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HESTON Blumenthal's Fat Duck is still the UK's best restaurant, according to The Good Food Guide 2012.
Fraiche creations at no 24The three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray retained its perfect score of 10 out of 10, while L'Enclume in Cartmel, South Lakes, which was memorabley visited by Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip, comes in second place.
Closer to home. Marc Wilkinson's Fraiche in Oxton, reviewed here, managed to make it into the top half of the list, while Simon Radley at the Chester Grovsenor occupied the no 43 position.
Here's the full list:
1 The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire (score 10; last year's ranking 1)
2 L'Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria (score 9; last year's ranking 4)
3 Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham (score 9; last year's ranking 6)
4 Gordon Ramsay, Royal Hospital Road, London (score 9; last year 2)
5 Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Rock, Cornwall (score 8, last year's ranking 5)
6 Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Oxfordshire (score 8; last year's ranking 3)
7 Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, London (score 8; last year's ranking 7)
8 Pollen Street Social, London (score 8; new entry)
9 Hibiscus, London (score 8; last year's ranking 11)
10 The Square, London (score 8; last year's ranking 10)
11 Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucestershire (8)
12 Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House, Buckinghamshire (8)
13 Whately Manor, The Dining Room, Wiltshire (8)
14 Le Gavroche, London (8)
15 Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London (8)
16 Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh (8)
17 The Ledbury, London (8)
18 The Waterside Inn, Berkshire (7)
19 Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London (7)
20 Robert Thompson at the Hambrough, Isle of Wight (7)
21 Midsummer House, Cambridgeshire (7)
22 Murano, London (7)
23 John Campbell at Cowarth Park, Berkshire (7)
24 Fraiche, Merseyside (7)
25 Gidleigh Park, Devon (7)
26 Bohemia, Jersey (7)
27 Fischer’s Baslow Hall, Derbyshire (7)
28 The Crown at Whitebrook, Gwent (7)
29 The Pass, West Sussex (7)
30 Michael Wignall, the Latymer at Pennyhill Park Hotel, Surrey (7)
31 Hambleton Hall, Rutland (7)
32 The Old Vicarage, Derbyshire (7)
33 Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Tayside (7)
34 Harry’s Place, Lincolnshire (7)
35 The Kitchin, Edinburgh (6)
36 Tyddyn Llan, Denbighshire (6)
37 Artichoke, Buckinghamshire (6)
38 Purnell’s, West Midlands (6)
39 Mr Underhill’s, Shropshire (6)
40 The Hand & Flowers, Buckinghamshire (6)
41 Anthony’s Restaurant, West Yorkshire (6)
42 The Greenhouse, London (6)
43 Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire (6)
44 The Sportsman, Kent (6)
45 The Creel, Orkney (6)
46 Ramsons, Greater Manchester (6)
47 The Yorke Arms, Ramsgill, North Yorkshire (6)
48 Club Gascon, London (6)
49 Royal Oak, Paley Street, Berkshire (6)
50 Galvin La Chapelle, London (6)
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Some shining stars there but the Ledbury should have been higher if only for routing the mob with their precious kitchen tools which I sincerely hope were'nt damaged on the sculls of the robbers and thieves!