Editorial

Restaurant lovers turned chef and restaurateur, Nicole Yeoh and James Harris have been firing up Winchester’s food scene since setting out their market stall in 2020. Five years down the line, they’ve been crowned The Good Food Guide’s Best Local Restaurant, in partnership with Square, with loyal fans travelling from as far as Bedfordshire for a flavour of what ...

Restaurant lovers turned chef and restaurateur, Nicole Yeoh and James Harris have been firing up Winchester’s food scene since setting out their market stall in 2020. Five years down the line, they’ve been crowned The Good Food Guide’s Best Local Restaurant 2025, in partnership with Square. Here is Nicole’s recipe for bavette satay, with a wine pairing from James.  Satay ...

Manchester is a multicultural melting pot of cuisines, from the Curry Mile to Chinatown and everything in between. The newest member of The Good Food Guide team and Manchester local, Phoebe Patrick, takes us on her tour of the places not to miss.

Welcome to The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants 2025

Best Local Restaurant in London 2025Ida Queen’s Park, London ‘Everything a neighbourhood restaurant should be’  A refreshing escape from the capital’s new openings circuit, our London champion is a time-honoured heartwinner. Opened in 2007 by writer Simonetta Wenkert and her IT engineer husband Avi, their children have grown up with the restaurant and now ...

Best Local Restaurant South East Regional & Overall Winner 2025Lucky Lychee Winchester, Hampshire ‘One of the best Malaysian meals I have eaten in the UK’  Lucky Lychee owners James Harris & Nicole Yeoh Restaurant-loving husband-and-wife team James Harris and Nicole Yeoh started Lucky Lychee as a humble market stall in 2020 to fill ...

Best Local Restaurant South West 2025Counter Culture Newquay, Cornwall ‘It takes you away from where you are, an escape to a back street of Barcelona or Lisbon’ Chef Ben Harrison, Counter Culture Basque meets British at this year’s South West standout: a stripped-back bar and restaurant in Newquay, fizzing with energy and contributing ...

Best Local Restaurant in Wales 2025Paternoster Farm Hundleton, Pembrokeshire ‘I couldn't name somewhere I'd rather eat’  Paternoster Farm owner, Michelle Evans A long-held favourite of Good Food Guide readers, this outpost of exceptional cooking on a family farm in Pembrokeshire shone brightest among the stars of the 2025 field. Divorce lawyer turned chef ...

Best Local Restaurant in Scotland 2025Redwood Wines Dunkeld, Perthshire & Kinross ‘We can't believe Dunkeld has such a fantastic little place like this’  Redwood Wines owners Morgwn and Roseanna Preston-Jones Redwood Wines is everything a local restaurant should be: warm, welcoming, and quietly exceptional. Run by husband-and-wife team Roseanna and Morgwn Preston-Jones (she’s ...

Best Local Restaurant in Yorkshire & the North East 2025Long Friday Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear ‘A sense of belonging’  Anna Hedworth, owner of Long Friday ‘I'd consider moving house if it meant having this place as my local, ’ wrote our inspector after having one of their most enjoyable meals of ...