Editorial

Welcome to The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants 2025

Best Local Restaurant in London 2025Ida Queen’s Park, London ‘Everything a neighbourhood restaurant should be’  A refreshing escape from the capital’s new openings circuit, our London champion is a time-honoured heartwinner. Opened in 2007 by writer Simonetta Wenkert and her IT engineer husband Avi, their children have grown up with the restaurant and now ...

Best Local Restaurant South East Regional & Overall Winner 2025Lucky Lychee Winchester, Hampshire ‘One of the best Malaysian meals I have eaten in the UK’  Lucky Lychee owners James Harris & Nicole Yeoh Restaurant-loving husband-and-wife team James Harris and Nicole Yeoh started Lucky Lychee as a humble market stall in 2020 to fill ...

Best Local Restaurant South West 2025Counter Culture Newquay, Cornwall ‘It takes you away from where you are, an escape to a back street of Barcelona or Lisbon’ Chef Ben Harrison, Counter Culture Basque meets British at this year’s South West standout: a stripped-back bar and restaurant in Newquay, fizzing with energy and contributing ...

Best Local Restaurant in Wales 2025Paternoster Farm Hundleton, Pembrokeshire ‘I couldn't name somewhere I'd rather eat’  Paternoster Farm owner, Michelle Evans A long-held favourite of Good Food Guide readers, this outpost of exceptional cooking on a family farm in Pembrokeshire shone brightest among the stars of the 2025 field. Divorce lawyer turned chef ...

Best Local Restaurant in Scotland 2025Redwood Wines Dunkeld, Perthshire & Kinross ‘We can't believe Dunkeld has such a fantastic little place like this’  Redwood Wines owners Morgwn and Roseanna Preston-Jones Redwood Wines is everything a local restaurant should be: warm, welcoming, and quietly exceptional. Run by husband-and-wife team Roseanna and Morgwn Preston-Jones (she’s ...

Best Local Restaurant in Yorkshire & the North East 2025Long Friday Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear ‘A sense of belonging’  Anna Hedworth, owner of Long Friday ‘I'd consider moving house if it meant having this place as my local, ’ wrote our inspector after having one of their most enjoyable meals of ...

Best Local Restaurant in theNorth West 2025Lupo Prestwich, Greater Manchester ‘You’re made to feel part of the family’  This homely little Italian trattoria, hidden in an unlikely corner of a Prestwich industrial estate, has gone from strength to strength since opening in 2014, offering an authentic and downright delicious taste of Rome. ‘You’re made to feel ...

Best Local Restaurant Central & East of England 2025Fino Cromer, Norfolk ‘It’s putting Cromer on the map’  There’s a fine art to the mix of approachability and cosmopolitan sense of occasion found at Cromer newcomer Fino. Stop by for a generous lunch and glass of wine for just £15, or go all out on ...

Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Maria Bradford learned to cook at the age of nine alongside her mother and grandmother. Having started out in accountancy, Bradford switched career path, founding Shwen Shwen (the name comes from the Krio word for ‘fancy’), her catering company, supper club and online store in 2017. Now she has opened the doors to her ...