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 ......
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 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.
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.
In 2010, on an ordinary road in an ordinary suburb of Birmingham, a 32-seat restaurant was opened by a young couple who wanted to create the sort of place they would like to eat at themselves. Brad and Holly Carter made Carters of Moseley a down-to-earth, relaxed and friendly restaurant, a place that local people could walk to.
