The Good Food Guide has named its most exciting restaurants across the UK for 2022 – and two top Scottish locations have made the list. The influential foodie site announced its top 20 for 2022 at a glittering event in London hosted by long-standing editor Elizabeth Carter.
The site, which is in its 70th year and aims to provide modern diners with a "much-needed, up-to-the-minute" independent guide on the best places to eat across the UK.
Considered to be the longest-standing guide on dining out, the Good Food Guide picked out Inver in Argyll and Condita in Edinburgh as two of the twenty most exciting restaurants in the UK this year.
Chosen by The Good Food Guide’s independent, impartial inspectors, the restaurants were chosen from a list of recommendations from anonymous inspections, where every meal was paid for in full, which they say ensures "integrity and impartiality" with each review.
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Inver in Strachur, a small village on the shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll and Bute, is located in a former crofter’s cottage and boat store, Inver is run by award-winning chef Pamela Brunton and her husband Rob, who took over the site in 2015.
As well as this latest award, it's won many plaudits for its exceptional dishes and service including becoming one of the first restaurants in the country to be awarded a Michelin Green Star, which recognises sustainable gastronomy.
It was also recently chosen as the best eatery in the country by the National Restaurant Awards.
Condita in the capital was also named in the Good Food Guide list, with the restaurant, which is run by chef Conor Toomey, also one of the ten restaurants in Scotland to have a Michelin Star.
The cosy restaurant is found at Salisbury Place and offers a blind seasonal tasting menu expertly curated by Toomey and his team that has won the little restaurant more than its fair share of impressive awards.
The full Top 20 list is below:
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L’Enclume, Cumbria
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Ynyshir, Ceredigion
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Moor Hall, Lancashire
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The Raby Hunt, Co Durham
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The Sportsman, Kent
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Outlaw’s New Road, Cornwall
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Osip, Somerset
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Pollen Street Social, London
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Inver, Argyll & Bute
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Wilderness, Birmingham
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Restaurant Story, London
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SY23, Ceredigion
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Pine, Northumberland
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Annwn, Pembrokeshire
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Condita, Edinburgh
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Grace & Savour, West Midlands
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Da Terra, London
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Carters of Moseley, Birmingham
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Kol, London
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Endo at The Rotunda, London
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