Wine Spectator Award-Winning Restaurants in the United Kingdom

Beach House

Oxwich, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin-starred restaurant set in a converted coal store directly on Oxwich Beach, Beach House places Welsh produce at the centre of sophisticated, classically grounded cooking. Head Chef Hywel Griffith writes his menus in English and Welsh, with salt marsh lamb, laver seaweed bread, and the celebrated bara brith soufflé signalling where the kitchen's loyalties lie. Three menu formats run from three to eight courses.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, The Good Food Guide

Carbone

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Carbone brings New York Italian-American dining theatre to Grosvenor Square, with scarlet-and-cerulean rooms, tuxedoed service, a terrace facing Mayfair, and the familiar signatures: spicy rigatoni vodka, oversized meatballs, veal Parmesan, and dessert service from a silver platter. The appeal is less quiet trattoria than staged mid-century glamour, pitched at London’s appetite for high-production dining rooms.

Also recognized by Conde Nast, Prix Versailles

Charlie's

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Inside Brown's Hotel on Albemarle Street, Charlie's occupies one of Mayfair's most considered dining rooms, designed by Olga Polizzi with wood panelling, deep armchairs, and animal-adorned wallpaper that references Rudyard Kipling's time at the hotel. The kitchen, overseen by Adam Byatt, works a Modern British menu with a Mediterranean inflection — the homemade pasta is a reliable indicator of where the kitchen's attention sits. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025.

Chiltern Firehouse

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Chiltern Firehouse occupies a converted Victorian fire station in Marylebone, serving Modern European food in one of London's most closely watched dining rooms. Ranked #402 on Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list in 2024 and climbing to #599 in 2025, it draws a crowd that treats the room as destination as much as the plate. Reservations require planning.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Clos Maggiore

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Grand Award

A Covent Garden fixture with Michelin Plate recognition and one of London's most serious wine lists, Clos Maggiore occupies a particular niche in the city's French dining scene: seasonal, French-inspired cooking in a room that earns its reputation for atmosphere rather than spectacle. The conservatory with its retractable roof draws consistent demand; the 7,550-bottle cellar, strong in Burgundy and Bordeaux, does the rest.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes

Cooper’s Cut

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Cooper’s Cut belongs to the London dining conversation shaped by the City’s polished hotel rooms, corporate dining habits, and the heavier architecture around Trinity Square. With no public awards or price signals attached, it reads less as a trophy-table proposition than as a place to judge through setting, format, and location within a high-pressure part of the capital.

Cut at 45 Park Lane

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Cut at 45 Park Lane brings Wolfgang Puck's American steakhouse format to Mayfair, positioning prime beef at the upper end of London's formal dining tier. With a wine list of 690 selections and recognition from Opinionated About Dining's European Classical rankings, the restaurant sits within a small cohort of hotel dining rooms that compete on the same terms as standalone fine-dining destinations. Open daily for lunch and dinner.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Opinionated About Dining

Dinings SW3

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Dinings SW3 brings Japanese-European fusion cooking to a Chelsea mews address, earning consecutive placements in the Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Europe rankings (ranked 214th in 2024, 248th in 2025) alongside a Star Wine List White Star for its 965-bottle cellar. Chef-owner Masaki Sugisaki runs lunch and dinner service six days a week, with a wine program overseen by Wine Director Christopher Frayling-Cork that skews heavily toward Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Doppo

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Doppo is a 40-cover Tuscan-accented restaurant on Dean Street in Soho, operating permanently since March 2023 after launching as a pop-up. The kitchen and front-of-house teams carry Michelin-starred and private-members' club pedigree, while the wine programme — a Star Wine List highly ranked finalist with World of Fine Wine 3-Star accreditation — turns over roughly 30 new references each month.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Dovetale

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Inside 1 Hotel Mayfair, Dovetale applies the logic of European classics to ingredients with serious provenance credentials: Somerset chicken, Oxfordshire venison, and Dover sole given a sole véronique treatment. The wine list runs to 1,200 selections and holds two consecutive Star Wine List top rankings. This is Mayfair fine dining stripped of gimmicks but not of ambition.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, The Good Food Guide, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Embers

Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A wood-fire bistro in Brighton's Lanes with a Michelin Plate and a menu built around sharing. Small plates and centrepiece dishes carry the smoky signature of birch and ash throughout, from charred broccoli to venison rump. Prices sit in the mid-range for Brighton, making this one of the more convincing value propositions in the city's modern dining scene.

