30 editor picks across United Kingdom.
30 modern british restaurants worth the trip across United Kingdom, editor-ranked. All cuisines in United Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Bib.
OrderThe whole roast chicken for two and the sourdough with cultured butter.
TipThe bakery counter sells off the day's bread at 16:00. Sourdough and cinnamon buns go first.
Roberta Hall-McCarron's Bonnington Road dining room in Edinburgh, opened in 2017, a Michelin Bib-listed neighbourhood kitchen running British-leaning.
OrderBeef tartare with smoked oyster, and the set lunch on Friday for three courses at half price.
TipRoberta also runs Eleanore around the corner on Albert Place for walk-in small plates.
Adam Reid runs the Belle Epoque dining room of the Midland Hotel in Manchester. Listed in the Michelin Guide; the historic 1903 room is the booking here.
OrderThe ten-course tasting menu, Northern produce reframed.
TipDinner only, Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00. The Midland's lobby bar handles aperitif.
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.
Other brings ex-Casamia cooking to a tiny room on Cannon Street in Bedminster, Bristol, and it won a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide.
OrderThe snacks section first; the short menu changes with the week's deliveries.
TipLunch only runs Friday and Saturday 12:30 to 14:00, and the dining room is tiny, so book for weekends.
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.
Other brings ex-Casamia cooking to a tiny room on Cannon Street in Bedminster, Bristol, and it won a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide.
OrderThe snacks section first; the short menu changes with the week's deliveries.
TipLunch only runs Friday and Saturday 12:30 to 14:00, and the dining room is tiny, so book for weekends.
Margot Henderson's daily-changing British canteen inside a converted bike shed off Arnold Circus in Shoreditch London, open since 2004 for lunch.
OrderWhatever offal opener is on the chalkboard, then the custard tart for pudding.
TipOpen Mon-Sat for lunch and Thu-Sat dinner only. No music, no menu printed; the writeup is on the wall.
Jeremy Lee's Dean Street dining room in Soho London, opened 1926 and restored under chef Lee since 2012, runs a daily-changing seasonal British menu.
OrderThe smoked eel sandwich on rye, and whatever pudding is on the chalkboard at the door.
TipLunch menu is a fraction of dinner prices and just as well-staffed; book a Soho-show theatre lunch a week ahead.
Max Yorke and Julian Pizer run a 24-seat Michelin-listed bistro on Deansgate Mews in Manchester. Vegetable-forward plates, low-intervention wines.
OrderThe vegetable plate the kitchen builds that week; sourdough comes with cultured butter.
TipTiny room, two services only. Bookings via the site, no walk-ins.
Neighbourhood tasting room in Urmston; Michelin Guide listed. Small kitchen, regularly changing menu, walking distance from the Metrolink stop.
OrderThe six-course tasting; vegetarian version is the kitchen's strong second.
TipDinner Wednesday to Saturday; the room is small, book three weeks ahead.
Box-E squeezes a Bib Gourmand kitchen into one shipping container on Bristol's Wapping Wharf, with Tess and Elliott Lidstone cooking for a handful of tables.
OrderThe kitchen table if you can get it: two seats facing the stove.
TipSittings are fixed at 17:30 and 20:00; the tiny room means booking ahead matters more here than anywhere else on the wharf.
Box-E squeezes a Bib Gourmand kitchen into one shipping container on Bristol's Wapping Wharf, with Tess and Elliott Lidstone cooking for a handful of tables.
OrderThe kitchen table if you can get it: two seats facing the stove.
TipSittings are fixed at 17:30 and 20:00; the tiny room means booking ahead matters more here than anywhere else on the wharf.
Neighbourhood bar and kitchen on Cutting Room Square in Ancoats. Order the pulled lamb shoulder flatbread; crispy pork belly. Kitchen leans modern british.
OrderPulled lamb shoulder flatbread; crispy pork belly.
TipWalk in at lunch; book ahead for Friday or Saturday dinner Walk-ins usually OK.
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.
The 1869 Farringdon Road working-class dining room in Clerkenwell London, restored under Will Lander since 2012, runs daily-changing British cooking.
OrderThe famed confit potato, then mince and potatoes off the daily menu, with a bottle from the shop next door.
TipThe wine shop next door is corkage-free if you buy a bottle there. Lunch takes walk-ins at the counter Tue-Sat.
Nineteenth-floor restaurant and rooftop terrace above Hardman Square. Modern British menu against panoramic Manchester views; DJs play weekend evenings.
OrderSunday roast on the dining-room side; the bar terrace handles cocktails.
TipResident DJs play from 17:00 on Thursday and Friday and from 13:00 on Saturday; book ahead for groups of up to 12.
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