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Best Local Restaurant

Britain’s 100 Best Local Restaurants 2024
Published 24 July 2024

The nominations have been collated and the inspection visits are complete, so we are proud to announce The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants of 2024.

You came out in force this year, casting an astonishing 60,000 nominations for your beloved bistros, brasseries, pubs and cafés. We, and our undercover inspectors, have been touring the country to ensure the list is made up of the best of their kind. Places that are home to extraordinary local creativity and talent, personal hospitality and genuine community spirit, and that are wonderfully affordable too.

Eating out locally has never been so diverse, so enjoyable, so satisfying. Let’s make sure it stays that way.

— Elizabeth Carter & Chloë Hamilton, co-editors of The Good Food Guide

The Good Food Guide's Best Local Restaurant 2024 winners


Central & East of England: Greyhound Inn – Pettistree
London: Mambow – Clapton
North East England: Bavette – Leeds [overall winner]
North West: Cibus – Levenshulme
Scotland: Fin & Grape – Edinburgh
South East: Med – Brighton
South West: North Street Kitchen – Fowey
Wales: Inn at the Sticks – Llansteffan

Best Local Restaurant

Manchester , Greater Manchester

Another Hand

Best Local Restaurant

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Bavette

Best Local Restaurant

Liverpool, Merseyside

Belzan

Best Local Restaurant

Norwich, Norfolk

Benoli

Best Local Restaurant

Beaminster, Dorset

Brassica

Best Local Restaurant

Brighouse, West Yorkshire

Brook's

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Valley, Isle of Anglesey

Catch 22

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Birmingham, West Midlands

Chapter

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Levenshulme, Greater Manchester

Cibus

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

Coin

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Chester, Cheshire

Covino

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Darley Abbey, Derbyshire

Darleys

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

St Austell , Cornwall

Edie's

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Edinburgh, Lothians

Fin & Grape

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey

Freckled Angel

Best Local Restaurant

Shepherd's Bush, London

Giulia

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Hull, East Yorkshire

Hearth

Best Local Restaurant

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Hern

Best Local Restaurant
GFG AWARD WINNER

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Lark

Best Local Restaurant

Edinburgh, East Lothian

Leftfield

Best Local Restaurant

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear

Long Friday

Best Local Restaurant

Clapton, London

Mambow

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Brighton, East Sussex

Med

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Margate, Kent

Mori Mori

Best Local Restaurant

South Gosforth, Tyne & Wear

Ophelia

Best Local Restaurant

Hove , East Sussex

Palmito

Best Local Restaurant

Maida Vale, London

Paulette

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Oxford, Oxfordshire

Pompette

Best Local Restaurant

Stoke Newington, London

Rubedo

Best Local Restaurant

Cirencester , Gloucestershire

Sam & Jak

Best Local Restaurant

Southborough, Kent

Tallow

Best Local Restaurant

Prestwich, Greater Manchester

The Pearl

Best Local Restaurant
MEMBER PERK

Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire

The Warren

Best Local Restaurant

Grasmere, Cumbria

The Yan

Best Local Restaurant

Birmingham, West Midlands

Tropea

Best Local Restaurant

Nantgaredig, Carmarthenshire

Y Polyn

Britain's Best Local Restaurant 2024

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Bavette

Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Overall & North East winner

Husband and husband team Sandy Jarvis and Clément Cousin have poured their heart and soul (and a lot of experience) into this pitch-perfect French bistro in the Leeds suburb of Horsforth. With the cooking as dazzling as the warm-hearted service, it’s our model of the perfect local restaurant.

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Best Local Restaurant: Central & East of England

Greyhound Inn, Pettistree, Suffolk
Will Orrock, owner and head chef Adam Spicer, Greyhound Inn, Pettistree, Central & East regional winner of The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024


Greyhound Inn

Pettistree, Suffolk

A welcome addition to the area’s informal pub-restaurant scene. Refreshingly ordinary, with nothing overtly fashionable - just candlelit tables, a cosy fire and absolutely delicious food.


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Best Local Restaurant: London

Mambow chef & owner, Abby Lee
Abby Lee, founder of Mambow, Clapton, London regional winner of The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024


Mambow

Clapton

Abby Lee’s ever-changing line up of Malaysian dishes deliver thrilling flavour and in always-buzzy smash hit neighbourhood restaurant.

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Best Local Restaurant:

North West

Cibus Owners Marco Bracchitta & Giorgio Fontana
Marco Bracchitta & Giorgio Fontana, owners of Cibus, Levenshulme, North West regional winner of The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024


Cibus

Levenshulme, Greater Manchester

Giorgio Fontana and Marco Bracchitta have created the Italian trattoria of your dreams with exceptionally delicious regional dishes and a welcome that makes you feel like family.


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Best Local Restaurant:

Scotland

Fin & Grape, Edinburgh
The Pass at Fin & Grape, Edinburgh, Scotland regional winner of The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024. Image: Natalie Holt Photography


Fin & Grape

Bruntsfield, Edinburgh

A genuine local, well away from the city’s tourist trail. With nothing more than a small, bright room, a dozen or so tables, a basement wine bar, it’s quite startling how good everything is.



Best Local Restaurant:

South East

Jack Southan & Will Dennard, Owners of Med
Jack Southan & Will Dennard, owners of Med, South East regional winner of The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024


Med

Brighton, East Sussex

Creative, fun and very reasonably priced, with warm, approachable service, local means magical at this properly eclectic restaurant just off the seafront. A real credit to Brighton.

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Best Local Restaurant:

South West

Hazel & Ethan Friskney-Bryer, North Street Kitchen
Hazel & Ethan Friskney-Bryer, owners of North Street Kitchen, South West regional winner of The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024


North Street Kitchen

Fowey, Cornwall

A new era has dawned on this charming former boatshed in Fowey. One defined by understated excellence and huge warmth from new owners Ethan and Hazel Friskney-Bryer.





Best Local Restaurant:

Wales

Co-founders and directors Teej & Tracy Sparks, head chefs Mel Fairman and Deb Neale and chef Liam Phillips from Inn at the Sticks, regional winner for Wales in The Good Food Guide's Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024


Inn at The Sticks

Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire

A proper village pub that infectiously welcomes drinkers and offers a Welsh sharing plates menu brimming with locally sourced ingredients. It also has a genuinely lovely line in hospitality.

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About The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants of 2024

The Good Food Guide has always celebrated eating out as one of life’s simple pleasures, and there’s nothing more pleasurable than a top-notch meal in your favourite local haunt – especially if you’re in good company. Familiarity is a priceless commodity, particularly when it is combined with inspired but gimmick-free cooking from a dedicated and passionate hands-on team.

All the establishments in our 2024 list of 100 Best Local Restaurants offer a winning combination of locally sourced seasonal produce, inestimable value for money, genuine personal warmth and an overriding sense of community. As independent enterprises, they are gastronomically and socially invaluable to their neighbourhoods and deserve all the support we can give them. Eating out locally has never been so diverse, so thrilling, so satisfying. Let’s make sure it stays that way.


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The Good Food Guide Best Local Restaurant Awards 2024 winners:
Overall winner & North East regional winner: Bavette in Leeds.
Central & East of England regional winner: Greyhound Inn in Pettistree.
London regional winner: Mambow in Clapton.
North West regional winner: Cibus in Levenshulme.
Scotland regional winner: Fin & Grape in Edinburgh.
South East regional winner: Med in Brighton.
South West regional winner: North Street Kitchen in Fowey.
Wales regional winner: Inn at the Sticks in Llansteffan.


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