Good Food Guide

CODE Hospitality to relaunch The Good Food Guide as 'continuously updated' app

24-Mar-2022 By James McAllister

The Good Food Guide will longer be released as an annual print publication and instead will function as a 'continuously updated' app, it has been announced.

The Good Food Guide to return after being bought by CODE Hospitality

29-Oct-2021 By Restaurant

The future of respected restaurant guidebook The Good Food Guide has been secured with its purchase by UK hospitality industry membership network CODE Hospitality.

Good Food Guide ceases publication

28-May-2021 By James McAllister

Waitrose has announced that it has no plans to publish another Good Food Guide.

Good Food Guide announces it will not publish 2021 edition

06-May-2020 By James McAllister

The Good Food Guide (GFG) has said it will not publish its annual guide this year due to the ongoing impact the Coronavirus crisis is having on the restaurant industry.

Freemasons at Wiswell in Lancashire to become restaurant with rooms

14-Sep-2017 By Stefan Chomka

Award-winning gastropub Freemasons at Wiswell in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley is set to become a restaurant with rooms after being granted planning permission to add accommodation at the premises.

Outlaw robs Rogan of top spot in The Good Food Guide 2018

17-Aug-2017 By Joe Lutrario

Nathan Outlaw’s eponymous seafood restaurant has been awarded the top spot in the 2018 Good Food Guide, pushing Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume into second place after four years as the reader-reviews based guide’s most highly rated place to eat.

L'Enclume named UK's best restaurant in 2017 Good Food Guide

25-Aug-2016 By Sophie Witts

Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume has been named the UK’s best restaurant for the fourth year running in the 2017 Waitrose Good Food Guide

Wine & Brine named Waitrose Good Food Guide Local Restaurant of the Year

27-Jul-2016 By Emma Eversham

Wine & Brine, ex-Corrigan's chef Chris McGowan's restaurant in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has been named the overall winner of the Waitrose Good Food Guide Local Restaurant of the Year Awards 2017.

BigHospitality's 2014 review: our top 10 stories

23-Dec-2014 By Carina Perkins

As the year pulls to a close, BigHospitality looks back at some of the biggest stories of the year – from Noma stealing back the title of World’s Best Restaurant to floods, beer duty and Tom Kerridge's long-awaited second pub.

Casamia’s Sanchez-Iglesias brothers crowned Good Food Guide’s Chefs of the Year

02-Sep-2014 By Melodie Michel

Chefs Jonray and Peter Sanchez-Iglesias of Bristol’s Casamia restaurant have been crowned Chefs of the Year by Waitrose Good Food Guide 2015.

L’Enclume, Fat Duck and Gordon Ramsay make Good Food Guide history

27-Aug-2014 By Melodie Michel

The restaurants scored a 10 out of 10 in Waitrose’s yearly publication – the first time in 15 years that three restaurants got the top mark.

Good Food Guide 2014: Rogan’s run continues with perfect rating for L'Enclume

03-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Visionary chef and restaurateur Simon Rogan has come up trumps in the Good Food Guide, with his Cartmel restaurant L’Enclume once again scoring a perfect 10 out of 10 and this year snatching top spot from Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck.

Good Food Guide editor: 'We're in a golden age of eating out'

30-Aug-2012 By Emma Eversham

Good Food Guide consultant editor Elizabeth Carter has praised the hospitality industry, claiming that consumers are currently enjoying a 'golden age of eating out'.

Simon Rogan: Perfect rating in 2013 Good Food Guide ‘the icing on the cake’

13-Aug-2012 By Luke Nicholls

Simon Rogan’s Michelin-starred restaurant L’Enclume has scored the perfect 10 in The Good Food Guide 2013, joining The Fat Duck as one of only two restaurants in the UK to achieve the maximum rating.

Career Profile: Laurie Gear

24-Feb-2012 By Peter Ruddick

Largely self-taught chef Laurie Gear started his career washing dishes in a local Dorset hotel. After he met his wife while learning his trade in the kitchen of the Combe House hotel in Gittisham, Gear worked with her to achieve their dream in 2002 of...