An unlikely combination of novelist and restaurateur, Simonetta Wenkert turned her pen to recording the story of Ida, from its roots in Italy’s Marche region, to flinging open the doors in 2007 and the many highs and lows that followed over nearly two decades in business. It’s a beautifully ......
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 ......
As our search for Britain’s best local restaurants returns for a 15th year, we take a look at the common factors that unite the strongest contenders for the list.
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 ......
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 ......
