Restaurant awards

It's nearly time for the main restaurant awards of the season to be announced. Find out when the 2023 Michelin stars for London and the UK are being announced - and what to expect.

Kicking off the year with the first major awards of the season, the Top 50 Gastropubs of 2023 were announced last night. 

This year it's the turn of a pub that we hear no end of great things about - The Parkers Arms. The Lancashire pub, led by Kathy Smith and Stosie Madi. Last year's number one The Unruly Pig drops only one place

We've added up the votes and the results are in! Out of a shortlist of nearly 50 new restaurants (itself taken from almost 250 restaurants that we tracked as opening in 2022) here's your favourite new restaurant openings of 2022 plus the runners-up.  

Celebrating the joy of a whole year's dining out without any restrictions - we look back at the highs of 2022 for our London restaurant round-up of the past 12 months. 

Things aren't looking so great for London diners, according to the Good Food Guide. As the first guide to be published in two years was launched in a party last night (in London) it transpired that not only was our city no longer considered the most exciting place to eat in the country, but the number of restaurants it could muster in the guide's top 20 had almost halved.

The 2022 guide features just five London establishments in

After three barren years, the great and good of the food world returned to the Freemasons Hall in central London for the return of the Observer Food Monthly Awards for the first time since the pandemic. Hosted by Jay Rayner and Grace Dent, the ceremony saw the finest in British food and drink rewarded for their efforts.

There were standing ovations for several category winners - the Cook for Ukraine team and Taz Khan from the

The World's 50 Best Bars were announced last night and while The Connaught has reigned for two years, it's time for someone else to take the top spot. It's the turn of Bar Paradiso in Barcelona, which happens to be right behind a pastrami shop in the city.

However, it was still a very good night indeed for London bars with Monica Berg

We're clearly entering awards season. On the same night as the AA announced its 2022 Hospitality Awards, the UK's East and South East Asian restaurants were being celebrated across town at The Golden Chopsticks Awards.

Hosted by Gok Wan, the Mayfair awards ceremony sounds like a

Not having had an actual real-life ceremony for three years, we're imagining that last night's AA Hospitality Awards were a doozy of a party. Hosted by TV's Gabby Logan, the awards handed out gongs to restaurants and hotels across the country and London did pretty well out of it.

The Ritz's John Williams MBE picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award. "It’s been a challenging couple of years," the chef said, "but I really

We take a closer look at the 2022 World's 50 Best Restaurants List and also find out what's so great about the top 10 (and how much they cost).

It's nearly time for the 2022 World's 50 Best Restaurants awards (the event takes place on 18 July). So to get us all in the mood, we've just had numbers 51-100 revealed. 

This often gives us something of an opportunity to predict any changes to the top 50 based on what is/isn't in the 51-100 section. For example, the appearance of Lyle's at 54 means that it's

Gareth Ward's Ynyshir in Wales has long been a highly-praised restaurant and now it's finally made its way right to the top of the 100 restaurants picked for this year's National Restaurant Awards. Last year's No 1 moves only one place down the list, while Brat is the capital's highest placing on the list at No 3. It's particularly good news for Chet Sharma's Bibi too -

Last night saw the 10th annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards take place at The Royal Exchange. And, as you'd expect from a ceremony chaired by Claudia Winkleman and Angela Hartnett, the bash attracted quite the foodie audience including Mary Berry, Monica Galetti and Claudia Roden.

Here's who went home with a bioplastic hamper-shaped award (and an actual hamper) from this year's

This week in the world of restaurant awards, it's time for pizza. At a ceremony in Milan, the new 50 Top Pizza awards were unveiled, with Peppe Pizzeria in Paris once again topping the list. But it wasn't a bad day for London, with 50 Kalò London making it as high as number three on the list (and 50 Kalo's Ciro Salvo also getting an

There'll be a few sore heads in the hospitality world this morning, following last night's GQ Food and Drink Awards 2022. But some of those who attended the ceremony at Decimo at The Standard in King's Cross will at least have prizes to feel good about today.

Here's who left last night with a gong:

• Best Bartender - Maxim Schulte (former head bartender at both The American Bar and Kol's