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
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.
Best Local Restaurant: Central & East of England
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.
Best Local Restaurant: London
Mambow
Clapton
Abby Lee’s ever-changing line up of Malaysian dishes deliver thrilling flavour and in always-buzzy smash hit neighbourhood restaurant.
Best Local Restaurant:
North West
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.
Best Local Restaurant:
Scotland
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
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.
Best Local Restaurant:
South West
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
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.
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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