The Top 77 Restaurants Near JÖRO
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Rank 1. JÖRO
Nordic Japanese
A converted 300-year-old mill on the edge of the Peak District is a long way from a Sheffield shipping container, but the tasting menu restaurant JÖRO landed a Michelin star either way. The cooking fuses Nordic and Japanese ideas with Yorkshire ingredients, and the open kitchen means you can watch the whole operation. Rooms upstairs, two bars, and an outdoor terrace make it easy to stay longer than planned.
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Rank 2. Restaurant ELM
British
Vinyl on the turntable, retro furniture, shelves of books, and local Sheffield honey available by the jar on the way out. By day it's a coffee shop; come evening, candles appear and the room quietly becomes a set-menu restaurant serving British food that ranges from straightforwardly lovely to genuinely intricate. The kind of neighbourhood spot that doesn't need to announce itself.
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Rank 3. Rafters Restaurant
Modern British
Exposed beams and bare brickwork give this first-floor Sheffield dining room the feel of a converted loft that forgot to be pretentious about it. The tasting menu leans into modern British cooking with serious produce, and the Kitchen Bench seats you directly in front of the pass if you want to watch the work. A shorter set menu runs at certain times. The wine list is organised by style and character, which is more useful than it sounds.
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Rank 4. Tom Lawson at the Psalter
Modern British
A bureau stuffed with the chef's own cookery books gives away the mood at this boutique hotel restaurant on the quieter south side of Sheffield. Tom Lawson runs a set seasonal menu, Modern British in spirit, that shifts with the market and reaches back to family memory, a cauliflower cheese that nods to his grandmother sitting alongside more classical technique. The room is warm and a little funky, the service confident without being stiff.
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Rank 5. Norman's Neighbourhood Kitchen
Mediterranean
Norman is a dog and a grandfather, not the chef, which sets the tone for this relaxed neighbourhood bistro in Kirkburton. Rustic décor, a warm service team, and sharing plates that lean Mediterranean with a local wink, including pig's cheek glazed in Henderson's Relish, Sheffield's cult condiment. The entire wine list comes by the glass, and the local ales move fast. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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A stone former vicarage on the edge of Derbyshire, converted into a quietly ambitious fine dining room where the grounds alone are worth arriving early for. Two fixed-price menus anchor the experience, the longer of the two running through modern dishes built on serious sourcing, including game from estates you'd recognize by name. The setting has an easy grandeur that the cooking doesn't try to outrun.
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Rank 7. Almanac
Traditional British
Mince on dripping toast is on the menu, and that tells you most of what you need to know about Almanac. This High Street bar and small-plates restaurant in Glossop keeps things unapologetically old-school British, from the classics-with-a-twist cocktails to the slow-braised onions cooked in chicken broth. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, it draws locals who treat the wine list like a short conversation rather than a thesis.
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A beautifully restored old inn sitting high in the Peak District, with an open kitchen on the upper floor and a rustic, cosy feel throughout. The menu is concise and seasonal, with enough international influence to keep things lively without losing the sense of place. Bedrooms in The Old Piggery sleep the walkers who take the nearby routes seriously, and the ground-floor rooms welcome dogs, which in Derbyshire is practically a civic requirement.
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The Fischer family has been running this Edwardian manor on formal Derbyshire grounds for two generations now, which earns a certain ease. It's a country house restaurant with elegant dining rooms and the kind of service that irons its napkins. A Kitchen Bench seats you close enough to the kitchen to feel involved. Chatsworth Estate venison shows up during game season and tends to settle the question of what to order.
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Rank 10. The Gallery Restaurant
Modern British
Oil paintings line the walls of this elegant hotel dining room on the Chatsworth Estate, and the beef on your plate likely grazed the same grounds you drove through to get here. The kitchen keeps things Modern British and unfussy, letting the estate produce carry the argument. The breads and desserts are quietly serious enough that you'll notice if you skip either.
