The Waitrose Good Food Guide has just revealed the top 50 restaurants across the nation. We count down the 25 restaurants top reviewers consider to be the very best places to dine at in the UK.

Brand new to the top 50, Mayfair’s Greenhouse serves traditional French cuisine in a more unusual way. True to its name, you’re greeted by trees as soon as you step into the entrance while twigs line the restaurant walls. But the menu is just as natural too. Arnaud Bignon cooks up classic French cuisine with a colourful twist – expect plenty of edible flowers.

This chic and wooded restaurant is true to its bohemian name and somehow manages to combine fine dining with a homely yet unconventional setting. Located in Jersey, you’ll find chef Paul Rankin plating up Jersey asparagus, Royal Bay oysters and local crab.

Chef Tom Kitchin is seen as one of the best chefs in Scotland, and Michelin-starred restaurant The Kitchin is his flagship venue. Tom follows a nature-to-plate philosophy due to his passion for the finest Scottish seasonal produce he can find. There are a number of different menus on offer, including a surprise tasting menu (and a vegetarian one too), or a classic a la carte.

Also new to the top 50 is Tom Kitchin’s second restaurant, Castle Terrace, where the head chef is his buddy Dominic Jack. The restaurant very much follows the same nature to plate philosophy as The Kitchin and prides itself on being fairly gastronomically experimental. You can enjoy the surprise tasting menu for £75 per person, which showcases some of the best dishes, or dine a la carte and gorge on some spelt, roe deer, monkfish or paella (three courses are £65).

In the heart of the Cotswolds, Whatley Manor is more quintessentially British than you could imagine with its Cotswold stone, ivy draping and a long, perfectly-mowed garden. But inside, the Michelin two-starred restaurant sees chef Martin Burge cook up a selection of worldwide dishes from foie gras to Moroccan lamb. Expect to pay around £116 for a journey through the tasting menu.

The Peat Inn won Scotland’s first ever Michelin star back in the 80s and hasn’t been disappointing since. For £75-110 for lunch, or a dinner for two for £140, one of Scotland’s finest restaurants dishes up slow-braised meats and rich sauces.

Roast game consommé, seared Orkney scallops and English rose veal are among some of the dishes you’ll find on Andre Garret’s Michelin-starred menu. Since Garret left London and headed to Berkshire he’s been serving up a number of classic dishes with a modern flare.

Made famous by chef Simon Rogan (you’ll see this name pop up a lot in this list), The French was rewarded with its first Michelin star in 1974 and has since been re-established with Rogan’s signature take on classic French dishes. You can have a taste of six different dishes on the sample menu for £65 or 10 for £85.

Located in the Berkeley hotel in central London, Marcus Wareing’s two Michelin-starred restaurant offers an a la carte menu at £85 for three courses, or four for £105. You’ll find the likes of veal sweetbread on the menu with wild mushrooms aplenty and some seasonal seafood appearances such as Portland crab and Anjou pigeon.

Opened in 1967 by Albert and Michael Roux, Le Gavroche was the first restaurant in the UK to be awarded three Michelin stars. The main reason for its popularity is its signature menu consisting of classic dishes with an experimental twist. We’re not talking puréed potatoes and decomposed cheesecakes, but fat seared langoustines, lobster mousse and vermouth velouté. Although it’s £40 for a main course, critics say it’s well worth it.

If you thought that was expensive, expect to pay almost £300 for two including drinks at Fera. And that’s if you can get a table at chef Simon Rogan’s restaurant. The restaurant plays on informality with clothless tables and menu items such as flamed mackerel, steamed hake and caramelised pork belly, but it’s still very much a classy affair. After all, you are dining in Claridge’s.

Alain Ducasse is the only chef in the world to have run three Michelin three-starred restaurants at the same time; the equivalent of a Usain Bolt ‘triple triple’ in the culinary world. So while you will have to pay around £100 for dinner here, it’s going to be well worth it.

Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage, however, will only set you back about £60 per person and looks a bit understated from the outside. Inside it’s an entirely different story. Using classic French cooking techniques, chef David Everitt-Matthias serves up dishes ranging from butter poached lobster and Cotswold venison to a terrine of Cornish ray and beef tartare with pickled shimeji mushrooms.

Ranked as the best eatery in the East of England, Midsummer House has two Michelin stars and is led by chef Daniel Clifford. Expect something a little different here, as Clifford specialises in cooking with fresh, local produce and teasing diners with a five or eight course menu (priced at anywhere between £47.50 and £105 per person).

Situated in Notting Hill in London, the Ledbury is run by chef Brett Graham, famous for his innovative cooking paired with fine wines. On the menu, you’ll find the likes of cuttlefish, pigeon and iberico pork, all served with a twist. Each dish is accompanied by a recommended wine choice to help make your decision a little easier (and tastier).

So popular that it is booked up three months in advance, Fraiche is kept small so the quality can remain high. Chef Marc Wilkinson worked at a number of Michelin-starred restaurants before heading to Merseyside – a location people claimed was a “culinary desert” – where the restaurant has been in high demand ever since. Wilkinson serves up four courses for £45 per person, including tasters of monkfish cheeks, BBQ leeks, almond gazpacho and a celery and rhubarb éclair.

Another one to receive praise from the Michelin judges. But Andrew Fairlie’s restaurant isn’t just a two Michelin-starred restaurant; the leaders of the free world gorged out here at the G8 summit in 2005 and Fairlie is well known for providing a unique experience for diners.

Hedone in West London has been acclaimed as the 60th best restaurant in the world. It’s a modern European restaurant and, although it serves high-quality Michelin-starred food, it’s set in a laidback, cave-like space. The menu is filled with anything from poached oysters to lamb, best served taster-style to allow you to try a number of different dishes.

The first restaurant to be wholly owned by Gordon Ramsay, this restaurant was opened in 1998 when the chef was just 31. But by 2001 it had already gained three Michelin stars, with Clare Smyth MBE appointed as chef patron. The menu boasts French cuisine from foie gras to cœur de bœuf tomato tartare.

It’s Heston Blumenthal’s world-famous restaurant – need we say anymore? You’ll probably already have guessed what kind of experience you’ll be getting here. Although on the pricey side, anywhere from £255 per head, Blumenthal promises to take you on a journey centred around a “nostalgic trip full of playful memories”. The menu is a surprise, so you won’t know what you’re getting until you’re there, but as Blumenthal is the king of theatrical cooking you’re not likely to be disappointed.

Specialising in small plates, Hibiscus is the flagship restaurant of chef Claude Bosi. There’s no à la carte here (although lots of oh là là), but instead a selection of tasting dishes, including the likes of scallops sharpened with pink grapefruit gel and confit orange and black truffle purée.

First opened in April 2011, Pollen Street Social is run and co-owned by executive chef Jason Atherton, who started out working alongside some of the culinary greats such as Marco Pierre White and Pierre Koffmann. The restaurant was awarded a Michelin star within six months of opening and serves up British-grown seasonal produce such as Colchester crab and Gairloch langoustine.

Named after its chef-patron this Nottingham restaurant has moved slightly further up the list after being placed in eighth position last year. Sat Bains specialises in tasting menus that can cost anywhere up to £95, serving dishes such as crab satay with Kohlrabi tagliatelle and wild hare.

Chef Nathan Outlaw is the owner of three different restaurants under his name – one in Port Isaac, one in London and one in Cornwall, all of which are famous for their vast seafood menus. The dishes don’t come cheap at £119 per person for a tasting menu, but reviews suggest it’s well worth it.

Hitting the top spot, this Cumbrian restaurant was awarded a ‘perfect 10’ in 2014 for its cooking, and continues to serve award-winning food. The restaurant’s chef-patron Simon Rogan (who we may have mentioned already) trained under Marco-Pierre White and now serves a menu of locally-sourced seasonal food such as smoked eel, brill and oxtail dumplings.