk

The annual reveal of the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list always makes us want to close our laptops and head straight to a cosy pub for a proper pint and a pie. This year the list is topped, for the second time, by Suffolk pub The Unruly Pig.

The 16th-century pub has won a plethora of awards since it was taken over in 2015 by former solicitor Brendan Padfield and chef Dave Wall and is 77 on the National Restaurant Awards Top 100 list too. As for the food, they describe it as Britalian, so seasonal British food with an Italian influence. A quick look at a recent menu includes dishes such as Cuttlefish and brown crab ragu with sopressini pasta alongside Venison Wellington served up with a huntsman sauce.

Back down in London our own personal favourite, The Red Lion & Sun in Highgate, has climbed even higher to Number 6 on the list (it was at 10 last year). Over in Kentish Town, the fizz is being uncorked by The Parakeet which joins the list at number 36. And just outside town The Fordwich Arms and Bridge Arms in Kent are both celebrating their chef Daniel Smith being named Chef of the Year in the awards.

We're going to assume The Devonshire didn't open in time to make this year's list, but expect that to be prominent come 2025.

Here's the full 2024 list (with London pubs in bold).

  1. The Unruly Pig, Woodbridge
  2. The Cornish Arms, Tavistock
  3. The Mariners, Rock
  4. The Fordwich Arms, Canterbury
  5. The Sportsman, Seasalter
  6. The Red Lion & Sun, Highgate, London
  7. Parkers Arms, Newton-in-Bowland
  8. The Star Inn, Harome
  9. Freemasons at Wiswell, Wiswell
  10. The Hand & Flowers, Marlow
  11. Heft, High Newton
  12. The Harwood Arms, Fulham, London
  13. The Angel at Hetton, Hetton
  14. The Rat Inn, Hexham
  15. The Bridge Arms, Canterbury
  16. The Dog at Wingham, Wingham
  17. The Shibden Mill Inn, Halifax
  18. The Gunton Arms, Thorpe Market
  19. The Pack Horse, Hayfield
  20. Pyne Arms, Barnstaple
  21. The Coach, Marlow
  22. The Beehive, White Waltham
  23. The Broad Chare, Newcastle
  24. The Edinburgh Castle, Manchester
  25. The Three Horseshoes, Batcombe
  26. The Baring, Islington, London
  27. The Kentish Hare, Tunbridge Wells
  28. The Pipe & Glass Inn, Beverley
  29. The White Swan at Fence, Fence
  30. The Longs Arms, Bath
  31. The Bull & Last, Highgate, London
  32. The Black Bear, Usk
  33. The Dog & Gun Inn, Skelton
  34. The Woolpack, Stroud
  35. The Barrington Boar, Barrington
  36. The Parakeet, Kentish Town, London
  37. The Masons Arms, Knowstone
  38. The Abbey Inn, Byland
  39. The Black Bull, Sedbergh
  40. The Cadogan Arms, Chelsea, London
  41. The Bulls Head, Craswall
  42. The Loch and The Tyne, Windsor
  43. The Guinea Grill, Mayfair, London
  44. The Dew Drop Inn, Hurley
  45. The Killingworth Castle, Wootton
  46. The Canton Arms, Stockwell, London
  47. The Double Red Duke, Clanfield
  48. The Duncombe Arms, Ashbourne
  49. The Scran & Scallie, Edinburgh
  50. The Bull, Charlbury

 

red lion and sun top gastropubs 2024The cosy Red Lion & Sun up in Highgate

 

More about The Top 50 Gastropubs

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