The Good Food Guide has revealed its list of the best restaurants in the UK for 2020, and the north west has triumphed.
The guide, which is produced by Waitrose & Partners, has placed two Greater Manchester restaurants in the top 50.
Adam Reid at The French, the fine-dining restaurant within the Midland Hotel, is in 11th place, up two positions from last year's guide.
In a tweet posted this morning, the restaurant said it was 'thrilled' with its ranking and described the result as 'a fantastic achievement'.
Stockport's Where The Light Gets in has made its first appearance in the top 50 this year, placing in 44th position.
Located in an old coffee warehouse in Stockport Old Town, the restaurant is renowned for its daily-changing menus that are created based on the best produce available that day.
A total of 38 restaurants in Greater Manchester were recognised for their excellence.
Mana in Ancoats - a name on everyone's lips with the upcoming Michelin star announcements - made the guide, as did Pep Guardiola and Paco Perez's Catalan restaurant Tast, on King Street .
On a much more modest scale, tiny Alpine restaurant The Sparrows, which the M.E.N. adored in a recent review , got a nod, as did equally humble Chaat Cart .
Former MasterChef champion Simon Wood's restaurant Wood, three-site tapas restaurant Porta, Bombay-via-London curry house Dishoom, and vegan fine dining spot The Allotment also made the guide.
It goes on, with Mi & Pho, The Pasta Factory, Hispi, Kala, Baratxuri, Sugo Pasta Kitchen, Refuge by Volta, Umezushi, 20 Stories, Hawksmoor, Lily's, The Creameries, Indique, Volta, Nutters, The White Hart, TNQ, Lunya, Levanter, Yuzu, Indian Tiffin Room, Indique, El Gato Negro, One Eighty Eight, The Lime Tree and Albert Square Chop House making the grade.
A north west restaurant managed to nab the top spot in the Good Food Guide 2020, with L'Enclume in Cumbria is back in prime position for the first time since 2017.
Moor Hall in Lancashire, recently voted best in the UK in the National Restaurant Awards, placed in fifth.
The full top 50 is below
1. L’Enclume, Cumbria (10)
2. Core by Clare Smyth, London (10)
3. Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall (10)
4. Ynyshir, Powys (9)
5. Moor Hall, Lancashire (9)
6. Claude Bosi at Bibendum, London (9)
7. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London (9)
8. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham (9)
9. Casamia, Bristol (9)
10. Pollen Street Social, London (9)
11. Adam Reid at The French, Manchester (8)
12. Restaurant Story, London (8)
13. The Raby Hunt, County Durham (8)
14. Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Tayside (8)
15. The Greenhouse, London (8)
16. The Ledbury, London (8)
17. Marcus, London (8)
18. The Fat Duck, Berkshire (8)
19. Roganic, London (8)
20. Fraiche, Merseyside (8)
21. Bohemia, Jersey (8)
22. Midsummer House, Cambridgeshire (8)
23. The Peat Inn, Fife (8)
24. Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucestershire (8)
25. The Kitchin, Edinburgh (7)
26. Lake Road Kitchen, Cumbria (7)
27. Forest Side, Cumbria (7)
28. Orwells, Oxfordshire (7)
29. A. Wong, London (7)
30. Whatley Manor, The Dining Room, Wiltshire (7)
31. Trinity, London (7) New
32. Matt Worswick at the Latymer, Surrey (7)
33. Inver, Argyll & Bute (7) New
34. The Black Swan, Yorkshire (7) New
35. Restaurant James Sommerin, Glamorgan (7)
36. Winteringham Fields, Lincolnshire (7) New
37. The Sportsman, Kent (7)
38. The Whitebrook, Monmouthshire (7)
39. The Man Behind The Curtain, Leeds (7) New
40. Paul Ainsworth, Cornwall (7) New
41. Alchemilla, Nottingham (7) New
42. Wilks, Bristol (7) New
43. Cail Bruich, Glasgow (7) New
44. Where The Light Gets In, Greater Manchester (7) New
45. Sosban & The Old Butcher’s, Anglesey (7) New
46. Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh (7)
47 Le Gavroche, London (7)
48. Artichoke, Buckinghamshire (7)
49. Adam’s, Birmingham (7)
50. Castle Terrace, Edinburgh (7)
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