The Good Food Guide launches search for Britain’s 100 Best Pubs

The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Pubs 2025, in partnership with Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, is arriving this autumn, and the Guide is calling on you to help uncover the very best dining pubs across the country. After the success of Britain’s Best Sunday Roasts in 2024, the spotlight will be turned on the country’s 100 Best Pubs, once again supported by Tracklements artisan condiments and Koffmann’s Potatoes.  

While pub closures continue to hit the headlines – shutting at a rate of one a day in 2025, according to the British Beer and Pub Association – there’s a groundswell of optimism where top-tier dining pubs are concerned. As appetites turn to more approachable and informal ways to eat out, some of Britain’s best chefs, from Tommy Banks to Sally Abé, are turning their talents to reviving the spirit of community-driven pubs through thoughtful, seasonally led cooking.

Use of the term ‘gastropub’ was banned by The Good Food Guide in 2011, having been widely co-opted by operators serving sub-standard pub fare. In the decade or so since, the search has been on to find an adequate replacement to describe proper pubs with great cooking. Diners are encouraged to send in their suggestions to editors@thegoodfoodguide.co.uk by Tuesday 9th September. 

Nominations are now also open here for readers to share their favourite pubs with food, and will close on Tuesday 9th September. The pub with the most nominations that makes the list will be handed the Readers’ Choice Award when Britain’s 100 Best Pubs is revealed on 29^th October. 

To qualify for the 100 Best Pubs, The Good Food Guide is looking for the places where brilliant cooking is paired with the spirit of a proper pub. Drinkers should be able to relax over a good selection of real ales or pick over a menu of top-notch bar snacks, while diners can drop in for a one-dish dinner or celebrate with great wines and a seasonal menu featuring quality local produce. There might be crisps behind the bar and crowd-pleasing cheeseburgers, but there will be originality and interest. A healthy dose of community spirit is at the heart of it all.

Editor of The Good Food Guide, Chloë Hamilton, said: ‘What is more appealing than eating well in the laid-back, convivial atmosphere of a British pub? While the national narrative is down on pubs, we’re seeing that in 2025 they’re home to some of the best cooking in the country. We’re here to celebrate that’.

Adam Hyman, publisher of The Good Food Guide added: ‘2025 has been another very tough year for hospitality. Similar to our 100 Best Local Restaurants, we want to fly the flag for the best pubs with food, as well as capture the zeitgeist of how people are choosing to dine out around Britain’. 

Jane Jenkins, marketing director at Timothy Taylor’s said: ‘We are delighted to be partnering with The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Pubs campaign. We believe celebrating and championing the great British pub is so important as pub culture, and a perfectly conditioned pint of cask ale, holds a special place in people’s lives.’ 

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About The Good Food Guide  

The Good Food Guide is the longest standing restaurant guide in Britain. Founded in 1951, its ethos remains the same today - helping readers to find the very best places to eat around Britain. Owned by Knife & Fork Media, who also run industry platform

CODE Hospitality, The Good Food Guide is now a fully digital publication featuring 1,400 restaurants, pubs, cafes and wine bars across Britain. All reviews are conducted anonymously by a network of inspectors and all meals are paid for in full.

Membership to The Good Food Club is £4.99/month or £49.99/year with full access to our restaurant reviews, more than 200 dining perks and special member events.

About Timothy Taylor’s 

Timothy Taylor’s represents the gold standard of cask beer and is proud to fly the flag for one of the UK’s great products. An independent Yorkshire company with over 170 years of heritage, Timothy Taylor’s is one of the country’s most highly respected breweries and Landlord, the revered flagship brand, is the number one cask ale in the UK.

There is no finer beer to have in a pub than a perfectly conditioned pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord. It’s beautifully balanced, full of flavour, highly drinkable and pairs well with food.

To find your perfect pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord visit www.timothytaylor.co.uk/pint-finder. 

About Tracklements

Based in the heart of Wiltshire, B Corp-certified Tracklements lovingly make an award-winning range of over 50 artisan condiments, from the UK’s first Wholegrain Mustard to award-winning Fresh Chilli Jam. To make sure all of their products taste as good as the best homemade, they make them in the same manner as you would at home; with the highest quality, natural ingredients, handmade in small batches. They know the origins of all of their ingredients and work with British farmers and spice growers from all over the globe. The best Sunday roasts deserve the best condiments from Tracklements.

About Koffmann’s Potatoes

Koffmann’s Potatoes is a family run speciality food business, supplying potato products to the British food service industry and chefs nationwide. Legendary chef Pierre Koffmann is the head of the family. Under his expert direction, the experienced team has developed Koffmann’s potatoes - potatoes for purpose that offer chefs consistently superior taste to enhance any menu. Koffmann’s is proud to be on the menus of some of the finest restaurants, pubs, hotels in the UK and is delighted to support The Good Food Guide's 100 Best Pubs in the quest to crown Britain's best pub food, of which they firmly believe the potato is the star of the show. The Koffmann’s range is also now available through Ocado bringing restaurant quality products to homes nationwide.

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