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The Good Food Guide is a guidebook to the best restaurants in the UK. The following is a list of travel guides and web sites with substantial international coverage. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ...


The Good Food Guide was first published in 1951 by Raymond Postgate, an enthusiastic gourmet, who was appalled by the standard of contemporary catering. He recruited an army of volunteers to clandestinely visit and assess restaurants on the basis that, "You can corrupt one man. You can't bribe an army." 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Raymond William Postgate (November 6, 1896 - March 29, 1971) was an English socialist journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet. ... A gourmet is a person with a discriminating palate and who is knowledgeable in fine food and drink. ...


The Good Food Guide currently reports on over 1,200 top establishments and is unique as it is completely rewritten every year and is entirely independent — there is no advertising or sponsorship, no fees are accepted for inclusion, and all of the inspections are anonymous.


Readers are actively encouraged to submit their reviews, via the Good Food Guide website, which are then considered for prospective inclusion in next year's guide. The best contributors are put forward to become future restaurant inspectors for The Good Food Guide.


The 56th edition of the Good Food Guide will be published in September 2008.


External links

  • Order 2008 edition
  • Official website
  • Submit reader feedback
  • Buy the book

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Good Food Guide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (244 words)
Good Food Guide was first published in 1951 by Raymond Postgate, an enthusiastic gourmet, who was appalled by the standard of contemporary catering.
Good Food Guide is completely rewritten every year and is entirely independent; there is no advertising or sponsorship, no fees are accepted for inclusion, and all of the inspections are anonymous.
Good Food Guide is now in its 55th edition, and its mission has remained pretty much the same since 1952: to seek out and review the best restaurants in the UK based on recommendations from thousands of enthusiastic eaters.
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