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Best of the Best: Restaurants
Regularly there is an increasing number of Guides and award ceremonies acknowledging the top restaurants right across the UK with venues keen to be named. From these listings Eat Out has researched its own ultimate Top 100 and Alan Sutton describes how this has been achieved.
FOCUSING ON THE BEST
The British public’s love affair with eating out has increasingly, over recent years, turned into a passion.
As home-grown chefs have, at the very least, competed neck and neck with those imported from France, Switzerland, Germany and other parts of Europe; as the formerly once-unknown British Michelin star has been sprinkled liberally to the farthest reaches of our islands; so it would seem has become the need for more and more organisations, publishers and associations to issue their own gastronomic recognition.
So, it has been to those we have looked to try to determine which really are considered the best restaurants in Britain.
We have scoured the internet, scanned every restaurant guide, asked Eat Out readers, looked at regional and local newspapers, trade publications and as many other handers-out of awards as we could find to produce our list. Restaurants have been awarded one point for every accolade received in 2007/8, and we have taken into account any Michelin stars they hold, whenever they were gained.
From the evidence gathered we have compiled our Top 100 of Eat Out’s Best of the Best UK Restaurants.
OUR SOURCES WERE:
Good Food Guide 2008
East of England Tourism
Michelin Great Britain & Ireland 2008
AA Restaurant Guide 2008
Zagat London Restaurants
Square Meal
Observer
Decanter Magazine
Leicestershire & Rutland Restaurant Awards
Time Out London
Remy Martin/Hardens
Scottish Restaurant Awards
The Independent
Les Routiers
Tastes of Anglia
Taste of Kent
Flavours of Herefordshire
London Food & Drink Awards
Taste of the West
Craft Guild of Chefs Awards
Caterer & Hotelkeeper Catey Awards
Eat Sheffield
Eat Out Magazine
Hardens Restaurant Guide 2008
Coventry/Warwickshire Food & Drink Awards
Evening Standard Visit London Awards
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