Product Description

The Good Food Guide is Britain's leading restaurant review.

It is thoroughly independent and universally respected. Inside, you'll find
detailed descriptions of over 1,200 establishments, representing truly
diverse eating experiences, from gastropubs through to high-end dining.

This year's Good Food Guide will be full-colour, featuring county
navigation and including informal reader recommendations to enhance the
content. The book
will be interspersed with a variety of features from chefs, producers and
experts to capture the imagination of the curious foodie. Each review
provides up-to-the-minute information on new openings, prices, chefs, menus

and wine lists.

Now in its 56th year, the Good Food Guide is completely rewritten every
year. We accept no advertising, sponsorship or fees for inclusion, and all
of our inspections are entirely anonymous. Whether you're looking for a
business lunch, a birthday dinner with friends or a once-in-a-lifetime
blow-out meal, The Good Food Guide is bound to feature the perfect venue.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17017 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-18
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

Amazon.co.uk
The Latin phrase `sui generis' means `unique, of its own kind' -- and that's exactly what The Good Food Guide is. This 2008 edition of the guide to the best restaurants in the UK reviewed by Which magazine remains, quite simply, the bible for those seeking independent expert opinion on where to dine. What makes the guide particularly invaluable is the fact that all the inspections of restaurants herein are anonymous, and the reviewers pay for every meal they review. GFG turns its face against advertising, sponsorship or other incentives, and absolutely guarantees the most dispassionate and balanced view of everything from the grandest to the most modest restaurant. And of how many other guides can one say that?

This 50th edition places under its rigorous eye over 1200 restaurants, stretching from intimate Scottish eateries to much-loved haunts on the Cornish coast. It goes without saying that we are provided with all the usual information on what you can expect to pay in most restaurants (particularly valuable when you can pay an arm and a leg in some restaurants these days), but there are also extensive sections on wine lists, menus, chefs and new openings. The latter two categories, of course, mean that the guide has to have a new edition each year, as every opening is accompanied by a closing somewhere else. What comes across most here, though, is the sheer enthusiasm for some of the best restaurants in Britain. Pick it up and you won't put it down in a hurry. --Barry Forshaw

Synopsis
"The Good Food Guide" is a refreshing insight into the UK restaurant scene. All of our inspections are anonymous and we pay for every meal we review. Unlike other guides, we do not accept sponsorship, advertising or freebies. Our readers contribute their feedback throughout the year, so the reviews inside are completely unbiased.This 56th edition reviews over 1,200 establishments, from the Cornish coast to the Scottish Highlands, and includes information on prices, chefs, new openings, wine lists and menus. It also includes features and interviews with top chefs including Heston Blumenthal, Antonio Carluccio, Gary Rhodes, Michael Caines and Tom Aikens.This year's guide includes: a dynamic new layout and 300 new entries; county navigation; simple, easy-to-use symbols; reader recommendations; interviews, articles and features; and, GBP 50 of money-off vouchers.Whether you're looking for a business lunch, dinner with friends or a once-in-a-lifetime blow-out meal, "The Good Food Guide" is bound to have the perfect venue.

Customer Reviews

Great info, lousy layout
Altho this book has a lot of valuable info, and I believe the layout has been improved over previous versions, it still has it's flaws.

For starters there is no index for suburbs / boroughs. There is also no index for cuisine types. So if you are looking for a specific cuisine anywhere in London for instance, you have to page through 130 pages and go through each and every entry. An absolute disaster.

There are about 4 pages of London maps in the book which proved pretty useless as they don't flow into eachother. They are just random segments with no way of telling where they are in London. This is fine for someone that knows London, but not everyone does.

Hopefully these flaws can be ironed out in the next release. But if it's taken them this long to get to this stage, I won't hold my breath.

I'm giving this book a 2 star because even though there is a lot of info, it's an absolute pain to use. And I already found incorrect opening times on our first restaurant.

great improvement
I was given this book having bought the guide in the past. The change from my last one is dramatic. It looks really classy and is so much easier to use. Also there seeem to be loads more cheaper restaurants. I'd like to see an index for cuisine and maybe veggie food as that's how we often decide where to go. Also, maybe more on cheap eats (like a list on the best places by place. But I was really impressed by the changes. I only got the book a fortnight ago and we've already used it four times!

Clean and classy
Like other reviewers, I had not bought the Guide for a few years, relying instead on online reviews and sites like Top Table. However, after a few terrible experiences at highly-rated restaurants, I came back to the Good Food Guide as a source of independent info. I think the new look is very classy and even had an interview with the gorgeous Tom Aitkens - lucky whover got ot meet him! Seriously though, i think the smaller format works and it's actually something to read now, instead of just a directory. Highly recommended and pretty good value if you but from Amazon.