{"id":289919,"date":"2025-11-29T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289919\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:48:16","slug":"british-restaurant-lenclume-is-the-second-best-place-to-eat-in-the-world-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289919\/","title":{"rendered":"British Restaurant L&#8217;Enclume Is The Second-Best Place To Eat In The World in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prestigious restaurant ranking La Liste has just announced its top 1,000 restaurants in the world for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Enclume, a\u00a0three Michelin-starred restaurant in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/lake-district\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake District<\/a>, was named number two on the planet by La Liste. The restaurant,\u00a0founded in 2002 by chef Simon Rogan, scored a massive 99.0 in this year\u2019s awards.\u00a0The dining experience at L\u2019Enclume (which is French for \u2018anvil\u2019, due to the restaurant being found inside a former blacksmiths)\u00a0is based around a multi-course seasonal tasting menu that draws heavily on ingredients from Rogan\u2019s own 12-acre farm nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"d00f1150-51d9-316c-199d-de62a097ba73\" class=\"photo lazy inline\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"lazy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764431296_470_image.webp.webp\" alt=\"L'Enclume, restaurant in England\" data-caption=\"\" data-credit=\"Photograph: L'Enclume\" data-width-class=\"\" data-image-id=\"106346920\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhotograph: L&#8217;Enclume&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time L\u2019Enclume 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\u00a0whopping 99.5 out of 100. Among the world\u2019s best restaurants were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/this-iconic-nyc-restaurant-was-just-named-the-best-in-the-u-s-by-a-global-restaurant-ranking-112525\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Bernardin in New York<\/a>, Gus Savoy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/paris\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris<\/a>, and\u00a0Matsukawa in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/tokyo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 83 British restaurants named in La Liste, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/28-london-restaurants-have-been-honoured-in-a-prestigious-list-of-the-best-places-to-eat-in-the-world-112525\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28 of them were in London<\/a>. The\u00a0highest\u00a0scoring\u00a0London restaurants in\u00a0this year\u2019s\u00a0ranking\u00a0were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/core-by-clare-smyth-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Core by Clare Smyth<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/notting-hill-restaurants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Notting Hill<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/restaurants\/the-ritz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ritz Restaurant<\/a>\u00a0in Piccadilly, both earning 98 points and coming in joint fourth place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere,\u00a0Moor Hall in Lancashire ranked in seventh place, and\u00a0the North Wales restaurant Ynyshir, where diners will gorge on 30 courses over up to five hours,\u00a0came in eighth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every British restaurant named in La Liste 2026<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nL\u2019Enclume, Lake District&#13;<br \/>\nCore by Clare Smyth, London&#13;<br \/>\nRitz Restaurant, London&#13;<br \/>\nMoor Hall, Lancashire&#13;<br \/>\nYnshire, North Wales&#13;<br \/>\nBelmond Le Manoir aux Quat\u2019Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire&#13;<br \/>\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne Darroze at The Connaught, London&#13;<br \/>\nThe Glenturret Lalique, Crieff&#13;<br \/>\nSushi Kanesaka, London&#13;<br \/>\nGordon Ramsay, London&#13;<br \/>\nWaterside Inn, Maidenhead&#13;<br \/>\nAlain Ducasse at The Dorchester, London&#13;<br \/>\nMidsummer