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Restaurant awards
- London's Satan's Whiskers is back at No 1 of the Top 50 Cocktail Bars for 2025
The cocktail shakers will be out in force in Bethnal Green tonight with the news that local bar Satan's Whiskers has topped the UK's Top 50 Cocktail Bars list once again. The bar has managed the top spot twice before, and is back again in pole position having edged out last year's winner Scofield's in Manchester.
For a second year running, the capital was also home to the highest new entry - Dram, the whisky
... - Here are the London restaurants who won a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025
Every year, before the main stars are announced, Michelin usually reveals the Bib Gourmands a few days or more in advance. But this year, for some reason that we can't fathom, the guide didn't really announce them at all. Instead, at the awards event, they revealed how many new Bibs they had awarded and seemed to want the audience to applaud the number without saying who
... - Osip gets the top gong for Best UK restaurant at the Good Food Guide Awards 2025
The UK's restaurant awards season is in full swing. We've just had the Top 50 Gastropubs and Michelin is next week but in the meantime we have the Good Food Guide Awards for 2025 to
... - UK's Top 50 Gastropubs announced - Unruly Pig at no 1, The Devonshire straight in at no 2
The first big awards of the 2025 season are here as the Top 50 UK Gastropubs list has been revealed. For the second year in a row (and its third time in total), Suffolk pub The Unruly Pig has claimed the top spot. We visited The Unruly Pig last year and can definitely see what all the fuss is about -
... - When are the Michelin 2025 stars being announced for London, the UK and Ireland?
It's nearly time for the main restaurant awards of the season to be announced. Find out when the 2025 Michelin stars for London and the UK are being announced - and what to expect.
- Readers' vote results - your favourite new restaurants of the year
The votes have been counted so, following our own best new opening of 2024, here's who you think came top...
- The 2024 Hot Dinners Awards - the very best of eating and drinking in London
It's that time of the year when we look back at all the meals (and drinks) of the year and pick our favourites. Here's our full rundown of the places, dishes and drinks we thought were really remarkable in 2024.
- Vote for your favourite new restaurant of 2024 and win afternoon tea at Harrods
We want to hear your thoughts on eating out in London this year.
- Five UK bars make the World's 50 Best Bars 2024 list while Mexico City comes top
Earlier this year, we had the Top 50 Cocktails Bars, which covered the UK and now we're onto the world with the reveal of the World's 50 Best Bars. The UK does considerably better in these awards than the World's 50 Best Restaurants, taking five places on the list (the
... - Michelin announces its new hotel keys awards and London does very well
Last year the Michelin Guide announced it was starting a whole new award category for hotels. In the same way that a Michelin star gave you an idea on whether a restaurant was worth going to, the Michelin key would hopefully do the same for hotels.
So far, keys have been announced for Japan, Italy, Spain, France and the US. Today, it was the turn of the UK and
... - Gordon Ramsay's Restaurant 1890 at The Savoy gets 4 AA rosettes at the AA Hospitality Awards 2024
They must be pouring out the Champagne with breakfast this morning at The Savoy, celebrating the news that the hotel's high-end restaurant Restaurant 1890 by Gordon Ramsay was the only London establishment to be raised to four rosettes status by the AA this year. It's a big deal to get to this level. There are only nine other London restaurants with four rosettes, and one of those is another Ramsay restaurant,
... - Three London hotels make the World's 50 Best Hotels 2024 list
Right now London appears to be having a moment when it comes to luxury hotels. Over the past year or so we've had a slew of high end establishments opening their doors to guests including the Peninsula London, The Emory and Raffles London at The OWO. Now one of that new band has made it onto the list celebrating the most amazing hotels in the world.
Last night the 2024 list of The World’s 50 Best Hotels was announced at a
... - The Ledbury voted best in the UK at the 2024 National Restaurant Awards (plus see the full top 100)
One of the biggest awards shows for UK restaurants took place last night, where the 2024 National Restaurant Awards revealed its list of the top 100 restaurants in the UK.
It was a big night for The Ledbury which managed to grab the top slot for the first time since its big post-Covid revamp. It
... - The World's 50 Best Restaurants announce the 51-100 list for 2024 with Mountain a new entry for London
Two weeks ahead of the announcement of this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list comes the release of the lower part of the list. Managing to get your restaurant into Numbers 51-100 is still a massive achievement of course and this year London has five restaurants in this section.
It's great news in particular for Soho restaurant Mountain which is a brand new entry this year, coming in at 94.
... - Fortnum's honour The Hairy Bikers and Rick Stein at their annual food and drink awards
It's always one of our favourite parties to go to each year and last night's bash by Fortnum's at The Royal Exchange was no different. The party was held to announce the famous food shop's annual Food and Drink Awards, celebrating the UK's writers, photographers and content creators.
Going home with gongs last night were the Financial Times restaurant critic Tim Hayward, writer and expert on Chinese
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