The days of numbered lists are over. After 15 years of publishing top rankings, The Good Food Guide Awards 2024 supported by Resy presents a line up of restaurants leading in their field and the 39 Exceptional and World Class restaurants that deliver perfection at every service.
Each restaurant has been carefully and anonymously inspected to earn their place here and we wholeheartedly recommend every one of them. We urge you to dip in, read the reviews and work out, according to your taste, which will be your favourite? In 2024, that’s how you choose a restaurant.
Jump to: Most Exciting Food Destination | Best Front Row Seat | Drinks List Of The Year | Best Farm To Table | Chef To Watch | Best New Restaurant | Restaurant Of The Year | Exceptional | World Class
Most Exciting Food Destination
In the rural heart of North Yorkshire, among forested hills, farmland, pretty villages and crumbled abbeys, you’ll find Helmsley and the Howardian Hills. Over the years the area has become richly populated with restaurants: Tommy Banks’ Black Swan at Oldstead joining The Star at Harome to deliver nationally notable dining destinations. In the past 12 months, we’ve seen the opening of the highly impressive Myse in Hovingham and a brilliant pub from Tommy Banks - The Abbey Inn at Byland - among many others, all of which are within a five-mile radius of Helmsley and in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Helmsley & the Howardian Hills
Best Front Row Seat
Shortlisted: Aulis London, London; Barrafina Dean Street, London; Behind, London; Harrods Dining Hall, London; The Sea, The Sea Chef’s Table, London.
The Sea, The Sea Chef's Table
Drinks List Of The Year
Shortlisted: Allium at Askham Hall, Cumbria; Furna, Brighton; Noble Rot, London; The Kitchin, Edinburgh.
Furna
Best Farm To Table
Shortlisted: Coombeshead Farm, Cornwall; Crocadon, Cornwall; Osip, Somerset; Our Farm, Cumbria; The Goods Shed, Kent; The Small Holding, Kent.
Our Farm
Read more about Our Farm and read our reviews of Simon Rogan's restaurants: L'Enclume, Rogan & Co, Henrock & Aulis London
Chef To Watch
Shortlisted: James Carn - Lark, Suffolk; Max Coen - Dorian, London; Kasia Piątkowska - Tropea, Birmingham; Rob Sachdev - Upstairs at Landrace, Bath; Wesley Smalley - Seasonality, Maidenhead; Jamie Smart - Cadet, London.
James Carn
Best New Restaurant
Shortlisted: Dorian, London; Higher Ground, Manchester; Lark, Suffolk; Mountain, London; Mýse, North Yorkshire; Noble Rot Mayfair, London; The Abbey Inn, North Yorkshire.
Mountain
Restaurant Of The Year
Shortlisted: L’Enclume, Cumbria; Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Oxfordshire; Pine, Northumberland; The Sportsman, Kent; Ynyshir, Wales.
