The Good Food Guide  Reviews 52

I joined and paid the subscription but the app says I've run out of free articles. I've tried the log in link, but it doesn't go to a log in!

Always had the book but this is better and more up to date.
Very good reviews and I swear by them!

I used to use the Book/paper version, however the app has really made the most of technology and offers great, regular updates and news on the UK restaurant scene. When dining out is getting more expensive, making a good restaurant choice becomes critical.

Bought a subscription but could not log on. After a month I am still not able to log on. Sending emails is like communicating with the dead. Useless!

I have always brought the good food guide as a trusted source of good places to eat. And was disappointed when the paper version stopped but totally understood why. But I have to say the app is fabulous! And with weekly updates by emails as well. I highly recommend. Well worth the cost!

Historically a good print guide, though now they have broadened the places included...like local gems
Very worthwhile subscription

Since I got this app, I haven't had a bad meal out! It's fantastic when I'm traveling about the country or exploring a new parts of London.

Great user friendly app with fantastic discounts at restaurants. Gods to see all the new places to visit and east to recommend places to with various surveys

Rude & SCAMMY. I’m happy for the TEAM to email me if they want to solicit their product. But, not try to manipulate by calling me to go onto the website to check if my free detail on their website is correct and trying to get me to pay for the service. $50 a week to get more traffic. They should be paying me for having my detail on their website?. It’s free from my end. RUDE TEAM THAT IS LOOKING FOR REVENUE RAISING And don’t care about the small businesses and only care about how much money they can raise. I have asked them to take my detail down from their website, And being told it’s a public so they can use it as they like.
IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO PAY AND YOU WANT TO RAISE MORE MONEY, DO IT RIGHT WAY BE POLITE ABOUT IT ASK SMALL BUSINESS. It’s a hard time for all small business at the moment.

I valued the idea of the Good Food Guide as a popular concern with the quality of public food. In large part this is necessarily done through introductions of worthwhile places to eat out in a locality. It should also though concern itself with a critical discussion with a broader range of types of food provision - hospital food for example, cafes and lunch bars, even school food. Huge food corporations have come to dominate the general experience of eating outside the home. What they do and how they do it does need to be discussed and evaluated and in particular brave attempts to vary the corporate experience by individual experience needs to be recognised and where appropriate praised. The current iteration of the GFG is more inclusive than its predecessors and is to be welcomed but could go considerably further.

As a long term reader of, and contributor to, the previous Good Food Guide, I am largely disappointed with the new version. I can (just about) tolerate the absence of the printed version as I found it easy to peruse annotate. My major gripe is with the reduced content - there are far fewer restaurants included, especially outside London. Many of the omissions (in my area, at least) were perfectly acceptable operations, if not neccesarily stellar. They are just as worthy of assessment as their more celebrated neighbours. I am also disappointed that the new Guide has not totally rejected the use of counties as a primary grouping - nowadays search areas can cover multiple counties within a relatively short distance. For example, living in north Hampshire my search area also covers parts of Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire - and on occasions Central/South West London and Dorset. In fact, given the reduced number of entires nowadays for Hampshire, most of my searches are outside the county. My preference would be for primary searches to be based on a specified distance from the home location, rather than by county.

It is really great to see The Good Food Guide continue, a great source to find great local food.

The useful map helps enormously to find local restaurants and pubs or for planning foodie trips or stays.

Have been using the Good Food Guide as my go-to since the 1980s. Always loved its reviews though previously I thought that just like the Michelin there was only limited understanding of Asian food. That has now considerably improved. I was worried it had disappeared during the pandemic and I welcome its resurrection after the bad Waitrose-owned experience as an app with a considerably expanded list of dining options

Love the Good Food Guide. For me the number one reference when it comes to dining out while visiting the UK.
Nevertheless so sad that they stoped their printed guide a couple of years ago. It was always so enjoyable to have this book at hand either in front of our own fireplace or en route.
Four stars only as the TGFG app doesn't work on my Android phone.

Excellent reviews and very comprehensive

My wife and I have relied on the GFG for 40 years. Miss the book, but the online incarnation is much more up to date and informative. Use it regularly and cannot remember a poor meal as a result. And the team is doing new things! Yesterday went to a specially arranged lunch open to all subscribers presented by Brad Carter and his team at their summer location of Evesham (usually Brum - look up Carters). Well worth the journey (to borrow a phrase). Lovely food, unique location in a key supplier's greenhouse and friendly co-diners. Keep up the good work!

Informative, impartial reviews!

Chaotic guide- difficult to find a place without several attempts - including a county only confuses

Has never let me down. Reviews are as accurate and reliable as they've ever been and the digital format is useful for checking on the go.

the GFG in its new format continues the tradition of providing impartial, helpful reviews which is great. however there need to be more entries, some further improvements to the app/website functionality and it would benefit from a slightly more granular scoring system. there is also a great opportunity for the guide and the restaurants to offer member benefits.