Best Restaurants in the UK and Ireland

Listed below are the Top 50 restaurants in the UK and Ireland. Our unique ranking system for leading restaurants factors the current awards from all the major UK and Ireland food guides, including The Michelin Guide, The AA Guide, The Good Food Guide and The Sunday Times Top 100.

#	Name	Location	AA	GF Guide
1	The Fat Duck	Bray		9/10 (5th in UK)
2	Restaurant Sat Bains	Nottingham		9/10 (4th in UK)
3	L'Enclume	Cartmel		10/10 (2nd in UK)
4	Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester	London		8/10 (21st in UK)
5	The Ledbury	London		8/10 (18th in UK)
6	The Waterside Inn	Bray		7/10 (34th in UK)
7	Restaurant Nathan Outlaw	Port Isaac		10/10 (1st in UK)
8	Marcus	London		8/10 (15th in UK)
9	Midsummer House	Cambridge		8/10 (20th in UK)
10	Casamia	Bristol		8/10 (10th in UK)
11	Sketch (Lecture Room and Library)	London		7/10 (24th in UK)
12	Dinner by Heston Blumenthal	London		8/10 (13th in UK)
13	Pollen Street Social	London		9/10 (3rd in UK)
14	Le Champignon Sauvage	Cheltenham		8/10 (16th in UK)
15	Gidleigh Park	Chagford		7/10 (45th in UK)
16	Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles	Auchterarder		8/10 (8th in UK)
17	Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons	Oxford		-
18	The Kitchin	Edinburgh		7/10 (23rd in UK)
19	The Greenhouse	London		7/10 (27th in UK)
20	Restaurant Story	London		7/10 (39th in UK)
21	Ynyshir	Machynlleth		8/10 (12th in UK)
22	Fraiche	Birkenhead		8/10 (14th in UK)
23	Le Gavroche	London		7/10 (46th in UK)
24	Helene Darroze at The Connaught	London		-
25	Bohemia	Jersey		8/10 (11th in UK)
26	Restaurant Gordon Ramsay	London	-	9/10 (6th in UK)
27	Paul Ainsworth at No. 6	Padstow		7/10 (32nd in UK)
28	Hedone	London		8/10 (7th in UK)
29	The Hand and Flowers	Marlow		-
30	Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud	Dublin		-
31	The Clove Club	London		-
32	Restaurant Martin Wishart	Edinburgh		7/10 (41st in UK)
33	The Ritz Restaurant	London		7/10 (28th in UK)
34	Hambleton Hall	Oakham		7/10 (47th in UK)
35	Murano	London		7/10 (48th in UK)
36	The Whitebrook	Monmouth		7/10 (49th in UK)
37	The Peat Inn	St Andrews		8/10 (22nd in UK)
38	Restaurant James Sommerin	Penarth		7/10 (35th in UK)
39	Simpsons	Birmingham		7/10 (40th in UK)
40	The Forest Side	Grasmere		7/10 (30th in UK)
41	The Five Fields	London		-
42	The Black Swan at Oldstead	York		-
43	Umu	London		-
44	Northcote	Blackburn		-
45	Morston Hall	Blakeney		-
46	The Sportsman	Whitstable		7/10 (42nd in UK)
47	Adam's	Birmingham		7/10 (43rd in UK)
48	The Man Behind The Curtain	Leeds		7/10 (50th in UK)
49	House of Tides	Newcastle Upon Tyne		-
50	Peel's Restaurant at Hampton Manor	Solihull		-

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