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- 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
... - Mountain leads the London restaurants celebrating this year's Star Wine List awards
If you're mad into your wines and looking for a good restaurant wine list to work your way through then the reveal of this week's Star Wine lists for the UK is a good starting place.
The lists, which are a celebration of the best in the world, were particularly good news for Mountain in Soho which picked up two gold stars for Best Newcomer and Best Long List along with the big prize, The Grand Prix for best
... - La Dame de Pic leads the London restaurants celebrating with new AA rosettes for 2024
Last night in London brought another round of restaurant awards, showering praise on the city's eating establishments. This time it was the turn of the AA guide which released its annual distribution of AA rosettes.
Rosettes range from one to five, but it's the top two categories that we're most concerned with - think of them as the equivalent of your two and three Michelin stars. This year La Dame de Pic at
... - When are the Michelin 2024 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 2024 Michelin stars for London and the UK are being announced - and what to expect.
- Mountain and The Sportsman win best restaurant awards from The Good Food Guide 2024
Another year, another awards season and just before we get to next week's new Michelin stars, it's the turn of The Good Food Guide to unveil their gongs.
This year, there's been a bit of a shake-up at the guide, with their scoring rating being replaced and instead they'll be highlighting restaurants
... - The 2024 Michelin Bib Gourmands for London are announced
The Bib Gourmands are billed as being for slightly more affordable restaurants than your average Michelin fare, serving "good food at moderate prices". So with that in mind, here's who got a shiny new bib this year in London.
- The Unruly Pig tops Britain's gastropub list with Highgate's The Red Lion and Sun as London's top pub
The annual reveal of the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list always makes us want to close our laptops
... - The 2023 Hot Dinners Awards - the very best of eating and drinking in London
It's that time again - where we round up the very best of London's eating and drinking in the year that's almost done. Here's our complete run-down of the very best of 2023 - including the city's best new restaurant.
- L'enclume tops La Liste's 1000 best restaurants in the world
There were celebrations up in Cumbria yesterday as Simon Rogan's flagship restaurant L'enclume came in at no. 1 on La Liste's pick of the 1000 best restaurants in the world. L'Enclume tied for joint first place with a number of other restaurants, all with a final score of 99.50, including Le Bernardin in New York and Sushi Saito in Japan.
Other top-rating UK restaurants in the upper echelons of this year's list
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