Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume has been named the UK’s best restaurant for the third year running in the Waitrose Good Food Guide.
The Cumbrian fine dining restaurant kept Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in second place while Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social jumped three places to third.
Robin Gill of the Dairy and the Manor, based in Clapham, south London, won chef of the year.
Steven Smith’s Freemasons at Wiswell pub in Lancashire was the top pub, beating Tom Kerridge’s Hand & Flowers.
The top 50 restaurants were as follows (with food ratings in brackets):
1. L’Enclume, Cumbria (10)
2. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London (10)
3. Pollen Street Social, London (9)
4. Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall (9)
5. Hibiscus, London (9)
6. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire (9)
7. Midsummer House, Cambridgeshire (8) (new in top 10 this year)
8. The Ledbury, London (8)
9. Fraiche, Merseyside (8) (new in top 10 this year)
10. Le Champignon Sauvage, Glos (8)
11. The Square, London (8)
12. Fera at Claridges, London (8)
13. Le Gavroche, London (8)
14. Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Tayside (8)
15. Marcus, London (8)
16. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxfordshire (8)
17. The French, Manchester (8)
18. André Garrett at Cliveden, Berkshire (8)
19. Whatley Manor, The Dining Room, Wiltshire (8)
20. The Kitchin, Edinburgh (7)
21. Bohemia, Jersey (7)
22. The Waterside Inn, Berkshire (7)
23. Artichoke, Buckinghamshire (7)
24. Restaurant James Sommerin, Glamorgan (7)
25. Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London (7)
26. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London (7)
27. Paul Ainsworth at No. 6, Cornwall (7)
28. Casamia, Bristol (7)
29. Adam’s, Birmingham (7) (new in top 50 this year)
30. Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh (7)
31. Pied à Terre, London (7)
32. Restaurant Story, London (7)
33. Murano, London (7)
34. Ynyshir Hall, Powys (7)
35. Sketch, London (7) (new in top 50 this year)
36. Llangoed Hall, Powys (7) (new in top 50 this year)
37. Hedone, London (7)
38. Hambleton Hall, Rutland (7)
39. The Peat Inn, Fife (7)
40. Gidleigh Park, Devon (7)
41. Fischer’s Baslow Hall, Derbyshire (7)
42. Freemasons at Wiswell, Lancashire (7)
43. The Hand & Flowers, Buckinghamshire (6)
44. Yorke Arms, Ramsgill, Yorkshire (6)
45. The Dairy, London (6) (new in top 50 this year)
46. OX, Belfast (6)
47. The Raby Hunt, Durham (6)
48. Lake Road Kitchen, Cumbria (6) (new in top 50 this year)
49. The Sportsman, Kent (6)
50. Northcote, Lancashire (6)
The 50 pubs were:
The Top 50 Pubs
1. Freemasons at Wiswell, Lancashire
2. The Hand & Flowers, Buckinghamshire
3. The Sportsman, Kent
4. Red Lion, East Chisenbury, Wiltshire
5. The Pony & Trap, Chew Magna, Somerset
6. The Lickfold Inn, Sussex
7. The Woodspeen, Berkshire
8. The Ancrum Cross Keys, Borders, Scotland
9. The Pipe and Glass Inn, Yorkshire
10. The Royal Oak, Paley Street, Berkshire
11. The Coach, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
12. The Butcher’s Arms, Eldersfield, Gloucester
13. The Treby Arms, Devon
14. The Cross at Kenilworth, Warwickshire
15. The White Oak, Cookham, Berkshire
16. The Hardwick, Abergavenny
17. The Star Inn, Harome, Yorkshire
18. The Stagg Inn, Titley, Herefordshire
19. The Harwood Arms, Fulham, London
20. The Plough, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire
21. The Plough Inn, Longparish, Hampshire
22. The Hinds Head, Berkshire
23. The Nut Tree Inn, Oxfordshire
24. The Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon
25. The Broad Chare, Tyne & Wear
26. The Miller of Mansfield, Oxfordshire
27. The Wellington Arms, Baughurst, Hampshire
28. The Falcon Inn, Withernwick, Yorkshire
29. The Lamb Inn, Crawley, Oxfordshire
30. The Springer Spaniel, Cornwall
31. The Star Inn, Sparsholt, Oxfordshire
32. The Felin Fach Griffin, Powys
33. The Duke of Cumberland Arms, West Sussex
34. The Purefoy Arms, Hampshire
35. The Duke of York Inn, Grindleton, Lancashire
36. The Kinmel Arms, Conwy
37. The Richmond Arms, West Ashling, West Sussex
38. The Five Alls, Oxfordshire
39. The New Inn, Great Limber, Lincolnshire
40. The General Tarleton, Yorkshire
41. The White Hart, Lydgate, Greater Manchester
42. The Sun Inn, Dedham, Essex
43. The Bay Horse, Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham
44. The Kingham Plough, Oxfordshire
45. The Square and Compasses, Essex
46. The Star at Sancton, Yorkshire
47. Bunch of Grapes, Glamorgan
48. Beckford Arms, Wiltshire
49. Wheatsheaf Inn, Northleach, Gloucestershire
50. The Camberwell Arms, London