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Rank 11. The Bulls Head
Modern British
A full car park on a weekday night tells you something about a Derbyshire village pub. This one has built a loyal following by running tasting menus and an à la carte alongside the real ales, and by printing your name on the menu, which is either charming or slightly alarming depending on how you feel about being expected. The kitchen has genuine ambition, and the soufflés are the kind that make the table go quiet.
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Rank 12. Lovage
Modern British
Beamed ceilings and exposed brick in a converted stable block, right in the middle of a market town that Michelin knows mainly for its pudding. Lovage is a cosy modern British restaurant where the team talks you through locally sourced dishes with the kind of enthusiasm that stops just short of theatrical. Classic pairings like roasted beetroot and goat's cheese keep things grounded. They run a more casual coffee shop next door, if you'd rather not commit.
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Rank 13. Deacon's Bank
Modern British
The chef's counter sits right next to the old banking vault, which is either a design quirk or a very pointed comment on where the real value lies. This Modern British restaurant in Chapel-en-le-Frith runs an ambitious tasting menu alongside a looser lunch of fish pie and grilled pork chop, and the range suits the room. A pair of apartments upstairs means you can eat yourself horizontal and sleep it off.
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Rank 14. The Peacock at Rowsley
Modern British
Ivy-clad stone manor beside the River Derwent, with oak furniture carved by the legendary "Mousey" Thompson and antique oils hung alongside contemporary art. The kitchen runs the full range, from ploughman's lunches and afternoon tea to a proper dinner tasting menu with wine pairings, plus Sunday roasts that draw the Peak District crowd in from the cold. A Modern British restaurant with rooms, and the surrounding hills give you a reason to stay.
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Rank 15. Prashad
Vegetarian Indian
A family-run vegetarian Indian restaurant in a former pub outside Bradford, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand for cooking rooted in Gujarati tradition. The bread alone, naan and rotli made with real care, would justify the drive. You can go à la carte, share a set menu, or commit to a full tasting, which for a place this warm and unfussy feels like exactly the right way to spend an evening.
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Rank 16. Stones Restaurant
Modern British
Floor-to-ceiling windows face the River Derwent, and a rear terrace puts you right above the water. This small Modern British restaurant sits at the bottom of a steep flight of steps off Dale Road, the kind of entrance that weeds out the faint-hearted. The kitchen cooks classic combinations with confidence rather than fuss, and the room has that easy warmth you get when the staff seem to like being there as much as the regulars do.
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A wood-burning oven anchors the open kitchen of this modern sharing-plates restaurant inside a traditional Yorkshire stone building. The menu has a Spanish spine, croquetas and boquerones and the like, but roams freely from Mexican tacos to Vietnamese prawn toast before landing back home for sticky toffee pudding. It earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the closely-set dark wood tables tend to fill early with locals who have clearly done this before.
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Rank 18. Cantaloupe
Mediterranean
A wine bar and restaurant on Great Underbank where the menu changes daily and the kitchen leans Mediterranean, so pasta and whole fish appear often but never exactly the same way twice. The wine list favors established growers, and the cooking is quiet and deliberate, the kind that trusts a good ingredient to do most of the talking. Michelin picked it up with a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a room this unfussy and this careful.
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The wine list includes bottles from a Loire Valley vineyard that one of the co-owners grew up on, which tells you something about how seriously this French bistro takes the whole project. Spindle-back chairs, gilt mirrors, green walls, a long banquette: the room looks the part too. Horsforth is an unlikely postcode for a Michelin Bib Gourmand, but the Gallic classics coming out of the kitchen make the suburb feel briefly like the 6th arrondissement.
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Rank 20. Where The Light Gets In
Modern British
A Victorian coffee warehouse turned loft restaurant, with an open kitchen that puts the cooks firmly in the room with you. The team runs a set sharing menu built on seasonal British produce, foraged finds, and a low-waste philosophy that keeps pickles and ferments busy. The same crew runs a bakery and pottery studio around the corner, which explains both the sourdough and the plates it arrives on. Walk-ins can grab a counter seat for bar snacks and low-intervention wines.
