It’s all very well revealing the UK’s best restaurant, but with a 12-month waiting list for weekend tables, getting a table at The Hand & Flowers in Marlow isn’t for the impatient. Fortunately, we’ve rated and ranked the nation’s other 99 best restaurants – nobody goes hungry on our watch. From the Scottish Highlands to the beaches of Cornwall (and every plate in-between), here are 2015’s best restaurants outside London, voted for by a combination of readers, bloggers and our nationwide team of reviewers.
The full list is below, but you can also find more information on each individual restaurant in our Square Meal UK top 100 selection.
1-10
1. The Hand & Flowers (above), Marlow, Buckinghamshire
2. L’Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria
3. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
4. Northcote, Langho, Lancashire
5. The French, Manchester
6. Midsummer House, Cambridge
7. The Waterside Inn, Bray, Berkshire
8. André Garrett at Cliveden, Taplow, Berkshire
9. Artichoke, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
10. Nathan Outlaw, Port Isaac, Cornwall
11. Manchester House, Manchester
12. The Kitchin, Edinburgh
13. Restaurant Mark Greenaway, Edinburgh
14. Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall
15. Sticky Walnut, Chester
16. Mr Cooper’s House & Garden, Manchester
17. Alimentum, Cambridge
18. The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent
19. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham
20. Hambleton Hall, Rutland
21-40
21. Porthminster Beach Café, St Ives, Cornwall
22. The Seafood Restaurant (above), Padstow, Cornwall
23. Stovell’s, Chobham, Surrey
24. The Walnut Tree, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
25. Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside, Cumbria
26. The Great House, Lavenham, Suffolk
27. Plumed Horse, Edinburgh
28. Fraiche, Oxton, Merseyside
29. Andrew Fairlie, Auchterarder, Perthshire
30. Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon
31. The Lickfold Inn, Petworth, West Sussex
32. The Whitehouse Restaurant, Lochaline, Argyll
33. The Pompadour by Galvin, Edinburgh
34. Chapter One, Locksbottom, Kent
35. Pea Porridge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
36. Lumiere, Cheltenham
37. Michael Wignall at The Latymer, Bagshot, Surrey
38. The Yew Tree, Highclere, Berkshire
39. Maison Bleue, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
40. The Pipe & Glass, Beverley, East Yorkshire
41-60
41. Bourne Valley Inn, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire
42. The Three Chimneys (above), Colbost, Isle of Skye
43. Morston Hall, Holt, Norfolk
44. Purnell’s, Birmingham
45. Roger Hickman’s Restaurant, Norwich
46. The House of Tides, Newcastle
47. Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham
48. Castle Terrace Restaurant, Edinburgh
49. The Seagrave Arms, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
50. The Clink, Cardiff
51. Restaurant James Sommerin, Cardiff
52. The Loft, Sidmouth, Devon
53. The Swan at Lavenham, Suffolk
54. The Larwood & Voce, Nottingham
55. Ode, Shaldon, Devon
56. Simpsons, Birmingham
57. Hix Oyster and Fish House, Lyme Regis, Dorset
58. Leaping Hare, Stanton, Suffolk
59. Timberyard, Edinburgh
60. Sojo, Oxford
61-80
61. The Lord Clyde, Macclesfield, Cheshire
62. The Samling, Ambleside, Cumbria
63. The Hinds Head, Bray, Berkshire
64. The Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire
65. The Crown & Castle, Orford, Suffolk
66. Tuddenham Mill, Tuddenham, Suffolk
67. 64 Degrees, Brighton
68. Freemasons, Wiswell, Lancashire
69. Iberico World Tapas, Nottingham
70. The Seahorse (above), Dartmouth, Devon
71. The Old Stamp House Restaurant, Ambleside, Cumbria
72. Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
73. The Broad Chare, Newcastle
74. Café Fish, Tobermory, Isle of Mull
75. The Hole in the Wall, Cambridge
76. Crab & Boar, Chieveley, Berkshire
77. The Witchery by the Castle, Edinburgh
78. The Coach, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
79. Mother India, Glasgow
80. Monachyle Mhor, Lochearnhead, Perthshire
81-100
81. Casamia, Bristol
82. 21212, Edinburgh
83. The Hardwick, Abergavenny, Monmouthsire
84. The Raby Hunt Restaurant, Darlington, County Durham
85. Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor, Chester
86. Y Polyn, Capel Dewi, Carmarthen
87. Bell’s Diner, Bristol
88. The Pass, Horsham, West Sussex
89. Turners Restaurant (above), Birmingham
90. The Gardener’s Cottage, Edinburgh
91. Carters of Moseley, Birmingham
92. Lido, Bristol
93. The Felin Fach Griffin, Brecon, Powys
94. The Elephant, Torquay, Devon
95. The Chilli Pickle, Brighton
96. The Kingham Plough, Kingham, Oxfordshire
97. Ynshir Hall, Eglwysfach, Powys
98. Oli’s Thai, Oxford
99. Tyddyn Lan, Corwen, Denbighshire
100. Purple Poppadom, Cardiff
We conducted our survey in May and June this year, so you can rest assured that this is the freshest UK list there is. Don’t forget, the full details for each restaurant in our top 100 can be viewed here.
This article was published 23 July 2015