The British restaurant that has been named the second-best place to eat in the world

The prestigious restaurant ranking La Liste has just announced its top 1,000 restaurants in the world for 2026.

This year a whopping 83 British restaurants made it into the global list, which is not too shabby. But even better is that one English resto was named the second-best in the whole world.

Launched in 2015, La Liste compiles thousands of publications, guidebooks and reviews, and combines them with the views of thousands of chefs. The ranking then picks out the world’s 1,000 best restaurants, giving them a score between zero and 100. The winners were announced at a glitzy awards ceremony in Paris on November 24.

L’Enclume, a three Michelin-starred restaurant in the Lake District, was named number two on the planet by La Liste. The restaurant, founded in 2002 by chef Simon Rogan, scored a massive 99.0 in this year’s awards. The dining experience at L’Enclume (which is French for ‘anvil’, due to the restaurant being found inside a former blacksmiths) is based around a multi-course seasonal tasting menu that draws heavily on ingredients from Rogan’s own 12-acre farm nearby. 

This isn’t the first time L’Enclume has been featured on La Liste. In 2023 it was named the best restaurant in the world, scoring 99.5. This year it was beaten by 10 eateries that took the number one spot, all scoring a whopping 99.5 out of 100. Among the world’s best restaurants were Le Bernardin in New York, Gus Savoy in Paris, and Matsukawa in Tokyo. 

Out of the 83 British restaurants named in La Liste, 28 of them were in London. The highest scoring London restaurants in this year’s ranking were Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill and the Ritz Restaurant in Piccadilly, both earning 98 points and coming in joint fourth place. 

Elsewhere, Moor Hall in Lancashire ranked in seventh place, and the North Wales restaurant Ynyshir, where diners will gorge on 30 courses over up to five hours, came in eighth. 

Every British restaurant named in La Liste 2026

1. L’Enclume, Lake District
2. Core by Clare Smyth, London
3. Ritz Restaurant, London
4. Moor Hall, Lancashire
5. Ynshire, North Wales
6. Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
7. Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, London
8. The Glenturret Lalique, Crieff
9. Sushi Kanesaka, London
10. Gordon Ramsay, London
11. Waterside Inn, Maidenhead
12. Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, London
13. Midsummer House, Cambridge
14. The Fat Duck, Bray
15. Brooklands by Claude Bosi, London
16. Osip, Bruton
17. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham
18. Lympstone Manor, Exmouth
19. The Araki, London
20. The Clove Club, Londo
21. Story, London
22. Woven by Adam Smith, Ascot
23. Row on 5, London
24. The Angel at Hetton, Skipton
25. Edinbane Lodge, Edinbane
26. Hambleton Hall, Oakham
27. Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Auchterarder
28. Annwn, Narberth
29. Northcote, Blackburn
30. Allium – Askham Hall, Penrith
31. Kol, London
32. Mýse, York
33. Outlaw’s New Road, Port Isaac
34. Paul Ainsworth at Number 6, Padstow
35. Morston Hall, Holt
36. Pine, Newcastle upon Tyne
37. Sketch – The Lecture Room & Library, London
38. Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal, London
39. A Wong, London
40. Endo at the Rotunda, London
41. The Black Swan at Oldstead, York
42. Opheem, Birmingham
43. The Dining Room at Whatley Manor, Malmesbury
44. The Sportsman, Whitstable
45. The Forest Side, Ambleside
46. Hide and Fox, Hythe
47. The Latymer, Bagshot
48. Solstice by Kenny Atkinson, Newcastle upon Tyne
49. Da Terra, London
50. House of Tides, Newcastle upon Tyne
51. Interlude, Horsham
52. Kitchen Table, London
53. Muse, London
54. Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall, Ripon
55. The Whitebrook, Monmouth
56. Trivet, London
57. Cornus, London
58. The Old Stamp House, Ambleside
59. Ikoyi, London
60. Sosban and The Old Butchers, Menai Bridge
61. Cedar Tree by Hrishikesh Desai, Brampton
62. Hjem, Hexham
63. The Kitchin, Edinburgh
64. The Ledbury, London
65. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London
66. Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside
67. Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham
68. Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
69. The Cocochine, London
70. Humble Chicken, London
71. OX (NI), Belfast
72. The Peat Inn, Cupar
73. Haar, St Andrews
74. The Hand & Flowers, Marlow
75. Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead
76. Inver, Cairndow
77. Ormer Mayfair, London
78. Forge at Middleton Lodge Estate, Richmond
79. Home by James Sommerin, Penarth
80. SOURCE at Gilpin Hotel, Windermere
81. Cail Bruich, Glasgow
82. Number One at The Balmoral, Edinburgh
83. Gymkhana, London

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