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Rank 21. Erst
Natural Mediterranean
Polished concrete and an all-natural wine list inside a converted Ancoats warehouse: Erst is a restaurant and wine bar that leans firmly into sharing plates of bright, punchy Mediterranean food. The menu is short and shifts often, the kind of place where you order everything and argue about nothing. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and squarely anti-glitz in a city that loves a big night out.
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Rank 22. mana
Modern British
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Rank 23. Skof
Modern British
A former textile warehouse in the NOMA district, exposed girders and all, now houses one of Manchester's more talked-about fine dining rooms. Tom Barnes ran the kitchen at L'Enclume before opening this tasting-menu restaurant, and the move from Cumbrian countryside to city center shows up on the plate: hyper-seasonal British produce sits alongside quietly global flavors, and the meal closes with a tiramisu that's a tribute to his late father. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 24. Higher Ground
Modern British
A long island counter runs the length of the room, doubling as open kitchen, pass, and bar, which tells you most of what you need to know about Higher Ground. It's a neo-bistro in Manchester's Chinatown where around ninety percent of the produce comes from the team's own partner farm in Cheshire. Sharing plates lean experimental and seasonal, and the wine list runs deep on low-intervention Europeans and grower champagnes. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 25. Winsome
Modern British
A stripped-back dining room inside the Whitworth Locke Hotel on Princess Street, where the kitchen counter runs long and the cooking leans into cold cuts, whole fish, and homemade pies without apology. Shaun Moffat, who made his name up the road at The Edinburgh Castle, brings the same produce-led instinct here: seasonal, regional, British, and genuinely unfussy. The National Restaurant Awards put it at number 67 in 2026.
- National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #67 · The National Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 26. Forde
Mediterranean
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Rank 27. The Spärrows
Eastern European
You ring a bell to get in, which sets the tone nicely. This cozy Eastern European restaurant under Manchester's railway arches earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for house-made dumplings and pasta, from pierogi to pelmeni to gnocchi, balanced by bright salads for anyone who feels they should eat a vegetable. The wine list leans toward smaller producers, and there's a sake section that nobody saw coming. A bottle shop means you can keep the evening going at home.
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Rank 28. El Gato Negro
Spanish
Counter seats facing an open kitchen on the first floor give you the best view of the Josper grill doing its work at this tapas bar spread across three floors on a pedestrianised stretch of King Street. The ground floor has a proper bar, the roof terrace is up top, and a crema catalana on the menu keeps the classical end honest. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the room is loud in the way that means people are having a good time.
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Rank 29. Sampa
Brazilian
A 12-seat chef's counter so clandestine that the address only arrives 24 hours before you eat and a sign goes up outside just 20 minutes before service. Caroline Martins runs a Brazilian tasting menu here, greeting guests with real warmth and a parade of dishes built around the flavors she grew up with. Wear something you feel good in; the room is intimate enough that you'll be part of the performance whether you planned on it or not.
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Rank 30. posie
Mediterranean
Thirty-plus cocktails and a natural-wine list that skews global set the tone at this small-plates and drinks spot tucked into Spring Gardens. The team behind 10 Tib Lane runs the room, and the food punches above its snack-sized ambitions: Jersey oysters come dressed several ways, and the Guinness rarebit on toast with pickled cauliflower has its own loyal following. When the menu feels overwhelming, the staff are the kind who actually help.
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Rank 31. Adam Reid at The French
Modern British New American
The menu descriptions here say things like "Fungi" and "Fish," which tells you nothing until a chef appears at your table to explain and finish the dish in front of you. This is a fine dining room inside the grand old Midland Hotel, done up in Belle Époque splendor, but Adam Reid's multi-course cooking leans into his northern roots rather than the Gallic name above the door.
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A tall, narrow townhouse tucked off the main drag, with a cosy bar on the ground floor where you're encouraged to linger over a natural wine before heading up to one of the dining rooms above. The look is rustic with a faint industrial edge, and the modern European menu leans into Spanish and French ideas without making a fuss about it. Oysters and cheese beignets are a fine way to start deciding what comes next.
