The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants
Fraiche in Oxton, Cheshire has been named Britain’s best restaurant, topping The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants. The list, published on Sunday October 19, is compiled by The Sunday Times in association with Harden’s. Now in its fifth year, it is based on 70,000 reviews from more than 6,000 consumers.
The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants 2014 – Top 20
2014 ranking (2013 ranking)
1 (6) Fraiche – Oxton, Cheshire
2 (7) Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons – Great Milton, Oxfordshire
3 (9) L’Enclume – Cartmel, Cumbria
4 (8) The Ledbury – Notting Hill, London
5 (13) Mr Underhill’s – Shropshire, Ludlow
6 (10) Restaurant Sat Bains – Nottingham
7 (25) Rasoi – Chelsea, SW3, London
8 (New entry) Harry’s Place – Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire
9 (1) Gidleigh Park – Chagford, Devon
10 (14) Waterside Inn – Bray, Berkshire
11 (5) Restaurant Martin Wishart – Edinburgh
12 (32) The Pass Restaurant, South Lodge Hotel – Horsham, West Sussex
13 (Re-entry) Martin Wishart, Cameron House – Loch Lomond
14 (27) Simon Radley, The Chester Grosvenor – Chester
15 (4) Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, The St Enodoc Hotel – Rock, Cornwall
16 (15) Le Gavroche – Mayfair, London
17 (16) One-O-One, Sheraton Park Tower – Knightsbridge, London
18 (69) The Castle Terrace – Edinburgh
19 (3) Yorke Arms – Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale, North Yorkshire
20 (35) Kitchen Table, Bubbledogs – Fitzrovia, London
Key regional stats
London – 47 restaurants featured – the first time London has provided less than half the list, but it has two in the top ten, and 19 in the top 50
South West – 11 restaurants, including Bristol’s first ever entry on the list, Wilks
South East – 11 restaurants, including three in the top 15
North West – 7 restaurants, including top five rankings for Fraiche and L’Enclume
Midlands – 7 restaurants, including three in the top 10
Yorkshire – 3 restaurants, the region’s best performance since the list was first published in 2010
East – 2 restaurants, including new entry the Neptune in Norfolk
North East – 1 restaurant, the region’s first ever entry is Raby Hunt in Darlington
Scotland – 8 restaurants, including four in Edinburgh – 21212, The Castle Terrace and The Kitchin and Restaurant Martin Wishart – making it the city outside of London with the most entries on the list
Wales – 2 restaurants, after no entries in the top 100 last year: Tyddyn Llan in Llandrillo and Checkers in Montgomery
Jersey – 1 restaurant, The Bohemia at The Club Hotel Spa, after the Channel Island had no entries in 2013
Editor of The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants, Karen Robinson, said: “The Sunday Times Restaurant List is the definitive guide to the best places to eat in Britain. We carefully compile and analyse the reviews of thousands of diners to produce our top 100, so the chefs and restaurants that feature have truly earned their place. It is very exciting to see the evolution of the list since The Sunday Times first published it in 2010 – this year has seen a marked increase in the number of restaurants outside London, a sign that we are becoming an increasingly sophisticated culinary nation.”
