34 editor-picked modern british restaurants across 7 cities.
A guide to modern british restaurants worth a trip, by city. We list operators, signature dishes, and the rooms locals book first.
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The best-scored modern british place in each of 7 cities.
Simon Martin opened Mana in Ancoats in 2018. Manchester's first Michelin star in over forty years when it landed in 2019. Open-kitchen tasting room.
OrderThe full tasting menu; British produce-led, often built around coastal seafood and seasonal vegetables.
TipReserve six weeks ahead for Friday and Saturday; weekday lunch slots open the same season.
Wilsons on Chandos Road holds Bristol's newest Michelin star plus a green star, feeding its dining room from the restaurant's own market garden.
OrderThe set lunch, £35 on Wednesday to Friday, off the smallholding's morning pick.
TipTime Out named it Bristol's best restaurant in 2025; the tiny room books out weeks ahead, so reserve early for Saturday.
Fergus Henderson's St John in Clerkenwell has cooked the nose-to-tail British canon in London since 1994. Priced at £££. Kitchen leans modern british.
OrderRoast bone marrow with parsley salad and toast, then Eccles cake with Lancashire.
TipThe bakery counter near the front sells the same Eccles cakes, doughnuts and brown loaf to take away if you can't get a booking.
Sam Yorke and Tom Hagger's Henderson Street kitchen in Leith Edinburgh, opened 2021 and Michelin-starred 2024, an open-pass small-plates room.
OrderWhatever has come off the Scrabster fish auction that morning and the cured-egg-yolk opening course.
TipThe bar counter takes four walk-up seats from 18:00 if your booking falls through. Same menu, better view of the pass.
Kirk Westaway's two-Michelin-star room on Level 70 of Swissotel The Stamford. Modern British fine dining with panoramic Singapore skyline views.
Book2-3 weeks ahead
Number 16 is a tiny, long-running bistro at the foot of Byres Road in Glasgow's West End, cooking tight modern British menus across a two-storey room.
OrderThe set lunch is the value play; the seasonal mains change with the market.
TipThere are only a dozen or so tables over two floors, so book ahead rather than chancing a walk-in table.
Roganic in Lee Garden One is Simon Rogan's one Michelin star and Green Star Hong Kong outpost, relocated in February 2025 with a sharing led farm to table.
OrderStone bass with brown butter and Roganic farm garnishes.
Book1 to 2 weeks ahead
TipThe Green Star is for sustainability; the kitchen's farm garnishes change daily and are worth asking about.
Simon Martin opened Mana in Ancoats in 2018. Manchester's first Michelin star in over forty years when it landed in 2019. Open-kitchen tasting room.
OrderThe full tasting menu; British produce-led, often built around coastal seafood and seasonal vegetables.
TipReserve six weeks ahead for Friday and Saturday; weekday lunch slots open the same season.
Tom Barnes, formerly executive chef at Simon Rogan's L'Enclume, opened Skof on Federation Street in May 2024. Michelin star inside ten months.
OrderThe set tasting menu, Cumbrian and Northern produce cooked with L'Enclume precision.
TipOnly 36 covers; book six to eight weeks ahead for weekend service.
Wilsons on Chandos Road holds Bristol's newest Michelin star plus a green star, feeding its dining room from the restaurant's own market garden.
OrderThe set lunch, £35 on Wednesday to Friday, off the smallholding's morning pick.
TipTime Out named it Bristol's best restaurant in 2025; the tiny room books out weeks ahead, so reserve early for Saturday.
Fergus Henderson's St John in Clerkenwell has cooked the nose-to-tail British canon in London since 1994. Priced at £££. Kitchen leans modern british.
OrderRoast bone marrow with parsley salad and toast, then Eccles cake with Lancashire.
TipThe bakery counter near the front sells the same Eccles cakes, doughnuts and brown loaf to take away if you can't get a booking.
