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- The Ledbury voted best in the UK at the 2024 National Restaurant Awards (plus see the full top 100)
One of the biggest awards shows for UK restaurants took place last night, where the 2024 National Restaurant Awards revealed its list of the top 100 restaurants in the UK.
It was a big night for The Ledbury which managed to grab the top slot for the first time since its big post-Covid revamp. It
... - The World's 50 Best Restaurants announce the 51-100 list for 2024 with Mountain a new entry for London
Two weeks ahead of the announcement of this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list comes the release of the lower part of the list. Managing to get your restaurant into Numbers 51-100 is still a massive achievement of course and this year London has five restaurants in this section.
It's great news in particular for Soho restaurant Mountain which is a brand new entry this year, coming in at 94.
... - Fortnum's honour The Hairy Bikers and Rick Stein at their annual food and drink awards
It's always one of our favourite parties to go to each year and last night's bash by Fortnum's at The Royal Exchange was no different. The party was held to announce the famous food shop's annual Food and Drink Awards, celebrating the UK's writers, photographers and content creators.
Going home with gongs last night were the Financial Times restaurant critic Tim Hayward, writer and expert on Chinese
... - Mountain leads the London restaurants celebrating this year's Star Wine List awards
If you're mad into your wines and looking for a good restaurant wine list to work your way through then the reveal of this week's Star Wine lists for the UK is a good starting place.
The lists, which are a celebration of the best in the world, were particularly good news for Mountain in Soho which picked up two gold stars for Best Newcomer and Best Long List along with the big prize, The Grand Prix for best
... - La Dame de Pic leads the London restaurants celebrating with new AA rosettes for 2024
Last night in London brought another round of restaurant awards, showering praise on the city's eating establishments. This time it was the turn of the AA guide which released its annual distribution of AA rosettes.
Rosettes range from one to five, but it's the top two categories that we're most concerned with - think of them as the equivalent of your two and three Michelin stars. This year La Dame de Pic at
... - When are the Michelin 2024 stars being announced for London, the UK and Ireland?
It's nearly time for the main restaurant awards of the season to be announced. Find out when the 2024 Michelin stars for London and the UK are being announced - and what to expect.
- Mountain and The Sportsman win best restaurant awards from The Good Food Guide 2024
Another year, another awards season and just before we get to next week's new Michelin stars, it's the turn of The Good Food Guide to unveil their gongs.
This year, there's been a bit of a shake-up at the guide, with their scoring rating being replaced and instead they'll be highlighting restaurants
... - The 2024 Michelin Bib Gourmands for London are announced
The Bib Gourmands are billed as being for slightly more affordable restaurants than your average Michelin fare, serving "good food at moderate prices". So with that in mind, here's who got a shiny new bib this year in London.
- The Unruly Pig tops Britain's gastropub list with Highgate's The Red Lion and Sun as London's top pub
The Unruly Pig in Woodbridge, SuffolkThe annual reveal of the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list always makes us want to close our laptops
... - The 2023 Hot Dinners Awards - the very best of eating and drinking in London
It's that time again - where we round up the very best of London's eating and drinking in the year that's almost done. Here's our complete run-down of the very best of 2023 - including the city's best new restaurant.
- L'enclume tops La Liste's 1000 best restaurants in the world
There were celebrations up in Cumbria yesterday as Simon Rogan's flagship restaurant L'enclume came in at no. 1 on La Liste's pick of the 1000 best restaurants in the world. L'Enclume tied for joint first place with a number of other restaurants, all with a final score of 99.50, including Le Bernardin in New York and Sushi Saito in Japan.
Other top-rating UK restaurants in the upper echelons of this year's list
... - Three restaurants for London in World's 50 Best Restaurants List for 2023 - Kol, Ikoyi and The Clove Club
This year, the world's top chefs and restaurateurs gathered in Valencia to hear where their establishments had placed in the 2023 World's 50 Best Restaurants list. "It's a celebration of diverse cuisines and culinary cultures," said the list's head of content, William Drew in his opening speech.
The event began with a recounting of the 51-100 portion of the list, which you can
- Ynyshir tops the National Restaurant Awards 2023 list again, Da Terra at 3, Bouchon Racine in at 5
The Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards for 2023 have been announced and, after its debut last year at the top, Ynyshir has once again retained the pole position as Restaurant of the Year. The Welsh restaurant has been going from strength to strength
... - World's 50 Best Restaurants announce the 2023 51-100 list and three London restaurants make the cut
While we wait for the main event on 20 June, the World's 50 Best Restaurants started ramping up the excitement by releasing the 51-100 section of the list.
It's always an interesting reveal, not least because if any of the UK restaurants that were in this section last year but aren't this year, you can begin speculating as to whether they've dropped out altogether or have risen to the heady heights
... - The winners of this year's Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards have been announced
The great and good of the food and drink world assembled last night at The Royal Exchange for the 2023 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. And while the canapes and seemingly limitless Champagne were all rather fabulous we were mainly there to discover who the panel of judges had decided should walk away with a gong for their contributions, be it in writing, broadcasting or photography.
We spotted all manner of famous faces at last
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