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In good restaurants you’ll be made to feel at home – not lucky to be there

From new-wave culinary stars to top chefs downsizing to intimate settings, Good Food Guide editor Chloë Hamilton picks her top six new openings to be excited about in 2026.

When The Reliance closed in Leeds, it left a gap in the form of a solid, neighbourhood, everyone-welcome restaurant equalled by excellent cooking. It’s early days yet, but Bavette, a French bistro from Sandy Jarvis and Clément Cousin in the suburb of Horsforth, looks like it will comfortably fill the brief.

In celebration of Jane Austen’s 250-year anniversary, Stuart Walton digests the significance of food in her novels and letters and picks out five top spots for eating out along the Austen trail.