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The National Restaurant Awards 2012
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Also see The Sunday Times Food List 2013 – 2014 for the latest awards: http://blog.luxuryrestaurantguide.com/2013/11/03/sunday-times-top-100-restaurants-in-britain-2013-2014/
The Sunday Times Food List 2012 is the publications bi-annual guide to the finest 200 restaurants in Britain in its 28th October 2012 edition.
The list represents the view of the food loving general public instead of the usual anonymous inspectors in guides such as Michelin or AA. It is compiled in association with the Harden’s Guide using 80,000 genuine reports from diners who had been asked to rate the places they have visited.
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The top 100 Sunday Times best restaurants in Britain 2012 are:
1.Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles
2.Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon
4.Waterside Inn, Bray, Berkshire
6.Le Manoir Aux Quat’s Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
8.Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
10.Mr. Underhills, Ludlow, Shropshire
11.L’Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria
12.Marcus Wareing, The Berkeley, London SW1
14.Hambleton Hall, Hambleton, Rutland
15.The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire
18.The Square, Mayfair, London, W1
19.Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire
20.Texture, Marylebone, London W1
21.Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham
22.Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Rock, Cornwall
23.Theo Randall, Mayfair, London, W1
24.The Kitchen, Edinburgh
25.The Greenhouse, Mayfair, London W1
26.The Three Chimney’s, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye
27.Rasoi, Chelsea, London, SW3
28.Yorke Arms, Ramsgill in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire
29.Fishers at Baslow Hall, Baslow, Derbyshire
30.Roux at the Landau, London W1
31.Chez Bruce, Balham, London SW17
33.Defune, London W1
35.Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Knightsbridge, London SW1
36.Northcote, Langho, Lancashire
37.Lumiere, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
39.L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Covent Garden, London WC2
40.Hunan, Pimlico, London, SW1
41.Viajante, Bethnal Green, London, E2
42.Roganic, Marylebone, London, W1
43.L’Ortolan, Shinfield, Berkshire
44.Min Jiang, Kensington, London W8
45.Lords of the Manor, The Slaughters, Gloucestershire
46.Dining, Marylebone, London W1
47.Paris House, Woburn, Bedfordshire
48.Zuma, South Kensington, London SW7
49.Lasan, Birmingham
50.Paul Ainsworth at Number 6, Padstow, Cornwall
51.Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
52.Artichoke, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
53.The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Marlborough, Wiltshire
54.The Ritz, St James’s, London W1
55.Roka, London W1
56.Le Petite Maison, Mayfair, London, W1
57.Wiltons, St James’s, London SW1
58.Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
59.Trinity, Clapham, London SW4
60.The Crown at Whitebrook, Monmouthshire (now closed)
61.Morston Hall, Morston, Norfolk
62.The Sportsman, Whitstable, Kent
64.Club Gascon, Smithfield, London EC1
65.Koffmann’s, The Berkeley, Knightsbridge, London SW1
67.Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall
69.Murano, Mayfair, London, W1
70.Auberge du Lac, Welwyn, Hertfordshire
71.Gauthier Soho, Soho, London, W1
72.Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond, Loch Lomond, Dunbartonshire
73.La Trompette, Chiswick, London W4
75.21212, Edinburgh
76.Petrus, Knightsbridge, London SW1
77.J Sheekey, Covent Garden, London WC2
78.Benares, Mayfair, London, W1
79.Helene Darroze at The Connaught, Mayfair, London, W1
80.Vetiver, Chewton Glen, New Milton, Hampshire
81.Scott’s, Mayfair, London, W1
82.The Walnut Tree, Llandewi Skirrid, Monmouthshire
83.Assaggi, Bayswater, London W2
84.Morgan M, Smithfield, London EC1
85.The Seahorse, Dartmouth, Devon
86.The River Café, Hammersmith, London, W6
87.Amaya, Belgravia, London, SW1
88.Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, Denbighshire
89.Wheelers Oyster Bay, Whitstable, Kent
90.The Glasshouse, Kew, Surrey
91.Hibscus, Mayfair, London, W1
92.The Vanilla Pod, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
93.Roka, Canary Wharf, London E14
94.Nobu Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London W1
95.Yashin, Kensington, London, W8
96.La Becasse, Ludlow, Shropshire
97.Angelus, Bayswater, London, W2
98.Jin Kichi, Hampstead, London, NW3
