From escargot and rillettes de porc to confit de canard and steak frites, here are some of the Good Food Guide’s favourite authentic French restaurants in the UK.
It must be the perfect country inn: an 18th-century former farmhouse of mellow stone, set in a beautiful, wooded valley, in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, four miles from Rievaulx Abbey and bang opposite the 12th century Cistercian, Byland Abbey. Jill Turton takes a first look at The Abbey Inn, Byland.
Expect Jersey oysters with sorrel and cucumber, chancre (brown) crab crumpets with smoked butter hollandaise, and wood-roasted native greens with burnt garlic and garum when Pêtchi opens this week in St Helier. The grill restaurant and wine bar is a second venture for Great British Menu 2020 finalist and Jersey-born chef Joe Baker, and his wife Charlotte, who previously ran Number 10 restaurant, also in St Helier, which closed earlier this year.
Devotees of Exceptional-rated Midlands restaurant Carters of Moseley will find the restaurant and its team in the Cotswold countryside this summer. Carters at Westlands will run from July 19th in a glasshouse at Westlands, the Evesham-based growers of herbs and edible flowers who are long-standing suppliers to the restaurant.