Also recognized by The Good Food Guide

Empire Empire

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

From the Gunpowder group comes this Notting Hill neighbourhood restaurant focused on Punjab and Northwest India, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2024. Coloured tile floors, a vintage jukebox, and Indian disco artwork set the scene, while the kitchen delivers biryani, kebabs, and kadhai masala with evident confidence. Butter chicken is the house speciality, and the.

Also recognized by The Good Food Guide

Forest Side

Grasmere, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin-starred hotel restaurant in a Victorian fellside mansion near Grasmere, Forest Side places produce from its kitchen garden and surrounding landscape at the centre of Paul Leonard's modern British cooking. Four and eight-course formats at dinner sit inside a broader northwest England fine dining scene that punches well above its rural postcode, with La Liste ranking it among the leading restaurants in the world.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Harden's, La Liste, National Restaurant Awards

Franco's

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

One of London's longest-standing Italian restaurants, Franco's on Jermyn Street has held a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025 and earned a White Star from Star Wine List for its 415-selection, Italy-focused cellar. The kitchen turns out classically grounded dishes — veal and beef lasagne, linguine with lobster — with a consistency that keeps a loyal crowd returning. The wine list leans hard into Tuscany and Piedmont, with serious Barolo representation across 2,500 bottles.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Home

Penarth, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin-starred family operation in Penarth where James Sommerin and his daughter Georgia run the open kitchen together, producing an eight-course surprise menu rooted in Welsh and British produce. La Liste ranked it 80 points in 2025, and the intimate seven-table room — described as having a 1960s recording studio atmosphere — makes it among the more personal dining formats in Wales.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Harden's, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Jamavar

London, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Jamavar on Mount Street brings the cooking traditions of India's royal kitchens to the centre of Mayfair, with a menu that spans regions from Old Delhi to Kerala. Ranked 199th among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it operates inside the Sheraton Grand Hotel under the ownership of Katara Hospitality, pairing an extensive wine list with precisely spiced cooking that holds its own against London's most serious dining rooms.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, The Good Food Guide

Kerridge's Bar & Grill

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Kerridge's Bar & Grill brings Tom Kerridge's signatures — premium British produce, steak-focused mains, and playful flourishes like salt cod Scotch egg — into the grand dining room of the Corinthia hotel on Northumberland Avenue. The wine list runs to 835 selections across 4,250 bottles, skewing toward France, Italy, and Iberia. A Michelin Plate holder ranked #490 in OAD Casual Europe 2024, it operates at the heavier end of London's hotel-dining bracket.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Opinionated About Dining

La Petite Maison

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Open since 2007, La Petite Maison transplants the spirit of Nice's celebrated restaurant of the same name to a Mayfair mews address where the crowd is well-heeled and the cooking leans hard into sun-drenched Provençal and Niçoise tradition. It sits in a different register from the neighbourhood's Michelin-heavy French houses, trading tasting-menu formality for shared plates, confident Mediterranean flavours, and a room that functions as much as a social occasion as a meal.

Also recognized by Harden's, Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Lady of the Grapes

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Covent Garden wine bar with 525 selections and nearly 2,000 bottles in inventory, Lady of the Grapes has climbed from a neighbourhood spot to an Opinionated About Dining-ranked address, moving from #827 in 2025 to #673 in 2024 on the Casual Europe list. French and small-plates cooking pairs with a Franco-Italian wine focus priced at mid-range markups, open Tuesday through Sunday on Maiden Lane.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Lucky Cat by Gordon Ramsay

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Occupying the former Maze site on Grosvenor Square, Lucky Cat by Gordon Ramsay brings a moody, sharing-format approach to Asian cuisine in Mayfair. Japanese and Chinese influences combine with British ingredients across a menu built for the table rather than the individual. The wine list runs to 170 selections with a French-leaning bias and a Michelin Plate recognition that has been sustained across consecutive years.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Lumière

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Cheltenham's sole Michelin-starred restaurant, Lumière sits on Clarence Parade in a deliberately understated townhouse that has held a single star since 2024. Jon Howe's seasonal tasting menus draw on produce from his own smallholding, placing classical technique alongside a playful edge. With just a handful of evening services each week, it operates at the quieter, more intimate end of the Cotswolds fine-dining tier.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, The Good Food Guide

Nobu

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Nobu Park Lane opened in 1997 as Nobu Matsuhisa's first European outpost, introducing London to Nikkei-fusion Japanese cooking and dishes like black cod with miso that have since become reference points for the genre. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked among Opinionated About Dining's top restaurants, it sits at the £££ tier in Mayfair, with a 650-label wine list and a reputation that has outlasted its A-list heyday by several decades.

