SquareMeal Top 100 Restaurants in the UK for 2025

Square meal top 100 restaurants

The SquareMeal Top 100 Restaurants in the UK for 2025

The UK’s leading independent restaurant guide – SquareMeal – has announced the best restaurants that the UK has to offer.

SquareMeal’s UK Top 100 is the only list of its kind to exclude London’s restaurants – allowing the wider UK’s dining scene
to truly shine.

Square meal top 100 restaurants
Using a combination of thousands of reader votes and SquareMeal’s own expert critics, the UK Top 100 Restaurants list is a true reflection of Britain’s beautifully varied dining scene.

Birmingham leads the way with five restaurants in the list, including two in the top 10 in 2022 champion Grace & Savour, and two Michelin-starred Opheem.

This year’s highest new entry in the UK Top 100 is Tom Barnes’ magnificent Manchester restaurant Skof, which heads up a big year for Manchester, with Higher Ground, Another Hand, and The Sparrows all representing the city in the list.

As ever, Scotland has also established itself as a world-class food destination, and three new Edinburgh entries all break into the upper echelons of the UK Top 100 list this year – Stuart Ralston’s superb new restaurant Lyla at number 11, and Montrose and Fhior at 33 and 34 respectively – joining another seven Scottish restaurants in the list.

Other powerhouse culinary counties like North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Berkshire are also well represented, but fifteen counties are represented across the whole list, showing that there are great restaurants spread all over the UK.

In the UK, the number one spot for 2025 goes to Restaurant Sat Bains.

Chef Sat Bains tells us:

“We are honoured to place top in this brilliant list of restaurants. We strive for both consistency and relevance, continuously innovating what we do and how we do it to be the best we can, spotlighting some of the country’s best produce in all its glory. After 25 years of dedication to our concept and little pocket of Nottingham we are of course humbled to place No1 in the UK.”

Full list can be viewed here UK Top 100 restaurants 2025

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