The National Restaurant Awards 2022

The National Restaurant Awards is the definitive guide to the UK’s best restaurants. Here we explore the 2022 winners by celebrating all of Dish Cult’s high achievers.

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We start by celebrating two Dish Cult winners. The Best Restaurant in Scotland went to Inver – an emphatic celebration of Scotland’s larder that displays great reverence to the provenance and quality of its local ingredients. Chef Pamela Brunton took over the running of the Inver with her husband Rob in the spring of 2015, and with their friends and family have built the sort of place they like to spend time. The cosy lounge-bar provides the setting for a pre-dinner craft ale or glass of natural wine and gives way to a vintage-style dining room that overlooks the Loch.

The à la carte lunch and dinner menus feature fresh, simply prepared seafood, as well as native meat and game in season. A four-course tasting menu is also served in the evenings, which uses current cooking techniques and a combination of local, wild and farmed ingredients to offer a contemporary take on traditional and forgotten Scottish dishes.

The Best Restaurant in Northern Ireland was awarded to Ox in Belfast. The duo behind Ox met in France while working at the country’s top restaurants. What Alain Kerloc’h and Stephen Toman have created in Northern Ireland’s capital since is a riverside restaurant that provides its guests with a finely tuned and memorable experience.

Dishes on Toman’s surprisingly affordable tasting menu emphasise Ireland’s bounty of good quality produce, with local meats and cheeses in attendance. There’s also an Irish drinks menu of gins, beers and ciders, whiskey (of course) and even vodka for people really wishing to keep things close to home.

The Top 100 restaurants for 2022 also boasted some Dish Cult venues. Ondine in Edinburgh came in at 84. Ondine was opened by Roy Brett in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town in 2009, and has become something of an institution in the Scottish capital.

Jöro in Sheffield came in at 77. Chef-patron Luke French describes Jöro as an urban restaurant influenced by nature, one that mixes true innovation with the finest available ingredients.

Covent Garden’s Frenchie is at number 62 on the list. This is a French brasserie with bags of je ne sais quoi and a killer wine list run by Parisian chef Greg Marchand.

At number 63 is Hélène Darroze at the Connaught. The French chef Darroze puts an unconventional spin on fine dining at the luxury Mayfair hotel.

Into the top 50 and the award-winning Inver was placed at 23, while L’Enclume in Cumbria made it into the top 10.

Coming third though in the entire country was Dish Cult’s very own, Brat in Shoereditch, London. Welsh chef Tomos Parry’s turbot-charged restaurant is a celebration of traditional cooking methods that let the ingredients do the talkin

Congratulations to all of those celebrating their wins and achievements at the National Restaurant Awards, particularly our Dish Cult venues.

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