AA Restaurant Guide 2023 reveals culinary excellence from across the country

Alex South

Editor

AA Publishing has launched The Restaurant Guide 2023 featuring over 1,400 restaurants which have been awarded Rosettes for culinary excellence by the AA’s professional inspectors.

Simon Numphud, Managing Director of AA Media, said: “We are delighted to publish the leading guide to the UK’s top dining destinations, with 150 new establishments added to The Restaurant Guide 2023."

Highlighting the divese entries, Simon added: "From Northern Stars to the Heart of England, Scotland to the capital, the restaurants in this year’s Guide demonstrate the high quality of culinary experiences across the country, offering delicious food and service of the highest standard.”

The top counties in the UK with the highest number of restaurants featured in The Restaurant Guide 2023 are: London (with 172 restaurants in the Guide this year), North Yorkshire (68), Devon (59), Cumbria (57), Cornwall (42), Gloucestershire and Norfolk (38), and Hampshire (36), Suffolk (32), Kent (31) and Oxfordshire (30).

In Scotland, Edinburgh leads the way with 29 restaurants featured in the Guide, followed by The Highlands (27) and Perth & Kinross (20).

Conwy is the Welsh county with the highest number of restaurants (11), followed by Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire with 9 each. County Antrim is the foodie capital of Northern Ireland outside of Belfast, with both destinations having 6 restaurants in the Guide.

Now in its 29th edition, The Restaurant Guide 2023 provides food lovers with breakdowns of restaurants by county, including a detailed description of each destination, information on latest chef changes, opening times, sample menu prices and images of many of the featured locations.

For those looking for the best establishments in the UK’s culinary scene, ‘The Top Restaurants of 2023’ features all 3, 4 and 5 Rosette restaurants.

Over 150 restaurants featured in the guide for the first time, including: No. Fifty Cheyne (London, SW3); The Jackdaw (Conwy); Grace & Savour (Solihull, West Midlands); The Flitch of Bacon (Little Dunmow, Essex); The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant (Crieff, Perth & Kinross) and Haar (St Andrews, Fife).

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