The Good Food Guide 2018

by Elizabeth Carter

Love eating out Looking for suggestions from a source you can trust Whether you re holidaying in Cornwall, on a business trip to the highlands, ambling through Suffolk, or simply want to try a new place close to home, The Good Food Guide will help you discover the UK s very best restaurants, pubs and hidden gems on a budget that suits you. Our expert inspectors dine anonymously and pay the bill in full. Their detailed, entertaining, impartial reviews take account of feedback from thousands of regular diners, making The Good Food Guide for decades the nation s bestselling restaurant handbook your essential companion to eating out in Britain. Acting fearlessly on the recommendations of our inspectors and readers, we tell it like it is. Read interviews with top chefs, catch up with exciting foodie trends, and find out which restaurants are the ones inspectors can t wait to revisit and which dishes really set their hearts racing.

624 pages, Paperback

Published September 4, 2017

About the author

Elizabeth Carter was an English poet, classicist, writer and translator, and a member of the Bluestocking Circle around Elizabeth Montagu.

Reviews

[Jay Maxfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received my copy of this guide two days ago and I have already spent an hour or two looking to see what new entries made it into this years guide. I have bought this book for years now and even though I don't live in the UK - I am a frequent visitor there and wouldn't want to be without it. If you are a foodie and don't always want to go to or cannot afford Michelin Star restaurants this is definitely the guide to buy - in fact I would go as far as saying that this is the best food guide you will find for the UK. I always get the feeling that this guide is independent from the Restaurant industry and isn't influenced so much (like other guides) by what's in or most popular at the time of publication. As always the Midland Counties (and Surrey) have very few entries - and in my previous review for 2017 I did complain about this - however I suspect that there aren't so many good restaurants in these areas and the people who eat in these counties DON'T fill in a restaurant review on the Good Food Guide - hence they don't get into the guide - I am also guilty of this and will endeavour to rectify this omission in future. This year my only criticism of this more than excellent guide is that the maps for greater London only show East and West - what has happened to North & South Greater London? I would give this guide 9.5 out of 10.