The Whitebrook – up 11 places to 38 in Good Food Guide UK Top 50 & Square Meal Top 100

The Whitebrook Restaurant with Rooms goes up 11 places to number 38 in The Good Food Guide UK 2020 by Waitrose & Partners and is included in the Square Meal Top 100 outside London

Plus Chris Harrod is shortlisted for a Hotel Catey in the Hotel Restaurant Chef of the Year category

The Good Food Guide by Waitrose & Partners is a highly respected ‘bible’ for foodies, published annually since 1952, covering the best places to eat out throughout the UK.

Voted for by thousands of readers and bloggers Square Meal is the only poll to exclude London restaurants allowing regional establishments to take the limelight.

Hotel Cateys celebrate the best hotels, hoteliers and hotel chefs in the UK as selected by 70 judges chosen for the wealth of industry experience.

Rising 11 places in this year’s Good Food Guide by Waitrose & Partners UK Top 50, The Whitebrook Restaurant with Rooms near Monmouth is owned by chef Chris Harrod a 2018 winner of BBC2’s Great British Menu.

Nestled in the Wye Valley against a backdrop of the beautiful Forest of Dean, this secluded restaurant with rooms won a Michelin star within months of opening and is recognised as one of the Waitrose Good Food Guide’s UK top 50 restaurants at number 38 and with a score of 7 denoting a ‘High level of ambition. Attention to the smallest detail. Accurate and vibrant dishes.

In the same week, Chris has been shortlisted in the prestigious Hotel Catey Awards in a newly created category: Hotel Restaurant Chef of the Year and The Whitebrook is among 100 of Square Meal’s best restaurants in the UK outside London.

A protege of Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons chef, Raymond Blanc, Chris, who runs his restaurant with his wife, Kirsty, has a big focus on local produce, foraged ingredients and organic wines.  With dinner, bed and breakfast rates priced from £279, The Whitebrook represents excellent value.

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