Good Food Guide 2015 announce top 50 restaurants

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After bringing you the top ten which saw the first three score a perfect score of ten, and making history, we can now bring you the 40 more which make up the Good Food Guide 2015 Top 50 restaurants.

Simon Rogan appears twice more as The French sits at position 14 and Fera at Claridges is at 19 and fellow Cornish restaurant Paul Ainsworth at No. 6 joins Nathan Outlaw and sits at number 33. Seventeen restaurants in London make the list as well as three in Scotland, with Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles at position 11, scoring eight out of 10 just missing out on the top ten spot to reach 11th spot.

The rest of the 50 features restaurants up and down the country as the guide aims to give a fair representation of the UK restaurant scene. As the guide say themselves: “reviews are based on the huge volume of feedback that we receive from readers and this, together with anonymous inspections, ensures that every entry is assessed afresh.”

Here are the top 50, with their scores in brackets:

  1. L’Enclume, Cumbria (10)
  2. The Fat Duck, Berkshire (10)
  3. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London (10)
  4. Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall (9)
  5. Hibiscus, London (9)
  6. Pollen Street Social, London (9)
  7. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire (9)
  8. The Square, London (8)
  9. Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucestershire (8)
  10. The Ledbury, London (8)
  11. Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Tayside (8)
  12. Midsummer House, Cambridgeshire (8)
  13. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxfordshire (8)
  14. The French, Manchester (8)
  15. Le Gavroche, London (8)
  16. Whatley Manor, The Dining Room, Wiltshire (8)
  17. Fraiche, Merseyside (8)
  18. André Garrett at Cliveden, Berkshire (7)
  19. Fera at Claridges, London (7)
  20. Marcus, London (7)
  21. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London (7)
  22. The Kitchin, Edinburgh (7)
  23. The Waterside Inn, Berkshire (7)
  24. Pied-à-Terre, London (7)
  25. Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London (7)
  26. Michael Wignall at the Latymer, Surrey (7)
  27. Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh (7)
  28. Artichoke, Buckinghamshire (7)
  29. Fischer’s Baslow Hall, Derbyshire (7)
  30. Restaurant James Sommerin, Glamorgan (7)
  31. The Peat Inn, Fife (7)
  32. Murano, London (7)
  33. Paul Ainsworth at No. 6, Cornwall (7)
  34. Gidleigh Park, Devon (7)
  35. Hedone, London (7)
  36. Hambleton Hall, Rutland (7)
  37. Restaurant Story, London (7)
  38. The Pass, West Sussex (7)
  39. Casamia, Bristol (7)
  40. Ynyshir Hall, Powys (7)
  41. Freemasons at Wiswell, Lancashire (7)
  42. Hélène Darroze at the Connaught, London (6)
  43. The Hand & Flowers, Buckinghamshire (6)
  44. Yorke Arms, Ramsgill, Yorkshire (6)
  45. Paris House, Bedfordshire (6)
  46. Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire (6)
  47. The Raby Hunt, Durham (6)
  48. Chiltern Firehouse, London (6)
  49. Northcote, Lancashire (6)
  50. The Clove Club, London (6)

>>> Read more about the Good Food Guide 2016 

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Editor 27th August 2014

Good Food Guide 2015 announce top 50 restaurants