Bavette in Leeds tops Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Local Restaurants list 2024

The pair added: “Our sign above the door says, ‘a neighbourhood bistro’, and being a great local restaurant is everything we wanted Bavette to be. Thank you to everyone who has come through our doors over the past five months, you’ve made Bavette what it is.”

This year’s Best Local Restaurants list received an unprecedented 60,000 nominations. Inspectors anonymously tested out all the main contenders during a six-week research period to create the final 100-strong list.

The full list of 100 Best Local Restaurants 2024

Central and East of England 
 
Greyhound Inn, Pettistree, East Suffolk (regional winner)

L’Hexagone Bistro Français, Norwich 

Darley’s Restaurant, Darley Abbey, Derby

Fancett’s Bistro, Cambridge 

The Gin Trap Inn, Ringstead, Dorset

The Kilpeck Inn, Kilpeck, Herefordshire

Hitchen’s Barn, Oakham, Rutland

The Trooper, Aldbury, Hertfordshire

The Plough, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire

Chapter, Birmingham 

Benoli, Norwich 

Tropea, Birmingham 

Lark, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 
 
 
London 
 
Mambow, Clapton (regional winner)

Sam’s Waterside, Brentford 

Les 2 Garçons, Crouch End 

The Parakeet, Kentish Town 

Home SW15, Putney 

Josephine, Chelsea 

Paulette, Maida Vale 

Giulia, Shepherd’s Bush 

Rubedo, Stoke Newington  
 
 
North East England  
 
Bavette, Leeds (overall winner)

Homestead Kitchen, Goathland, North Yorkshire

The Small Canteen, Newcastle upon Tyne

 
The Empire Cafe, Leeds 

The Orange Bird, Sheffield 

Origin Social, Northallerton 

The Hispanist, Hull 

Long Friday, Newcastle upon Tyne 

Brook’s, Brighouse, West Yorkshire

Ophelia, South Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne

Hearth, Hull 

Coin, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

Hern, Leeds 
 
 
North West England  
 
Cibus, Levenshulme, Manchester (regional winner)

Lily’s Vegetarian Indian Cuisine, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester

Bombay to Mumbai, Stockport

Edinburgh Castle, Manchester

 
Higher Ground, Manchester

 
Another Hand, Manchester

 
The Spärrows, Manchester

 
The Rum Fox, Grindleton, Lancashire

A Se Anar, Blackpool

 
The Pearl, Prestwich, Bury

The Yan, Grasmere, Cumbria

Belzan, Liverpool 

Covino, Chester 
 
 
Scotland  
 
Fin & Grape, Edinburgh (regional winner)

The Kinneuchar Inn, Kilconquhar, Fife

L’Escargot Bleu, Edinburgh

The Gordon Arms, Selkirk 

The Dory Bistro, Pittenweem, Fife

The Palmerston, Edinburgh 

The Whitehouse, Lochaline, Morvern

Provender, Melrose 

Gloriosa, Glasgow 

Leftfield, Edinburgh
 
 
South East England  
 
Med, Brighton, East Sussex [regional winner]

The Folkestone Wine Company, Folkestone, Kent

The Bottle & Glass Inn, Binfield Heath, Oxfordshire

Harbour Street Tapas, Whitstable, Kent

Fourth and Church, Hove, East Sussex

The Blue Pelican, Deal, Kent

The Woodspeen, Woodspeen, Berkshire

The Pilgrim, North Marston, Buckinghamshire

Seasonality, Maidenhead, Berkshire

Mori Mori, Margate, Kent

Pompette, Oxford

Palmito, Hove, East Sussex

Tallow, Southborough, Kent
 
 
South West England  

North Street Kitchen, Fowey, Cornwall (regional winner)

The Farm Table at Darts Farm, Topsham, Devon

Upstairs at Landrace, Bath

The Barrington Boar, Barrington, Somerset

 
The Scallop Shell, Bath

The Farmers Arms, Bideford, Devon

 
The Lost Kitchen, Chettiscombe, Devon

 
Wild Artichokes, Kingsbridge, South Hams

Caper and Cure, Bristol

Tare Bistro, Bristol

Root Wells, Wells, Somerset

Sam & Jak, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Brassica, Beaminster, Dorset

Noah’s, Bristol

Edie’s, St Austell, Cornwall
 
 
Wales  
 
Inn at the Sticks, Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire (regional winner)

The Shed Restaurant, Swansea

Yr Hen Printworks, Cardigan, Ceredigion

Paternoster Farm, Pembroke 

Freckled Angel, Menai Bridge, Anglesey

Hare & Hounds, Aberthin, Vale of Glamorgan,

 
Sage Kitchen, Menai Bridge, Anglesey

The Warren, Carmarthen

 
Catch 22, Holyhead, Anglesey

Y Polyn, Nantgaredig, Carmarthenshire

Mesen, Cardiff

The Dining Room, Abersoch, Gwynedd