Also recognized by Harden's, Opinionated About Dining, World's 50 Best

Northcote

Langho, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms in Lancashire's Ribble Valley, Northcote has anchored serious northern dining for over four decades. Under Lisa Goodwin-Allen's kitchen leadership and Craig Bancroft's front-of-house stewardship, the cooking draws on local, biodynamic and organic produce to deliver modern British food with genuine regional identity. La Liste ranked it 87 points in 2026, placing it comfortably among the country's most consistent destination restaurants outside London.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Harden's, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Number One

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Occupying the basement of the Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street, Number One is Edinburgh's most formally appointed fine dining room, where red lacquered walls, well-spaced banquettes, and a menu anchored in Scottish produce sit alongside a 3,000-bottle wine list curated by Wine Director Callum McCann. Chef Matthew Sherry holds a Michelin Plate and a 2026 La Liste ranking of 77 points, placing the restaurant firmly in the city's top tier of classical dining.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Harden's, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Palomar

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2024 and ranked among Europe's top casual dining destinations by Opinionated About Dining, Palomar has been translating the flavours of modern Jerusalem for Soho since the mid-2010s. The zinc counter facing an open kitchen remains the place to sit, where fire-cooked meats, kubaneh bread, and vegetable-forward plates anchor a menu rooted in Levantine, North African, and Iberian crosscurrents. At the ££ price point, it represents one of central London's most credentialled Middle Eastern tables.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, The Good Food Guide, We're Smart World

Parlour

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Ranked #525 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list in 2024 and climbing to #818 in 2025, Parlour in Kensal Rise operates in the register of serious neighbourhood cooking without the formality of central London's dining rooms. Chef Jesse Dunford Wood leads a Modern European kitchen where French technique anchors a menu built for daily eating, backed by a wine list of 260 selections and 1,300 bottles in inventory.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Top 50 Gastropubs

Pavyllon London

London, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Pavyllon London sits inside the Four Seasons Hotel on Hamilton Place, Mayfair, bringing Yannick Alléno's French contemporary cooking to the UK for the first time. Led in the kitchen by Chef Benjamin Ferra Y Castell, the counter-fronted dining room applies classic French foundations to ingredients from across the Mediterranean and beyond. Set menus represent one focused way to engage with the format.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Opinionated About Dining

Pipe and Glass

South Dalton, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A 15th-century former gatehouse deep in the East Yorkshire countryside, Pipe and Glass holds a Michelin star while operating as a genuine village pub — daily specials built around what the Yorkshire larder delivers that week, smart rooms for those staying the night, and a kitchen that treats dressed crab with the same seriousness as any city tasting menu.

Also recognized by The Good Food Guide, Top 50 Gastropubs

Ravello

Montgomery, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Wine Director Nicholas Wyatt oversees both the cellar and general management, while Chef James Hicks handles the kitchen. For a city with limited fine-dining options, Ravello offers a degree of wine seriousness that reaches well beyond its price tier.

Seahorse

Dartmouth, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin Plate-recognised seafood bistro on Dartmouth's South Embankment, Seahorse holds a prime position overlooking the Dart Estuary and has built a reputation over decades on daily-landed local catch cooked through an Italian-inflected lens. The daily-changing menu draws on Torbay and Dorset waters, with a wine list that treats European varieties as ingredients in their own right rather than afterthoughts.

Also recognized by National Restaurant Awards, The Good Food Guide, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Sushi Amamoto

London, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Taku places Mayfair omakase in a tighter, more ingredient-led register: 16 seats around an English oak counter, French-Japanese framing, and seafood sourced largely from European waters. The format is disciplined rather than theatrical, with Chef Takuya Watanabe, Long Ng, and a 200-selection France-leaning wine list giving the room serious technical weight.

The Conservatory

Titchwell, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Set within Titchwell Manor's bright glass-walled dining room overlooking walled gardens on the North Norfolk coast, The Conservatory holds a 2025 Michelin Plate for cooking that draws on seafood from Brancaster Staithe and game from local estates. The approach is deliberately restrained: seasonal ingredients, modern technique, and a wine list of 1,200 selections that spans Burgundy, California, and beyond.

