Two East Midlands restaurants among UK's top 30, diners' poll reveals
Two restaurants in Nottingham, including Sat Bains and Alchemilla, have been ranked among the UK's top 30 by a diners' poll, highlighting the city's culinary excellence.
Opheem in Birmingham city centre has been voted one of the UK’s top 10 best restaurants.
In the East Midlands, two venues in Nottingham have also been included in the top 30: Two Michelin Star restaurant Sat Bains (39) and Alchemilla (28), which also has a Michelin star were both included in the list.
Sat Bains is a modern European venue with rooms serving creative, seasonal, modern British cuisine.
West Midlands is a top performing region with five Top 100 restaurants including a new entry from Upstairs by Tom Shepherd in Lichfield.
In the West Midlands region, five restaurants made it into the elite Top 100 list, with Opheem in Birmingham climbing the ranks into this year’s Top 10 at number 6.
The restaurant is Brum’s most commented-on destination in the annual diners’ poll thanks to Aktar Islam’s cooking “taking Indian cuisine to a new and exalted level” with “totally outstanding flavours and presentation” that have landed it as the nation’s number 6.
Opheem’s Jewellery Quarter comrade The Wilderness has also made a reappearance in the elite list at number 90.
Grace & Savour, Hampton-in-Arden is another returning jewel in the West Midlands’ culinary crown that has jumped up the list from last year’s 100 to this year’s 30, fully justifying the pivot the property made a couple of years ago from a more conventional country-house experience to this very contemporary venture built into the walled garden of the Hampton Manor house.