The Good Food Guide has listed some of the city's restaurants in its top 50
Sarah Probert Executive Editor
01:00, 25 Aug 2016Updated 13:12, 25 Aug 2016
The Good Food Guide 2017 is published today and has revealed what it thinks are the top 50 best restaurants in the UK.
The guide - highly regarded by chefs and restaurant-goers alike - recognises the very best talent in the country.
But which Birmingham restaurants get a mention this year?
Well you will have to travel a fair distance to get to the top restaurant listed in the guide - L’Enclume in Cumbria - which has been crowned number one restaurant for the fourth year running.
There are no Birmingham restaurants in the top 10 - which includes Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in Berkshire and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London.
The first Midland restaurant in the list is Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottinghamshire which comes third, followed by Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucestershire which is ranked number 13.
Birmingham’s Michelin starred Simpsons restaurant is new to the top 50 - ranking 35th on the list.
Michelin starred Adam’s in Waterloo Street is the only other Birmingham restaurant to get a mention and is ranked 41 on the list.
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Our other Michelin giants Purnell’s, Turners and Carters of Moseley are not included in the top 50.
Last month The Jockey in Baughton, Worcestershire scooped the Midland’s Good Food Guide Local Restaurant of the Year Award.
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The Good Food Guide will be available to buy at Waitrose from September 5 priced at £12.99 (rrp £17.99).
Full top 50 list
1 L’Enclume, Cumbria
2 Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall
3 Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire
4 Pollen Street Social, London
5 Hibiscus, London
6 The Fat Duck, Berkshire
7 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London
8 Hedone, London
9 Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Tayside
10 Fraiche, Merseyside
11 The Ledbury, London
12 Midsummer House, Cambridgeshire
13 Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucestershire
14 Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London
15 Fera at Claridges, London
16 Le Gavroche, London
17 Marcus, London
18 The French, Manchester
19 André Garrett at Cliveden, Berkshire
20 The Peat Inn, Fife
21 Whatley Manor, The Dining Room, Wiltshire
22 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh - New to the Top 50 this year
23 The Kitchin, Edinburgh
24 Bohemia, Jersey
25 The Greenhouse, London - New to the Top 50 this year
26 The Waterside Inn, Berkshire
27 Casamia, Bristol
28 Paul Ainsworth at No. 6, Cornwall
29 Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London
30 Artichoke, Buckinghamshire
31 Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxfordshire
32 Restaurant Story, London
33 Gidleigh Park, Devon
34 Restaurant James Sommerin, Glamorgan
35 Simpsons, Birmingham - New to the Top 50 this year
36 Sketch, London
37 Forest Side, Cumbria - New to the Top 50 this year
38 Murano, London
39 Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
40 Ynyshir, Powys
41 Adam’s, Birmingham
42 The Raby Hunt, Durham
43 Freemasons at Wiswell, Lancashire
44 Orwells, Oxfordshire - New to the Top 50 this year
45 Restaurant Marianne, London - New to the Top 50 this year
46 Hambleton Hall, Rutland
47 The Whitebrook, Gwent - New to the Top 50 this year
48 Llangoed Hall, Powys
49 Lake Road Kitchen, Cumbria
50 The Dairy, London