House, Cambridge&#13;<br \/>\nThe Fat Duck, Bray&#13;<br \/>\nBrooklands by Claude Bosi, London&#13;<br \/>\nOsip, Bruton&#13;<br \/>\nRestaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham&#13;<br \/>\nLympstone Manor, Exmouth&#13;<br \/>\nThe Araki, London&#13;<br \/>\nThe Clove Club, Londo&#13;<br \/>\nStory, London&#13;<br \/>\nWoven by Adam Smith, Ascot&#13;<br \/>\nRow on 5, London&#13;<br \/>\nThe Angel at Hetton, Skipton&#13;<br \/>\nEdinbane Lodge, Edinbane&#13;<br \/>\nHambleton Hall, Oakham&#13;<br \/>\nRestaurant Andrew Fairlie, Auchterarder&#13;<br \/>\nAnnwn, Narberth&#13;<br \/>\nNorthcote, Blackburn&#13;<br \/>\nAllium \u2013 Askham Hall, Penrith&#13;<br \/>\nKol, London&#13;<br \/>\nM\u00fdse, York&#13;<br \/>\nOutlaw\u2019s New Road, Port Isaac&#13;<br \/>\nPaul Ainsworth at Number 6, Padstow&#13;<br \/>\nMorston Hall, Holt&#13;<br \/>\nPine, Newcastle upon Tyne&#13;<br \/>\nSketch \u2013 The Lecture Room &amp; Library, London&#13;<br \/>\nAlex Dilling at Hotel Caf\u00e9 Royal, London&#13;<br \/>\nA Wong, London&#13;<br \/>\nEndo at the Rotunda, London&#13;<br \/>\nThe Black Swan at Oldstead, York&#13;<br \/>\nOpheem, Birmingham&#13;<br \/>\nThe Dining Room at Whatley Manor, Malmesbury&#13;<br \/>\nThe Sportsman, Whitstable&#13;<br \/>\nThe Forest Side, Ambleside&#13;<br \/>\nHide and Fox, Hythe&#13;<br \/>\nThe Latymer, Bagshot&#13;<br \/>\nSolstice by Kenny Atkinson, Newcastle upon Tyne&#13;<br \/>\nDa Terra, London&#13;<br \/>\nHouse of Tides, Newcastle upon Tyne&#13;<br \/>\nInterlude, Horsham&#13;<br \/>\nKitchen Table, London&#13;<br \/>\nMuse, London&#13;<br \/>\nShaun Rankin at Grantley Hall, Ripon&#13;<br \/>\nThe Whitebrook, Monmouth&#13;<br \/>\nTrivet, London&#13;<br \/>\nCornus, London&#13;<br \/>\nThe Old Stamp House, Ambleside&#13;<br \/>\nIkoyi, London&#13;<br \/>\nSosban and The Old Butchers, Menai Bridge&#13;<br \/>\nCedar Tree by Hrishikesh Desai, Brampton&#13;<br \/>\nHjem, Hexham&#13;<br \/>\nThe Kitchin, Edinburgh&#13;<br \/>\nThe Ledbury, London&#13;<br \/>\nDinner by Heston Blumenthal, London&#13;<br \/>\nLake Road Kitchen, Ambleside&#13;<br \/>\nLe Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham&#13;<br \/>\nRestaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh&#13;<br \/>\nThe Cocochine, London&#13;<br \/>\nHumble Chicken, London&#13;<br \/>\nOX (NI), Belfast&#13;<br \/>\nThe Peat Inn, Cupar&#13;<br \/>\nHaar, St Andrews&#13;<br \/>\nThe Hand &amp; Flowers, Marlow&#13;<br \/>\nGravetye Manor, East Grinstead&#13;<br \/>\nInver, Cairndow&#13;<br \/>\nOrmer Mayfair, London&#13;<br \/>\nForge at Middleton Lodge Estate, Richmond&#13;<br \/>\nHome by James Sommerin, Penarth&#13;<br \/>\nSOURCE at Gilpin Hotel, Windermere&#13;<br \/>\nCail Bruich, Glasgow&#13;<br \/>\nNumber One at The Balmoral, Edinburgh&#13;<br \/>\nGymkhana, London&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two British vineyards have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/news\/two-british-vineyards-have-been-named-the-best-in-the-world-for-2025-112025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named the best in the world for 2025<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of London\u2019s greatest restaurants is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/news\/one-of-londons-greatest-restaurants-is-opening-a-new-location-outside-the-capital-111825\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening a new location outside the capital<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay in the loop:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/newsletter?cid=uk~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" data-modified-href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/newsletter?cid=uk~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" data-modified- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign up to our free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prestigious restaurant ranking La Liste has just announced its top 1,000 restaurants in the world for 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44284,59,57,58,50,47914,3783,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-289919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-eating","tag-restaurants","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}