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Rank 33. Pip
Modern British
Mary-Ellen McTague, a vocal champion of the northwest, runs the kitchen at this Modern British restaurant inside the Treehouse Hotel. Repurposed wood, vintage odds and ends, and splashes of colour give it a cozy, slightly eccentric feel. The menu leans on local Lancashire produce, and the hot pot alone makes a fairly compelling case for the region. Staff are the genuinely enthusiastic kind, not the trained-smile kind.
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Rank 34. Stow
Modern British
Fire is the kitchen's main event at this intimate counter-dining spot on Bridge Street, where a small open kitchen puts the chefs close enough to hear the sizzle. The front bar does cocktails before and after, and the dining room feels like crashing a very good friend's private supper club. Ex-dairy beef gets a lot of attention, but the vegetable dishes hold their own alongside it. Listed in the Michelin Guide.
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Tucked into Deansgate Mews on an elevated walkway inside the old Great Northern building, this vegetable-forward sharing-plates bistro sources from local, ethical growers and lets each dish arrive one at a time so nothing gets lost in the crowd. The bread comes from Holy Grain next door, the wine list leans low-intervention, and the room runs warm and loud in the way that makes you order another round without noticing.
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Rank 36. Kallos Cafe & Wine Bar
Mediterranean Greek
A Greek all-day cafe and wine bar in Salford's Greengate development that shapeshifts depending on the hour, starting with brunch, then settling into meze and natural wine come evening. The lamb shoulder flatbread and chickpea stew do the heavy lifting on the menu, and tinned fish appears without irony. Service reads as genuinely warm rather than performative, which in a neighbourhood spot like this is the whole point.
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Rank 37. La Popote
Classic French
Brick floors, exposed beams, and a menu that opens with coq au vin: La Popote is a classic French restaurant tucked inside a converted barn on a Cheshire farm, which makes the cassoulet feel both completely out of place and exactly right. The team spent years cooking in Paris, and the food reads like they meant it. Friendly service, countryside quiet, and a clafoutis at the end.
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A stone building on a quiet Staffordshire canal, The Flintlock is a proper sit-down restaurant with two dining rooms full of period features and the kind of unhurried charm that makes you linger. The chef is self-taught, which the cooking doesn't apologize for, leaning into a modern style that lets the room do some of the heavy lifting. A canal stroll before dinner is genuinely part of the rhythm here.
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Rank 39. The Duncombe Arms
Modern British
A terrace overlooking the Staffordshire countryside and a red-brick barn converted into bedrooms next door make this dining pub feel like someone's particularly sorted country house. That someone rescued the village local when it closed, and the kitchen has since earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand turning out Modern British cooking that's hearty without being heavy. Prices stay honest, the portions don't.
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Six tables, four counter seats, and Michael O'Hare doing whatever he wants, which turns out to be a constantly shifting parade of small, technically intricate courses in a quietly modern room in a smart Yorkshire village. The chef's cult following will recognize the restless creativity and the occasional Asian detour, like Peking-style duck appearing somewhere unexpected. A wine flight is the move.
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Rank 41. Restaurant ÖRME
Modern British
A small modern British restaurant in Urmston where three young owners run a tight, Nordic-feeling room, all clean lines and an open kitchen you can watch from your seat. The menus cover tasting options, à la carte, and a Sunday roast, with British produce doing most of the heavy lifting. A British wine flight is available for those who like their theme fully committed.
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The open kitchen faces every table at this Michelin-starred creative tasting menu restaurant on the Rudding Park estate, so you're watching the chefs the whole time, which sounds like pressure but somehow isn't. Ingredients come from 52 raised beds on site, with preserves lining the shelves behind the pass. At dessert, guests pick a track to play while puddings arrive, which is either charming or deeply chaotic depending on who's at your table.
