Editorial
News Published 09 January 2025
News bites | 8th January 2025
The latest news from The Good Food Guide.
The Good Food Guide Awards Published 08 January 2025
Shortlist revealed for The Good Food Guide Awards 2025
The date of The Good Food Guide Awards 2025, in partnership with OpenTable, is approaching. With the envelopes now sealed on the winners, we’re delighted to announce the star-studded shortlist.
Local Guide Published 02 January 2025
A chef's guide: where to eat in and around Norwich
Norfolk’s county town makes for a perfect winter weekend escape. The handsome cathedral city is packed with cultural and historic riches and its cobbled lanes are full of independent charm. It’s made for exploring on foot, and that requires fuel. Who better than these Norwich-based chefs to guide you round the city’s deliciously varied food and drink scene?
Local Guide Published 02 January 2025
A chef's guide: where to eat in and around Oxford
Nobody knows an area’s food better than the chefs and restaurateurs who work there and shape the local culinary scene daily. We asked some to share tips for delicious eating out in and around Oxford.
Where to eat Published 22 December 2024
Best Thai restaurants in London
London’s Thai dining scene is more dynamic than ever, blending regional specialities, fragrant spices, and open-flame cooking with the capital’s cosmopolitan flair. From hidden corners of Shoreditch to the bustle of Soho, these kitchens deftly balance time-honoured techniques with quality British produce, producing punchy, vibrant dishes that go far beyond the familiar green curries and pad ThaisHere is our pick of ...
Feature Published 19 December 2024
Unreserved: 2024 in review with Jimi Famurewa
The restaurant year generally ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but a prolonged, flailing frenzy. Sudden closures and rush-released openings offer a mixed picture of a twitchy industry; dining rooms roar and throb with paper-hatted Christmas party inebriates, blundering into storage cupboards on the way to the loos; WhatsApp groups called things like ‘Festive Dinner’ become inadvertent performance ...
Feature Published 19 December 2024
The Good Food Guide inspectors' meals of the year, 2024
Our Good Food Guide inspectors are a talented crew, stationed across Britain from the Highlands to Hereford, sending word on the most promising places to eat. Some have been inspecting for the Guide since the 90s, while others are young, hungry and delivering a fresh perspective. Regardless of age, their discerning eye and sharpness of appetite is universal. When they're ...
Feature Published 19 December 2024
A first look at Row on 5: reimagining fine dining
The grand, formal style of dining has been in retreat for years and no chef understands this better than Jason Atherton. Row on 5 is his reimagining of the genre, an entirely new approach to fine dining.
Feature Published 18 December 2024
Tommy Banks' five top tips for the perfect Christmas lunch
From parboiling potatoes on Christmas Eve to getting the rise right on the Yorkshires, Tommy Banks shares his tips for cooking Christmas dinner like a top chef.
Feature Published 17 December 2024
A recipe for a Best Local Restaurant: a Good Food Guide Lunch with Bavette
Saturday 18 January 2025 Over lunch, listen to the husband and husband team in conversation with the Guide’s co-editor Chloë Hamilton discussing their careers in restaurants and why they ended up opening a bistro in Horsforth on the outskirts of Leeds. From hosting 90th birthday parties to importing wine, find out what makes Bavette the model of a perfect local ...