After a dazzling night of celebration at Theatre Royal Drury Lane for The Good Food Guide Awards 2025, in partnership with OpenTable, the trailblazing chefs and visionary restaurateurs have been crowned.
Informed by The Good Food Guide’s inspectors and selected by the editors, here are the winners in full. All of them showcasing excellence in hospitality and setting the benchmark for dining out in Britain in 2025.
Jump to: Restaurant of the Year | Best New Restaurant | Drinks List of the Year | Chef to Watch | Best Value Set Menu | The Russell Norman Award for Restaurateur of the Year | Most Beautiful Restaurant | Most Exciting Food Destination | Best Local Restaurant | Best Sunday Roast
Restaurant of the Year
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Osip
Brilliantly original and effortlessly cool, Merlin Labron-Johnson’s Osip has upped the stakes in its move to a striking and stylish new home outside Bruton. With a sense of place that leaps off the plate with a stunning clarity of flavour, this Restaurant of the Year is an understated masterclass and as fresh as they come.
Shortlisted for The Good Good Guide’s Restaurant of the Year 2025:
Restaurant Jericho, Leicestershire | St John, London | Opheem, Birmingham | The Ritz Restaurant, London
Best New Restaurant
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Skof
Pairing L’Enclume expertise with city cool, Tom Barnes’ arrival in Manchester brings new meaning to the concept of ‘levelling up’. The Lakeland-born chef’s cooking is complex and intelligent but delivered with a brilliant warmth and a firm sense that everyone is welcome, if you can get a table, that is.
Shortlisted for The Good Good Guide’s Best New Restaurant 2025:
Lyla, Edinburgh | Briar, Somerset | Row on 5, London | Albatross Death Cult, Birmingham | Native, Worcestershire
Drinks List of the Year
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Timberyard & Montrose
As one of Edinburgh’s most significant new openings of the past year, Montrose joins its sibling Timberyard to offer a brilliantly left-field drinks program. From a magnificent, compendious wine list to innovative bitters, liqueurs and vermouths all made in house, the two restaurants’ deliver an outstanding counterpart to the elegant cooking on offer.
read the review: Timberyard
Shortlisted for The Good Good Guide’s Drinks List of the Year 2025:
Kol & Fonda, London | Osip, Somerset | Cornus, London
Chef to Watch
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Kyu Jeong Jeon & Duncan Robertson
This immensely talented duo has reimagined Korean cuisine in Bristol, first with affordable, comforting hits at Bokman and now at Dongnae where Kyu and Duncan’s international experience delivers the skilled and sophisticated Korean food the way they serve it in the suburbs of Seoul.
Read The Reviews: Dongnae | BOKMAN
Shortlisted for The Good Good Guide’s Chef to Watch 2025:
Jake Dolin - Manteca, London | Elliot Hashtroudi - Camille, London | Sam Lomas - Briar, Somerset | Meedu Saad - Kiln, London | Maria Close - Rockliffe Hall, County Durham
Best Value Set Menu
The Devonshire
As the cost of eating out has shot up, offering diners value for money has never been more important. Not just a pilgrimage for Guinness drinkers, The Devonshire’s three quality courses of pub classics for under £30 is astonishing value, not just for central London but anywhere.
Shortlisted for The Good Good Guide’s Best Value Set Menu 2025:
Josephine Bouchon, London | The Palmerston, Edinburgh | Dilsk, Brighton | Pompette, Oxford | Wilsons, Bristol
The Russell Norman Award for Restaurateur of the Year
Created to honour the legacy of Russell Norman
Jason and Irha Atherton
Jason and Irha Atherton have demonstrated extraordinary energy launching five new restaurants in London in the space of just a few months. From compelling all-day dining to a Mayfair destination of international significance, their achievements are the culmination of a career’s worth of experience and ambition.
Read The Reviews: Row on 5 | MARY'S
Shortlisted for The Russell Norman Award for Restaurateur of the Year 2025:
David Carter- DCCO group | James Gummer, Olivier van Themsche & Phil Winser - Public House Group | Guirong Wei - Master Wei | Florence Mae Maglanoc - Maginhawa Group | Dom Hamdy - Ham Group | Scoop Restaurants
Most Beautiful Restaurant
The Dover
Designed by Milan-based architects Quincoces-Dragò & Partners, The Dover is a masterclass in mood-setting design. With golden-hued lighting, velvet accents, and an essential elegance that extends to the service it’s a restaurant that offers temporary escape to another world.
Shortlisted for The Good Good Guide’s Most Beautiful Restaurant 2025:
Grace & Savour, West Midlands | Hearth, Hampshire | The Park, London | Woven by Adam Smith, Berkshire | Wildflowers, London
Most Exciting Food Destination
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Edinburgh
With a succession of high-quality new openings over the past year, Edinburgh’s restaurant scene has been building energy and momentum to outpace any other British city. From simple yet sophisticated neighbourhood spots to game-changing fine dining from Stuart Ralston, the voracious appetite for eating out well in Edinburgh has been answered.
VIEW ALL EDINBURGH RESTAURANTS
Best Local Restaurant
Bavette
A great local restaurant is more than just a place to eat — it’s a cornerstone of its community, offering warmth, generosity, and consistently excellent cooking. This year’s winner, Bavette, captures that spirit perfectly, serving refined yet deeply comforting bistro classics in a welcoming, effortlessly charming setting.
Best Local Restaurant 2024 regional winners:
Central & East of England: Greyhound Inn – Pettistree
London: Mambow – Clapton
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 Sunday Roast
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The Abbey Inn
A Sunday roast at this handsome pub at Byland Abbey is nothing short of a proper feast. Rare-breed Berkshire pork and Herdwick lamb from owner Tommy Banks’ family farm in nearby Oldstead sets the tone for superb quality against a buzzing family friendly backdrop and top-tier Yorkshire hospitality. It’s the perfect all-rounder.
Best Sunday Roast 2024 category winners:
Best Group Dining: Blacklock Canary Wharf
Best Value: Lagom at Hackney Church Brew Co
Best Vegan: Shrub
Best Twist on a Classic: The Social Distortion
Jump to: Restaurant of the Year | Best New Restaurant | Drinks List of the Year | Chef to Watch | Best Value Set Menu | The Russell Norman Award for Restaurateur of the Year | Most Beautiful Restaurant | Most Exciting Food Destination | Best Local Restaurant | Best Sunday Roast
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