Best Local Restaurant

From the Highlands to Hertfordshire, our regional winners showcase the hidden gems already winning over diners in Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants 2026.

Tucked away in the Ribble Valley, family-run trattoria La Locanda has built a loyal following with authentic regional Italian cooking, heartfelt hospitality and an unwavering commitment to doing things the right way. GFG reviewer Clarissa Hyman tells us why it simply had to be the winner of Good Food Guide’s Best Local Restaurants 2026…

Good Food Guide owner Adam Hyman tells us why this year’s 100 Best Local Restaurants campaign is about more than just finding great places to eat…

We've been reading through thousands of your nominations on the hunt for Britain’s Best Local Restaurants 2026 in partnership with Square. Here’s a sneak peek at the restaurants currently leading the charge, but with nominations still open until 20 April, the competition is far from over. Nominate your favourite local restaurant here. Tonka Hastings, East Sussex Soi 1268 Stirchley, ...

As the engines fire up for our 16th annual search for Britain’s greatest local restaurants, we offer some guidance on what makes a worthy winner. Fresh, seasonally driven cooking is essential but what are gives our worthy winners the X-factor? Here are six signs to look out for.

Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants in partnership with Square is back for 2026 and we need your help to find the very best local, independent restaurants across the country. A Best Local Restaurant is likely to be a casual kind of place, with excellent cooking using local suppliers and a brilliantly warm welcome for whoever walks through the door. It’s the kind ...

In partnership with Square, Good Food Guide is calling on food lovers across the country to champion the neighbourhood restaurants that truly deserve their moment in the spotlight. Every community has that one go-to place. The restaurant where the welcome is as good as the food. Where the staff remember your name (and often your order!), where the atmosphere feels ...

The search for our 100 Best Local Restaurants is back for 2026 Now in its 16th year, and in partnership with Square, we're delighted to announce that the search to celebrate the best of local, independent dining is back.  Nominations open on Monday 9th March when we'll be calling on the British dining public to vote for their ...

Long Friday in Jesmond, Newcastle received the award for Best Local Restaurant in Yorkshire and the North East in this year’s list. The generous, down-to-earth cooking that defines this much-loved local restaurant inspired owner Anna Hedworth’s cookbook, Service. Here she shares one of her most loved recipes from it. On a Saturday afternoon we stuff chickens for a Sunday. We ...

Our winner of Best Local Restaurant in the North West this year is a homely little Italian trattoria, tucked away in an unlikely corner of a Prestwich industrial estate. Since opening in 2014, owner, baker and barista Nico Pasquali has been delivering faultlessly authentic and delicious flavours of Italy, to a famously uncompromising standard. Read on for his unbreakable rules ...