Restaurant awards

• The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2022 - the complete guide

  

  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).

• World's 50 Best reveals the 2022 51-100 list, with Kol as the highest new entry

  

  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

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• Ynyshir voted as the UK's best restaurant (with Brat at no. 3) - see the top 100 here

  

  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 -

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• The 10th annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards celebrate food writers, presenters and more

  

  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

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• 50 Top Pizza 2022 unveil the best pizzerias in Europe (London makes it to no. 3)

  

  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

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• The GQ Food & Drink Awards 2022 are announced - here are the winners

  

  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
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• The World's 50 Best awards move to London

   

  This year, The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards were due to be held in Moscow, but after the invasion of Ukraine, those plans were quickly dropped. Instead, the ceremony is coming back to where it all started - London.

  The awards usually bring with it an influx of the world's best chefs into the city, although they're usually spending their time eating out and not necessarily cooking. However,

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• The 2022 Michelin Bib Gourmands for London are revealed

  

  Michelin kicked off their 2022 slow reveal today with the announcement of their Bib Gourmands. This year, Michelin are doing things a little differently, revealing the Bibs first, then the special awards and then the stars themselves (find out all about the timings here). 

  So today was the

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• Top 50 gastropubs revealed - Unruly Pig tops the list, The Guinea is the best in London

  

  The reveal of the Top 50 Gastropubs of 2022 yesterday makes it the first big awards of the year to be announced. Topping the list for the first time is The Unruly Pig, the Suffolk pub with chef Dave Wall behind the

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• The Hot Dinners 2021 awards - the complete review of the year

   

  It's that time of year again! We're taking a look back at a year of dining - where we finally emerged from lockdown for an extended (and hopefully permanent) period. London's restaurant scene slowly built itself back up and there were some wonderful new restaurants. Here's our round-up of 2021.

• The AA announces new rosettes for SOLA, KOL, Myrtle and more...

  

  We're in the depths of awards season at the moment and the latest to be unveiled are the AA Rosettes, one of two notable motor companies producing restaurant awards right now. The most prestigious of the AA awards are the three and four rosettes - and that's what was given out today, steering towards the high-end side of UK dining. It's the 65th year these awards have been handed out -

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