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Lynette Pinchess

AA Restaurant Guide 2023: All 13 Nottinghamshire restaurants featured this year

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Food lovers are spoilt for choice in Nottinghamshire from one of the world's best Michelin-starred restaurants to popular gastro pubs. The finest have been named as the county's best in the AA Restaurant Guide 2023.

It's a lucky 13, with more than ever featured in what is hailed the perfect guide to the UK’s top dining destinations, highlighting over 1,400 restaurants across the country. Newcomers include the Old Vol, in Caythorpe, Taylor's Fine Dining in Newark and the Red Lion at Thurgarton.

The have been awarded rosettes for culinary excellence by the AA’s professional inspectors. Now in its 29th edition, the guide provides foodies with breakdowns of restaurants by county, including a detailed description of each destination, information on latest chef changes, opening times, sample menu prices and images of many of the featured locations.

Simon Numphud, managing director of AA Media, said: “We are delighted to publish the leading guide to the UK’s top dining destinations, with 150 new establishments added to The Restaurant Guide 2023. From Northern Stars to the Heart of England, Scotland to the capital, the restaurants in this year’s guide demonstrate the high quality of culinary experiences across the country, offering delicious food and service of the highest standard.”

Restaurants are awarded between one and five rosettes. One rosette denotes restaurants achieving standards that stand out in their local area, featuring food prepared with care, understanding and skill, and good quality ingredients. The AA says the same expectations apply to hotel restaurants where guests should be able to eat-in with confidence and a sense of anticipation.

Two rosettes are given to the best local restaurants, which aim for and achieve higher standards, better consistency, greater precision apparent in the cooking and obvious attention to the selection of quality ingredients.

Restaurant Sat Bains is the only Nottinghamshire restaurant to have five rosettes (Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)

According to the AA, places with three rosettes are outstanding restaurants that achieve standards that demand national recognition well beyond their local area. The cooking will be underpinned by the selection and sympathetic treatment of the highest quality ingredients; and timing, seasoning and the judgement of flavour combinations will be consistently excellent. These virtues will tend to be supported by other elements such as intuitive service and a well-chosen wine list.

Places with four rosettes are among the top restaurants in the UK where the cooking demands national recognition. These restaurants will exhibit intense ambition, a passion for excellence, superb technical skills, remarkable consistency and an appreciation of culinary traditions combined with a passionate desire for further exploration and improvement.

Restaurants with five rosettes are described as the pinnacle, where the cooking compares with the best in the world. The AA says these restaurants will have highly individual voices, exhibit breath-taking culinary skills and set the standards to which others aspire, yet few achieve.

Here are the Nottinghamshire restaurants included in the 2023 Guide:

Five rosettes