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The Top 20 restaurant wine lists
The Good Food Guide recommends 20 restaurants across the UK for notable wine lists, with the overall winner awarded to Fraiche in Oxted, Merseyside. The mark of a good wine list, according to the guide, is a conscientious eye to the best growers, comprehensive presentation (with or without tasting notes) and most importantly of all, good value.
The top 20 wine lists are:
London
• Chez Bruce, Wandsworth
• La Trompette, Chiswick
• Odette’s, Primrose Hill
• Pied-à-Terre, Fitzrovia
• Ransome’s Dock, Battersea
• Rex Whistler Restaurant at Tate Britain, Westminster
England
• Crown Hotel, Southwold, Suffolk
• Holbeck Ghyll, Windermere, Cumbria
• The Horn of Plenty, Gulworthy, Devon
• The Old Vicarage, Ridgeway, Derbyshire
• Ramsoms, Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester
• Sir Charles Napier, Chinnor, Oxfordshire
Scotland
• Kinloch House Hotel, Blairgowrie, Tayside
• Ubiquitous Chip, Glasgow
• Valvona & Crolla Caffè Bar, Edinburgh
Wales
• The Crown at Whitebrook, Whitebrook, Ghent
• Fairyhill, Reynoldston, Glamorgan
• Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, North-East Wales
Northern Ireland
• Cayenne, Belfast
Source: The Good Food Guide 2010