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Rank 43. alchemilla
Modern British
Vaulted red-brick arches from a Victorian carriage house give Alchemilla its bones, while a living wall and roof garden signal that the chef had other ideas. Alex Bond's Michelin-starred modern British cooking leans hard into contrast, pairing sweet, sour, and citrus in ways that feel intuitive rather than engineered. The wine list tilts natural and slightly esoteric, which fits the room perfectly.
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A former silk mill canteen beside a weir on the River Derwent, this modern brasserie has the kind of setting that does half the work. Ask for a window table upstairs or a spot on the narrow terrace and watch the water. The menu ranges wide, from wood-fired plates and pasta through to steaks, including a tomahawk built for two, so the table tends to last a while.
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A flyover and a shabby lane lead you to Sat Bains' two Michelin star tasting menu restaurant, which is either a statement of intent or a very good joke, probably both. Inside, 28 covers keep things intimate, and you can also book the four-seat Kitchen Bench in the pastry section or watch the savoury kitchen from the Tasting Room. The cooking shifts constantly, dish by dish, week by week, restless by design.
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Rank 46. Box Tree
Modern British
Two sandstone cottages on a Yorkshire high street that have been feeding people since before most of their diners were born. Box Tree is a formal tasting-menu restaurant where the chef grew up between Western Australia and Britain, and the menu quietly shows it, with Jarrah honey and Paddle Pop ice cream appearing alongside the kind of cooking you'd expect from a room this serious. The team pulls off warmth without dropping the white-tablecloth register.
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Rank 47. LI~LY by Aiden Byrne
Modern British
A black-and-white timbered building in the middle of Knutsford hides a surprisingly bright, contemporary dining room inside. Aiden Byrne runs a tasting menu restaurant here, with the kind of precisely assembled plates that make you feel someone really thought about them. Byrne has a habit of delivering dishes himself, and his enthusiasm for what he's put in front of you comes across as completely unperformed.
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An Arts and Crafts building on a quiet Marygate street, this Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant is the York sibling of Tommy Banks' Black Swan in Oldstead. The same farm-to-table ethos runs through it: kitchen garden, small regional suppliers, and Banks family farm produce shape the menu season by season. Dishes read as simple and arrive looking it, then turn out to be quietly complex in a way that makes you stop mid-conversation.
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Rank 49. Piccalilli
Modern British
Down an alley and up a stairs in central Nottingham, Piccalilli is a small-plates spot tucked inside a period building with exposed brick, heavy timbers, and dried flowers overhead. The kind of room that makes you feel you've found something. Three or four plates per person is the move, and the cooking keeps flavours familiar enough to trust while doing something considered with them. The wine list is short and fairly priced. A Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 50. Kushi-Ya
Japanese
Tucked behind the arch of Enfield Chambers, this compact Japanese small-plates and skewers spot holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The charcoal grill does most of the talking, turning out skewers that smell like they mean it. No bookings, so the lunchtime crowd forms early and moves fast. A courtyard terrace softens the urgency once you're in. The kind of place where the bill arrives and you quietly do the math twice.
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Rank 51. Ibérico World Tapas
Mediterranean
The dining room sits in the vaulted basement of Nottingham's old city law courts, which does give a certain dramatic quality to ordering small plates. Ibérico is a tapas restaurant with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and its menu roams well beyond Spain, pulling in yuzu and dukkah alongside the Mediterranean anchors. Four dishes a head is about right. The crowd tends toward people who've been before and already know what they're getting.
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Rank 52. Lighthouse Restaurant
Modern British
A self-taught chef running an intimate Modern British restaurant in the Derbyshire countryside sounds like either a love story or a cautionary tale; here it's the former. The menu swings between a full tasting format and a shorter sharing menu on weekdays, with the kitchen leaning hard into seasonal cooking and the occasional Thai-inspired detour, like a coconut and chilli broth that earns its place on the table.
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Rank 53. The Reindeer
British
A village pub down a narrow country lane in Nottinghamshire, with a view over the local cricket pitch that does a lot of the decorating. The cooking is resolutely traditional, bangers and mash and Sunday roasts done with care, plus a weekly pie night whose fillings change to keep regulars guessing. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which feels about right for a place this unfussy and this good at the basics.
