The Good Food Guide's top 50 restaurants

31 August 2012
The Good Food Guide's top 50 restaurants

Last week, the Good Food Guide 2013 named the top 50 restaurants in the country, according to its cooking score, which is marked out of 10. This week we publish the full list of all 50, which are spread widely throughout the UK

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Number
Name
Town, County
Score
Movement
1
The Fat Duck
Bray, Berkshire
10 out of 10
no change
2
L'Enclume
Cartmel, Cumbria
10
up from 9/10
3
Restaurant Sat Bains
Nottingham
9
no change
4
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
London
9
no change
5
Restaurant Nathan Outlaw
Rock, Cornwall
9
up from 8/10
6
Pollen Street Social
London
9
up from 8/10, up from 8th place
7
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons
Great Milton, Oxfordshire
8
down from 6th place
8
Hibiscus
London
8
up from 9th place
9
The Square
London
8
up from 10th place
10
The Ledbury
London
8
up from 17th place
11
Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley
London
8
down from 7th place
12
Le Champignon Sauvage
Cheltenham
8
down from 11th place
13
Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
8
down from 12th place
14
Le Gavroche
London
8
no change
15
Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester
London
8
no change
16
Whatley Manor, The Dining Room
Malmesbury, Wiltshire
8
down from 13th place
17
The Waterside Inn
Bray, Berkshire
7
up from 18th place
18
Midsummer House
Cambridge
7
up from 21st place
19
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
London
7
no change
20
Pied a Terre
London
7
new entry in the top 50
21
The Kitchin
Edinburgh
7
up from 6/10, up from 35th place
22
Murano
London
7
no change
23
Restaurant Martin Wishart
Edinburgh
7
down from 8/10, down from 16th place
24
Gidleigh Park
Chagford, Devon
7
up from 25th place
25
Fraiche
Oxton, Wirral
7
down from 24th place
26
Robert Thompson at the Hambrough
Ventnor, Isle of Wight
7
down from 20th place
27
The Crown at Whitebrook
Whitebrook, Gwent
7
up from 28th place
28
The Pass at South Lodge hotel
Horsham, West Sussex
7
up from 29th place
29
Michael Wignall at the Latymer, Pennyhill Park
Bagshot, Surrey
7
up from 30th place
30
Fischer's Baslow Hall
Baslow, Derbyshire
7
down from 27th place
31
Hambleton Hall
Rutland, Leicestershire
7
no change
32
The Peat Inn
Near St Andrews, Fife
7
new entry in the top 50
33
Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles
Auchterarder, Perthshire
7
no change
34
The Old Vicarage
Ridgeway, Sheffield
7
down from 32nd place
35
The Artichoke
Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
7
up from 37th place
36
The Hand & Flowers
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
6
up from 40th place
37
Purnell's
Birmingham
6
up from 38th place
38
Tyddyn Llan
Llandrillo, Denbighshire
6
down from 36th place
39
Mr Underhill's
Ludlow, Shropshire
6
no change
40
Bohemia
St Helier, Jersey
6
down from 7/10, down from 26th place
41
The Sportsman
Seasalter, Kent
6
up from 44th place
42
The Creel
Orkney
6
up from 45th place
43
Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor
Chester, Cheshire
6
no change
44
The Yorke Arms
Ramsgill, North Yorkshire
6
up from 47th place
45
The Royal Oak
Paley Street, Berkshire
6
up from 49th place
46
Galvin La Chapelle
London
6
up from 50th placee
47
Paul Ainsworth at No 6
Padstow, Cornwall
6
new entry in the top 50
48
The Box Tree
Ilkley, West Yorkshire
6
new entry in the top 50
49
Castle Terrace
Edinburgh
6
new entry in the top 50
50
Tuddenham Mill
Tuddenham, Suffolk
6
new entry in the top 50
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