Bulrush in Cotham has held Bristol's longest-running Michelin star since 2019, with George Livesey's foraged tasting menus in a snug converted shop.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the early-evening menu is the wallet-friendly route.
TipThe early evening menu runs Tuesday to Thursday at 18:00 and is the cheapest way into starred cooking in Bristol.
Started as a 2020 pop-up; now Manchester's flagship Bib Gourmand on Faulkner House. Produce comes from the team's own Cheshire market garden.
OrderThe set sharing menu at lunch, fifteen pounds cheaper and fast-paced; pasta and grilled seafood lead.
TipThe team also runs Flawd wine bar and Bar Shrimp; the trio works as a city-centre crawl.
Taz Sarhane's one-Michelin-starred tasting-menu room inside the Blue Mountain School in Shoreditch London, opened 2022, runs a 90% British menu cooked.
OrderWhatever Cornish day-boat fish is cooked over flame, and the foraged-herb course that anchors the tasting.
TipOne tasting menu per service; book six weeks ahead. The wine pairing leans natural and biodynamic UK growers.
Isaac McHale's tasting-menu kitchen inside Shoreditch Town Hall in London, opened 2013, kept its Michelin star and a place on the World's 50 Best list.
OrderWhatever the seasonal seafood opener is, and the buttermilk fried chicken canape that started the room.
TipCounter seats face the kitchen pass directly. Book the bar for an a la carte run if the tasting menu is full.
Sam Yorke and Tom Hagger's Henderson Street kitchen in Leith Edinburgh, opened 2021 and Michelin-starred 2024, an open-pass small-plates room.
OrderWhatever has come off the Scrabster fish auction that morning and the cured-egg-yolk opening course.
TipThe bar counter takes four walk-up seats from 18:00 if your booking falls through. Same menu, better view of the pass.
Kirk Westaway's two-Michelin-star room on Level 70 of Swissotel The Stamford. Modern British fine dining with panoramic Singapore skyline views.
Book2-3 weeks ahead
Roberta Hall-McCarron's Bonnington Road dining room in Edinburgh, a Michelin Bib-listed neighbourhood kitchen running modern Scottish tasting menus.
OrderThe set lunch on Friday; three courses of the kitchen's best new dishes at half the dinner price.
TipRoberta also runs Eleanore around the corner on Albert Place for walk-in small plates if the Chartroom is fully booked.
Lloyd Morse, James Snowdon and Ruairidh Buchanan's Palmerston Place dining room in Edinburgh's West End, opened in 2021 in a former bank, a Michelin.
OrderThe whole roast chicken to share, and whatever fish has come off the East Coast that morning.
TipThe bakery counter sells off the day's bread at 16:00 for the next morning. Sourdough and cinnamon buns go first.
Root cooks vegetable-first small plates from a shipping container at Wapping Wharf, Bristol, and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide.
OrderWhatever the kitchen does with hispi cabbage that week, plus one fish plate.
TipPart of Josh Eggleton's Pony family of restaurants; Sunday lunch runs to 15:30 and the terrace fills first in summer.
Number 16 is a tiny, long-running bistro at the foot of Byres Road in Glasgow's West End, cooking tight modern British menus across a two-storey room.
OrderThe set lunch is the value play; the seasonal mains change with the market.
TipThere are only a dozen or so tables over two floors, so book ahead rather than chancing a walk-in table.
Roganic in Lee Garden One is Simon Rogan's one Michelin star and Green Star Hong Kong outpost, relocated in February 2025 with a sharing led farm to table.
OrderStone bass with brown butter and Roganic farm garnishes.
Book1 to 2 weeks ahead
TipThe Green Star is for sustainability; the kitchen's farm garnishes change daily and are worth asking about.
Bristol10 places
Wilsons, Bulrush
Manchester9 places
Mana, Skof
London7 places
St John, Cycene
Edinburgh5 places
Heron, The Little Chartroom
Glasgow1 place
Number 16
Hong Kong1 place
Roganic
Singapore1 place
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