Our Best Local Restaurant list celebrates the places that are the beating heart of communities around Britain. Using reader nominations as a driving force, we inspected a great number of restaurants in Scotland to decide which ones deserved a place in the 100 Best Local Restaurants 2023. Some are old favourites, others are new to The Good Food Guide, all are brilliant places to eat.
As chefs and restaurateurs adapt to the ravaged new reality of shut doors, empty reservation books, and an uncertain future, many are firing up their stoves to safely cook meals for those that need them most
Many Glaswegians build food into their wider social plans and make eating out part of the event rather than necessarily the destination. As such there’s a wide range of options and a certain dynamism to what’s in favour at any point.
Pop-up restaurants have become one of the biggest trends in food in recent years, and many of them have gone the distance to become more permanent than perhaps they first planned.
Revolution isn’t the first word that springs to mind when considering North Norfolk. Wild, windswept beaches? Yes. Vast skies over wide expanses of salt marshes, populated only by seabirds? That too. But revolution amid the little coastal villages with their pebbled cottages and ancient churches? Hardly.
