Restaurant awards

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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• Alex Dilling, Cycene, Luca and more get stars at the 2023 Michelin guide announcement

  

  Once again, we've had what is viewed by many in the restaurant world as the main awards ceremony of the season - the new Michelin stars reveal. This was Michelin's first in-person event in three years, and they decided to move things up to Silverstone for the occasion. As usual, there was quite the preamble before we got to the awards but when we

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• When are the Michelin 2023 stars announced for London and the UK

  

  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.

• The 2023 Top 50 Gastropubs are announced - Parkers Arms tops the list, Red Lion and Sun is London's best

  

  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

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• Readers' vote winner - your favourite new restaurant of 2022

  

  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.  

• The Hot Dinners 2022 restaurant awards - the complete review of the year

  

  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. 

• The Good Food Guide picks Birmingham over London for most exciting food destination of 2022

  

  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

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• The OFM Awards 2022 recognise today's food heroes

  

  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

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• The 50 Best bars list sees Tayer & Elementary in at number two, Barcelona's Paradiso in the top place

  

  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

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• A Wong and Uncle Roger win big at The Golden Chopsticks Awards

  

  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

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