Good Food Guide 2018 Rankings

The 2018 Waitrose Good Food Guide rankings have been unveiled and for the first time in five years there is a new number one. Whilst L’Enclume in Cartmel retains its 10/10 rating, it’s been pipped this year by the only other restaurant to get full marks – Restaurant Nathan Outlaw in Port Isaac, Cornwall. The guide has a total of 1,235 restaurants listed with scores from 1/10 to 10/10 based on reader feedback. Here are the venues that scored 8/10 or higher in the 2018 guide:

10/10
1 Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall 
2 L’Enclume, Cumbria 

Top spot for Nathan Outlaw and his team at his seafood restaurant in Port Isaac, Cornwall 

9/10
3 Pollen Street Social, London
4 Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire
5 The Fat Duck, Berkshire 
6 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London

Best Front-of-House award and the No. 4 slot for Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham

8/10
7 Hedone, London 
8 Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Tayside 
9 Claude Bosi at Bibendum, London 
10 Casamia, Bristol 
11 Bohemia, Jersey 
12 Ynyshir, Powys 
13 Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London 
14 Fraiche, Merseyside 
15 Marcus, London 
16 Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham
17 Adam Reid at The French, Manchester 
18 The Ledbury, London 
19 André Garrett at Cliveden, Berkshire 
20 Midsummer House, Cambridgeshire 
21 Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London 
22 The Peat Inn, Fife

Number 10 on the list and Chef of the Year award for Peter Sanchez-Iglesias and Casamia, Bristol

The Waitrose Good Food Guide 2018 Editors’ Awards

Chef of the Year
Peter Sanchez-Iglesias, Casamia, Bristol

Chef to Watch
Ben Crittenden, Stark, Broadstairs, Kent

Restaurant of the Year
The Three Chimneys, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Best New Restaurant Entry
Salt, Stratford-upon-Avon

Best Front-of-House
Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire

Best Pub Restaurant
The Crown, Burchett’s Green, Berkshire

Editors' Choice Restaurant of the Year for the Three Chimneys in Skye