News Published 02 April 2025
News bites | Wednesday 2 April 2025
The latest news from The Good Food Guide.
Best Local Restaurant Published 02 April 2025
Best Local Restaurants 2025: the frontrunners
We've been reading through thousands of your nominations on the hunt for Britain’s Best Local Restaurants 2025 in partnership with Square. Here’s a sneak peek at the restaurants currently leading the charge, but with nominations still open until Wednesday 16th April, the competition is far from over. Nominate your favourite local restaurant here. Ember Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Cinder St John’s ...
News Published 01 April 2025
New Restaurant Openings in 2025
Keeping your finger on the pulse? If you've visited any of the new openings below, let us know what you think by sending us your review. Restaurants opening this month | Restaurant openings this year | Restaurants opening next yearRestaurants opened in 2025: January | February | March Restaurants opening in April 2025 Bangkok Diners Club Edinburgh Castle in Ancoats welcomes ...
Interview Published 31 March 2025
Cereal: the making of a radically rural Scottish bakery
At the end of summer 2024, British Chinese baker Wing Mon Cheung and her partner Niall Furlong packed their belongings into the back of a van and set out from Bath. Journeying north for 625 miles would take them to the tiny settlement of Tongue on the north coast of Scotland, a wildly remote location to set up their very ...





Feature Published 27 March 2025
To eat: Longstraw Bakery's recipe for wholemeal chocolate chip cookies
Working directly with Somerset farmers through the South West Grain network, James Cartwright and Frederica Bullough have been serving up the model of an accessible, sustainable food system alongside their delicious bakes since 2022. Here is their chocolate chip cookie recipe.
News Published 26 March 2025
News bites | Wednesday 26 March 2025
The latest news from The Good Food Guide.
Britains best Published 24 March 2025
Britain's Best Bakeries 2025
Want to get a flavour of Britain’s best bites? Our advice: head to a bakery. In celebration of Britain’s modern baking boom, we’ve travelled hundreds of miles in search of sensational Danish pastries, fresh, flaky croissants and full-flavoured loaves to bring you The Good Food Guide’s Best Bakeries 2025. From a makeshift industrial unit in Devon to a radically remote destination ...
Best Local Restaurant Published 21 March 2025
To eat: Higher Ground's recipe for an Isle of Mull cheddar tart
Best Local Restaurant Higher Ground puts British produce at the forefront. Their cheddar tart has been a mainstay of the menu since they opened, and this one uses a Scottish cheddar from the Isle of Mull.





Feature Published 21 March 2025
Unreserved: Want to recapture the ‘lockdown spirit’? Get to your best local restaurant, says Jimi Famurewa
Most restaurant critics will be familiar with the profession’s equivalent of a bat-signal. I do not mean this in the literal sense of a spot-lit logo in the night sky. No, I am talking about the digital message flares that those of us in the professional gluttony game soon grow accustomed to receiving: an unsolicited tip-off about an under-the-radar ...
News Published 19 March 2025
News bites | Wednesday 19 March 2025
The latest news from The Good Food Guide.