MOOR Hall in Aughton – just a short drive from Mid Cheshire - has been hailed as a “world class” restaurant in The Good Food Guide Awards 2024.

Gone are the days of numbered lists featuring destinations and venues ranked from one to 50.

Instead, the long-standing guide to dining out has announced a lineup of restaurants that blaze a trail in their field, delivering perfection at every service.

With four world class restaurants and 35 exceptional restaurants, the list is the perfect mix of top quality cuisine, high class service and outstanding customer experience.

Each restaurant has been carefully and anonymously inspected to earn their place on the list.

LEnclume

L'Enclume

Moor Hall in Aughton - the double Michelin starred venue headed by renowned chef Mark Birchall - is one of four restaurants hailed as “world class” together with Simon Rogan’s triple Michelin starred L’Enclume in Cartmel, Ynyshir in Machynlleth headed by Gareth Ward, also with two Michelin stars, and Michelin-starred The Sportsman at Whitstable, which was also named Restaurant of the Year.

If you want to travel a little further afield to sample the delights of other restaurants on the list, why not head to north Yorkshire?

The Good Food Guide Awards 2024 named Helmsley and the Howardian Hills as the most exciting food destination.

Helmsley and The Howardian Hills

Helmsley and The Howardian Hills

The North Yorkshire countryside boasts Tommy Banks’ Black Swan at Oldstead and The Star at Harome as well as Myse in Hovingham and The Abbey Inn at Byland – all within five miles of Helmsley.

Our Farm in Cumbria, owned by Simon Rogan and the provider of top quality produce to his restaurants, takes the title for Best Farm to Table and it’s just a stone’s throw from the superb L’Enclume in Cartmel.

London sees two awards - Best Front Row Seat for The Chef’s Table at The Sea and Best New Restaurant was Mountain, with Higher Ground in Manchester featuring in the shortlist.

The Chefs Table at The Sea

The Chef's Table at The Sea

Drinks List of the Year went to Furna in Brighton and Chef to Watch is James Carn at Lark in Suffolk.

WORLD CLASS RESTAURANTS 2024

  • L'Enclume, Cartmel
  • Moor Hall, Aughton
  • The Sportsman, Whitstable
  • Ynyshir, Machynlleth
Ynyshir

Ynyshir

EXCEPTIONAL RESTAURANTS 2024

  • Annwn, Narberth
  • Aulis London, Soho
  • Behind, Hackney
  • Cail Bruich, Glasgow
  • Cedar Tree by Hrishikesh Desai, Brampton
  • Claude Bosi at Bibendum, South Kensington
  • CORE by Clare Smyth, Notting Hill
  • Da Terra, Bethnal Green
  • Edinbane Lodge, Isle of Skye
  • Grace & Savour, Hampton-in-Arden
  • Harborne Kitchen, Birmingham
  • Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, Mayfair
  • Hide and Fox, Hythe
  • Hjem, Wall
  • Home at Penarth, Penarth
  • La Dame de Pic, Tower Hill
  • Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside
  • Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton
  • Meadowsweet, Holt
  • Myse, Hovingham
  • Old Stamp House, Ambleside
  • Osip, Bruton
  • Outlaw's New Road, Port Isaac
  • Pine, East Wallhouses
  • Pollen Street Social, Mayfair
  • Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Chelsea
  • Restaurant Twenty-Two, Cambridge
  • Solstice by Kenny Atkinson, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Sosban & The Old Butcher's, Menai Bridge
  • Spring, Aldwych
  • The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant, Crieff
  • The Ritz, Mayfair
  • The Sea, The Sea Chef's Table, Hackney
  • The White Swan, Fence
  • Woven by Adam Smith, Ascot
Our Farm

Our Farm