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A Lancashire village pub that kept its bar stools and lost its pub menu. Chef Joe McLeod took over The Spread Eagle and now runs an à la carte alongside a monthly tasting menu, both leaning toward generous, boldly flavoured plates that have little to do with what the previous landlord was serving. The room feels like a local because it still is one, which makes the cooking land as a genuine surprise. The team are the kind of warm that you remember on the drive home.
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A one-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant in a 16th-century farmhouse so deep in North Lincolnshire that the owners run their own smallholding to stock the kitchen. The surprise menu reads like a personal diary, Yorkshire nods sitting beside refined chicken tacos and lamb kebab, which sounds like a strange dinner party but somehow makes the chef's cooking feel more considered, not less. Sumptuous rooms upstairs if the drive back feels unkind.
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Rank 56. Raymond's
Modern British
Fish crackling lands first, a snack that functions as a mission statement for the meal ahead. Raymond's is a sharing-plates spot in Nottingham's Lace Market, the kind of room with counter seats, moody lighting, and a wine list heavy on by-the-glass options, as if someone sat down and ticked every box on the modern restaurant checklist. The crowd seems entirely unbothered by that, and honestly, so will you.
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Rank 57. Northcote
Modern British
A glass-walled Chef's Table room overlooks the kitchen at this Michelin-starred country house restaurant in Lancashire, where Lisa Goodwin-Allen's cooking leans hard on the kitchen garden and local biodynamic suppliers. The food is Modern British with genuine conviction, bold flavours in combinations that feel considered rather than clever. An extensive wine list rounds out what is, by any measure, a serious dinner out in the countryside.
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Rank 58. Restaurant DOM
Polish Eastern European
Shelves of house-made jams, pickles, and preserves line the wood-clad interior, and in winter some of them find their way onto the plate. Restaurant DOM is a smart modern dining room in central Scunthorpe where the chef's Polish heritage shapes the menu in ways that feel personal rather than performative, grandmother's sauerkraut recipe included. Bedrooms are coming, but the kitchen is already the reason to make the trip.
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Fourteen seats, a marble-wrapped open kitchen, and a tasting menu where every course is named after a single ingredient, which tells you something about the confidence level in the room. Kenny Atkinson's fine dining follow-up to House of Tides is a deliberately smaller, quieter thing, built around 15-odd courses of precise modern cooking. Newcastle, it turns out, can do this.
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Rank 60. Skosh
Modern British New American
The name comes from a Japanese word for "small amount," which doubles as a menu philosophy: sharing plates, six or seven between two, built around bold flavors that roam freely from South Asia to the Middle East and beyond. It's a lively, informal spot on Micklegate with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of room where the food makes conversation stop mid-sentence. Book ahead; York has noticed.
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Rank 61. Melton's
Modern British
Murals of ingredients and happy diners cover the walls at this cosy neighbourhood restaurant, which feels like a self-portrait the place has earned. A short walk from York's centre, it runs on local produce and long-serving staff who know the room. The cooking is classically grounded but quietly ambitious, and if a soufflé appears on the dessert menu, it would be rude not to order it.
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Rank 62. Legacy
Modern British
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Rank 63. The Star Inn The City
Modern British
A Victorian brick engine house beside Museum Gardens, with big windows and a terrace over the river, is where this all-day brasserie sets up shop. It's the city sibling of The Star Inn at Harome, and the menu leans into hearty Modern British cooking rooted in Yorkshire produce, with enough polish to remind you this isn't a pub, even if the spirit of one is somewhere in the room.
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Rank 64. INOS
Greek
A casual Greek bistro in the heart of York, where the menu runs through pita and dips, meatballs, and moussaka before landing on a Cretan orange cake that earns its place at the end of a meal. The room is cheerful and unfussy, the service warm, and the Greek wines and spirits give the whole thing a coherent logic. Good value at lunch, when the city's historic centre hums outside.