The Dining Room

New Milton, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

The Dining Room at Chewton Glen brings Asian and European cooking together under a wine program of serious depth — 730 selections across 15,200 bottles, with particular strength in Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Also recognized by Relais Chateaux

The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant

Crieff, United Kingdom

2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Set inside Scotland's oldest working distillery, The Glenturret Lalique holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 95 points, placing it firmly among Scotland's most decorated dining rooms. Chef Mark Donald's multi-course tasting menu at £220 per person draws on ingredients from across the Highlands and beyond, served beneath Lalique crystal chandeliers in a seven-table dining room that reads as one of the southern Highlands' more serious fine-dining propositions.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Harden's, La Liste, National Restaurant Awards

The Neptune

Hunstanton, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms inside an 18th-century coaching inn on the Norfolk coast, The Neptune operates four evenings a week with a short set menu or nine-course tasting menu built around seasonal, locally sourced produce. The husband-and-wife operation has held its star since the Mangeolles opened in 2007, making it the reference point for serious dining across the North Norfolk stretch.

Also recognized by The Good Food Guide

The Old Butchers

Stow-on-the-Wold, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A Michelin Plate holder for consecutive years, The Old Butchers has anchored Stow-on-the-Wold's dining scene for over two decades under the Robinson family. Peter Robinson's kitchen centres on a charcoal grill and confident seafood work — Cornish scallops, Dover sole meunière — in a quirkily decorated former butcher's shop. At the ££ price point, it sits well above the Cotswolds pub-lunch bracket without reaching into destination-tasting territory.

The Parsons Table

Arundel, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin Plate holder tucked into Castle Mews in the centre of Arundel, The Parsons Table is a husband-and-wife operation that exemplifies what small-town British dining does well: classically grounded cooking with a modern sensibility, delivered without pretension. Price range sits at £££, making it a considered but not extravagant choice for the area.

The Pelican

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

The Pelican in London reimagines a Victorian pub as a Modern British gastropub. Must-try plates include Mince on Toast, Spider Crab Toast and whole roasted turbot, each showcasing seasonal British produce. The kitchen focuses on direct techniques—slow roast, coastal steaming and precise pan-searing—while a 95-selection wine list (inventory ~1,150 bottles) and craft beer program provide exacting pairings. Included in the Michelin Guide and rooted in Notting Hill community life, The Pelican delivers warm, unpretentious service and bold, ingredient-first flavors in a high-ceilinged, pared-back setting.

Also recognized by The Good Food Guide, Top 50 Gastropubs

The Tudor Pass

Egham, United Kingdom

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Inside Great Fosters, a hotel with origins stretching back centuries, The Tudor Pass operates from a seven-table dining room framed by mullioned windows and an original Tudor fireplace. A Michelin-starred tasting menu format — four courses from £95 at lunch, up to £155 in the evening — sits within one of Surrey's most architecturally distinctive settings, with chefs presenting each dish at the table.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Harden's

The Twenty Two

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin Plate holder on Grosvenor Square, The Twenty Two pitches Mediterranean cooking at a price point that sits below Mayfair's top tier without conceding on address or seriousness. The room draws an evening crowd looking for something more considered than a neighbourhood brasserie, and the wine list runs to 1,850 selections with enough range to reward those who spend time with it.

Also recognized by World's Best Wine Lists Awards

The Walled Gardens Underground Restaurant

Manchester, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Eddie Shepherd's Whalley Range underground restaurant operates on a strict limited-capacity format, sending twelve plant-based courses through a sequence of technical precision that has drawn visiting chefs from across Europe. Ranked #520 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Europe for 2025, it sits in a narrow tier of serious vegetarian tasting menus in the UK. Book well ahead — seats are genuinely scarce.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, We're Smart World

The Woodspeen

Newbury, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A restored 19th-century farmhouse on the edge of Newbury, The Woodspeen holds a Michelin Plate and a consistent presence in the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe rankings, reaching #400 in 2024 and #415 in 2025. Seasonal menus draw from a working kitchen garden and the wider Berkshire countryside, with a wine list of 540 selections overseen by Wine Director Edoardo Amadi.

Also recognized by AA Rosettes, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, The Good Food Guide

Twelve

Thornton, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Twice awarded the Michelin Bib Gourmand, Twelve sits in the shadow of one of Europe's tallest working windmills in Thornton-Cleveleys and has been quietly redefining what a neighbourhood restaurant can achieve for over two decades. The kitchen, led by chef Colin Wyatt, delivers Modern British cooking with real flavour from deceptively simple ingredients, while a cocktail bar and wine list of 300 selections round out an evening worth the drive from anywhere on the Fylde Coast.

Also recognized by Esquire

Wilton’s

London, United Kingdom

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

One of London's oldest surviving restaurants, Wilton's on Jermyn Street has operated since its origins as an 18th-century shellfish stall. The menu pivots on British seafood and seasonal game, anchored by a carving trolley at lunch and a wine list that runs deep into Burgundy and Bordeaux. Dress code is enforced; the formality is the point.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, The Good Food Guide, World's Best Wine Lists Awards