Top 50 Places to Dine in the UK – Good Food Guide 2012 is out

The eagerly awaited annual publication of ‘The Good Food Guide 2012’ has issued its pre-emptive list of the top 50 restaurants in the UK ahead of the guide’s publication date on 08^th Sep 11.

It reveals an emerging market of the new elite, popular Chef mentors and many Gordon Ramsay protégés scoring high such Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social, from formerly Ramsay’s Maze, being named Best New Restaurant and Angela Hartnett being awarded Chef of the Year for her work at Murano which she purchased recently from Ramsay in October 2010.   Heston Blumenthal still rules supreme for the 4^th year in a row, topping the list as the only restaurant with a perfect 10 out of 10 score.

Elizabeth Carter, Consultant Editor of the Guide, said of the results: ‘Personally I am extremely excited by the surge this collective of chefs is showing on out top 10 rankings – whilst its impossible to pigeonhole them, each is devising quality dishes fusing classical skills and modern methods – it’s the vividness of the imagination they all display which is truly thrilling.’

The UK’s top restaurants including scores (out of 10 shown in brackets next to each entry) according to The Good Food Guide 2012

• Fat Duck, Bray Berkshire  (10/10)
• L’Enclume, Cumbria (9)
• Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham (9)
• Gordon Ramsay, Royal Hospital Road, London (9)
• Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall (8)
• Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Oxfordshire (8)
• Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, London (8)
• Pollen Street Social, London (8)
• Hibiscus, London (8)
• The Square, London (8)
• Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucestershire (8)
• Adam Simonds at Danesfield House, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (8)
• Whatley Manor, Wiltshire (8)
• Le Gavroche, London (8)
• Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London (8)
• Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh (8)
• The Ledbury, London (8)
• The Waterside Inn, Berkshire (7)
• Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London (7)
• Robert Thompson at the Hambrough, Isle of Wight (7)
• Midsummer House, Cambridge (7)
• Murano (7)
• John Campbell at Coworth Park, Berkshire (7)
• Fraiche, Merseyside (7)
• Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon (7)
• Bohemia, St. Helier, Jersey (7)
• Fisher’s Baslow Hall, Derbyshire (7)
• The Crown at Whitebrook, Wales (7)
• The Pass at South Lodge Hotel, Lower Beeding, West Sussex (7)
• Michael Wignall at the Latymer, Surrey (7)
• Hambleton Hall, Leicestershire (7)
• The Old Vicarage, Derbyshire (7)
• Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Scotland (7)
• Harry’s Place, Lincolnshire (7)
• The Kitchin, Edinburgh (6)
• Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, Wales (6)
• Artichoke, Amersham, Buckinghamshire (6)
• Purnell’s, Birmingham, West Midlands (6)
• Mr Underhill’s, Shropshire (6)
• The Hand & FLowers, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (6)
• Antony’s Leeds, Yorkshire (6)
• The Greenhouse, London (6)
• Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire (6)
• The Sportsman, Kent (6)
• The Creel, Orkney (6)
• Ramsons, Greater Manchester (6)
• The Yorke Arms, Yorkshire (6)
• Club Gascon, London (6)
• Royal Oak, Paley Street, Berkshire (6)
• Galvin La Chapelle, London (6) 

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