An influential UK-wide dining guide is seeking to crown the best-hidden gem restaurants from around the country and is asking locals to vote for their favourites.
In a bid to find the very best local hospitality in all corners of the UK, the Good Food Guide is searching for the best independently run restaurants that are rooted in their community.
Readers are able to nominate their favourites by heading to The Good Food Guide website here and each nomination made will be entered into a prize draw to win a £250 restaurant voucher.
Furthermore, the best nomination submission will be handed the chance to take up the coveted position of Guest Inspector for The Good Food Guide.
And in Glasgow, there are four restaurants who have shot out ahead in the nominations (there have been 11,000 so far in total) and stand a really good chance of ranking in the top 20 or even winning the title.
According to the GFG team, hugely popular Italian restaurant Celentano's in Townhead, seafood specialists Shucks on Hyndland Road, comfort food aficionados The Loveable Rogue West End on Great Western Road and much-loved wine bar Bar Brett are all way out in front in the voting for Glasgow.
They join the Palmerston in Edinburgh as the restaurants that are flying in the votes for Scotland.
“The simple formula of a kitchen that cooks fresh to order is the very principle on which The Good Food Guide was founded,” says Elizabeth Carter, editor of the Guide.
“We have always maintained that the best restaurants offer creative, memorable food based on quality, seasonal and local produce. In other words, no pretensions or gimmicks, just first-class food cooked from ingredients deeply rooted in the region. A commitment to their community and a strong relationship with local suppliers is what makes a restaurant truly local.”
“Our readers are our most valued source for discovering brilliant restaurants and have been since the Guide was founded back in 1951,” adds Chloë Hamilton, managing editor of The Good Food Guide.
“Despite tough conditions, the calibre of local restaurants in 2023 is higher than it has ever been, so we look forward to seeing what gems readers send our way.”
Once nominations close, The Good Food Guide’s editors will reveal a shortlist of contenders across Scotland, and the rest of the UK, with anonymous inspections of the frontrunners to follow, before regional winners and the overall Best Local Restaurant of 2023 is announced at the end of June.
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