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Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants in Britain 2012

29th Oct 2012

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

3.The Ledbury, London W11

4.Waterside Inn, Bray, Berkshire

5.One-O-One, London SW1

6.Le Manoir Aux Quat’s Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire

7.Midsummer House, Cambridge

8.Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh

9.Le Gavroche, Mayfair, W1

10.Mr. Underhills, Ludlow, Shropshire

11.L’Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria

12.Marcus Wareing, The Berkeley, London SW1

13.Umu, Mayfair, London W1

14.Hambleton Hall, Hambleton, Rutland

15.The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire

16.Pied a Terre, London W1

17.Purnell’s, Birmingham

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

32.Bath Priory Hotel, Bath

33.Defune, London W1

34.Simpsons, Birmingham

35.Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Knightsbridge, London SW1

36.Northcote, Langho, Lancashire

37.Lumiere, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

38.Drakes, Ripley, Surrey

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

63.Kai, Mayfair, London W1

64.Club Gascon, Smithfield, London EC1

65.Koffmann’s, The Berkeley, Knightsbridge, London SW1

66.Hakkasan, London W1

67.Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall

68.Yauatcha, Soho, London, W1

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

74.Number One, Edinburgh

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

99.Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Mayfair, London, W1

100.Gordon Ramsay, Chelsea, London, SW3

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