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Rank 66. Fish & Forest
Modern British
A self-taught chef runs this snug Modern British restaurant tucked down a cobbled lane near the Shambles, where the blackboard menu shifts constantly and almost nothing goes to waste. The name maps the sourcing: fish from small boats, game from local shoots, and meat raised with some attention to how the animal actually lived. It's the kind of cooking that sounds earnest on paper but tastes like someone means it.
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Rank 67. White Bull
British
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Rank 68. Arras
Mediterranean
A converted coaching house on the edge of the old city, Arras is a modern dining restaurant where the bread alone, baked at their sister bakery Little Arras, sets a promising tone for what follows. The cooking moves with the seasons and leans into inventive combinations, while the British cheese selection arrives on a handmade oak trolley, which is the kind of detail that makes cheese people visibly emotional. The wine list gives English bottles a fair showing.
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Rank 69. The Bow Room at Grays Court
Modern British
The big bow window gives the room its name and most of its light, framing a walled garden that also supplies the kitchen. This is a Modern British restaurant tucked inside a Jacobean house beside York Minster, the kind of setting where a pre-dinner drink in the wood-panelled gallery feels entirely necessary. The menu follows the seasons closely, and the service has the easy warmth of people who seem to like their jobs.
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Rank 70. Alice Hawthorn Inn
British
A dining pub on a village green that happens to share its postcode with the country's tallest maypole and a duck pond, which tells you something about the pace of life here. The rooms are full of beams and exposed brick, as required by pub law, but the kitchen ranges freely: dynamite shrimp and ceviche sit alongside fish and chips without anyone apologizing. Bedrooms lean pleasantly Scandinavian. Welcoming from the start.
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Rank 71. Lunar
Modern New American
The plates here are genuine Wedgwood, which makes sense given the address: a sprawling modern dining room inside the World of Wedgwood visitor complex, built into what used to be the factory canteen. The kitchen leans on prime British ingredients, there's a tucked-away bar worth finding, and a chef's table with a window straight into the action. Josiah himself would probably approve, or at least recognize the crockery.
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Rank 72. Freemasons
Modern British
Down a narrow lane in the Ribble Valley, this stone village pub runs an open fire and antique furnishings that make the interior feel like it was assembled over centuries rather than decorated. The kitchen leans Modern British, pulling from local producers for dishes that have a bit of ambition about them. Four seats at the Chef's Bench put you in the middle of the kitchen, which is either a thrill or a lot of eye contact, depending on your disposition.
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Rank 73. Eight at Gazegill by Doug Crampton
Modern British
To get here, you drive through the working organic farm that grows much of what ends up on your plate, which sets the tone nicely. Eight is a modern British restaurant with bright, colourful interiors that feel deliberately cheerful against the Lancashire fields and Pendle Hill beyond the windows. The home-reared beef is the throughline, and the Sunday roast draws accordingly. Farm-to-fork as a concept rarely comes with this much literal farm.
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Rank 74. Chartwell
Modern New American
One of the bookshelves swings open to reveal a hidden bar, which tells you something about how seriously Aldwark Manor takes dinner. This country-house restaurant runs modern tasting menus with enough attention to detail that even the mirrors are rigged with camera feeds into the kitchen. Bold fabrics, sweeping lawn views, and a room that rewards looking closely make it worth arriving before dark.
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Rank 75. Little Seeds
Modern British
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Rank 76. Hope & Anchor
British
A glass-fronted dry-aging cabinet sits behind the bar of this nautically themed pub on the Humber estuary, which tells you roughly what kind of night you're in for. The kitchen leans into proper British cooking, with produce from their own smallholding and meats finished in a Josper oven. The cement works next door is not glamorous, but the estuary views go some way toward balancing the ledger.
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Rank 77. The Martins Arms
British
The carved Jacobean fireplace in the bar is reason enough to take a seat and stay awhile. This is a traditional country pub and dining room in the Nottinghamshire countryside, doing hearty British cooking without apology. The local Stilton is the thing to order: Colston Bassett is one of only six places in the world licensed to make it, so skipping the cheese course here would be a genuine act of self-sabotage.