From a simple country restaurant or French bistro to pub classics, you really don’t have to rely on swanky restaurants to celebrate the best of the country’s food scene. Here we shine the spotlight on past Best Local Restaurant award winners who have established a gold standard for cooking with ......
The Brazilian chef Rafael Cagali is opening a second restaurant, Elis, in Bethnal Green this autumn, building on the success of his two-star restaurant Da Terra.
A former editor of the Good Food Guide once defined everybody’s favourite restaurant as 'the one where they know you'. To walk in and be greeted by name, before anybody has glanced at the on-screen booking data, is to be reminded of the restaurant’s primeval role of restoring the spirits, a task equally as important as feeding and sustaining the body. Come in, how are you? Awful weather. Did you have trouble parking? Let me take your coats. Stuart Walton has eaten in an extraordinary range of restaurants - he explains why he couldn’t agree more.
The Nigerian tapas restaurant Chuku’s has launched a six-week campaign to save it from closure. The restaurant, in Tottenham, opened in 2020 to rave reviews, but successive lockdowns and the cacophony of other challenges over the last two years have left the venue in need of support.
Perhaps the most famous seafood restaurant in Britain first appeared in The Good Food Guide in 1981, although, as the Guide noted in 1986: ‘It has taken 11 years for the people around Padstow to discover the restaurant – now it is difficult to get a table and there are plans to expand.’ Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, these excerpts from The Good Food Guide archives chart the journey of the 'Padstein' phenomenon.
