When Raymond Blanc’s Les Quat’Saisons first appeared in the Guide in 1978, it declared ‘there is little better cooking for many miles’. By 1983 the Guide reported ‘this beautiful restaurant has outgrown its shop’ in a precinct on the Banbury Road and deserves 'a mansion with with two-hundred-year-old trees outside'.
For the past 70 years, The Good Food Guide has been the trusted guide on where to eat across Great Britain. Now, after a two-year enforced break in publication, The Good Food Guide is back, as proudly independent as ever. Our long-standing team of inspectors are once again criss-crossing the country, reviewing restaurants as before: eating as any other paying customer and paying their own bills – they do not announce themselves. The Good Food Guide will never change in that respect.
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Recent times have seen London’s love affair with pizza blossom into a passion worthy of a Puccini aria, with openings aplenty across the capital
As we start to research the next edition of The Good Food Guide, an inspector looks back on dining out in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, and North Yorkshire. 'During the past nearly two years, lockdowns permitting, I’ve continued scouting around for interesting new or little-known restaurants and visiting those already listed ......
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