Best Nordic Restaurants in the UK and Ireland

In total, there is 1 award winning Nordic restaurant in the UK and Ireland, based on the combined awards from the leading UK restaurant guides.

Were you expecting to see more Nordic restaurants listed? Remember, at Leading Restaurants we only list restaurants holding awards from major food guides in the UK and Ireland; that's less than 3% of all restaurants here.

The best Nordic restaurant in the UK and Ireland is West 10 in Sheffield (based on our unique combination of the leading UK restaurant guides) where head chef Scott Philliskirk serves up award winning Modern British, Nordic and Japanese influences Cuisine. West 10 currently holds 2 AA Rosettes.

There are currently no Nordic restaurants holding a Michelin Star in the UK and Ireland and indeed no restaurants serving Nordic cuisine at all listed in the Michelin Guide; perhaps the Michelin inspectors will expand their tastebuds soon!

There is currently a single listed AA Rosette Nordic restaurant in the UK and Ireland which holds 2 AA Rosettes.

The UKs appetite for Nordic cuisine has matured into something far more compelling than a fleeting dalliance with foraged herbs and minimalist plating. In London especially, the genre has found a confident footing, with restaurants such as Ekstedt at The Yard showcasing the smoky, wood fired precision of Swedish chef Niklas Ekstedt, whose theatrical yet disciplined approach feels wonderfully suited to the citys hunger for both craft and spectacle. Meanwhile, Aquavit London continues to channel a chic Scandinavian sensibility, pairing elegant smorrebrod with a kind of understated luxury that reminds diners why the Nordic aesthetic became a global shorthand for calm refinement in the first place. At the more rarefied end of the spectrum, Studio Frantzen at Harrods brings the glossy swagger of Bjorn Frantzen, the Swedish chef whose flagship restaurant in Stockholm holds three Michelin stars, to a setting already accustomed to conspicuous indulgence. It is a heady mix of Nordic restraint and Knightsbridge opulence, and a sign that Scandinavian cooking here is no longer content to play the humble outsider. If anything, the UKs Nordic dining scene now feels like a confident, fully fledged chapter in the countrys culinary story, one that continues to lure diners with the promise of clean flavours, elemental cooking, and a certain quietly seductive cool.