Award Winning Places to Eat

The Good Food Guide - 100 Best Local Restaurants 2024

The award celebrating fabulous independent restaurants with winners shortlisted from thousands of votes 

• Mori Mori, Margate 

The Good Beer Guide 2024

This is a definitive beer drinker’s guide for those seeking the best pints in the nation’s pubs. Compiled by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale).

• Bake and Alehouse, Westgate-on-Sea
• Fez, Margate
• The Two Halves, Margate
• Mechanical Elephant, Margate 
• Magnet, Broadstairs 
• Royston Micropub, Broadstairs
• The Montefiore Arms, Ramsgate
• The Artillery Arms, Ramsgate
• Royal Victoria Pavilion (Wetherspoons), Ramsgate
• Hovelling Boat Inn, Ramsgate
• Pub Ramsgate
• Red Lion, Ramsgate

2023 Harden’s Restaurant Guide

Entries based on customer feedback rather than professional inspectors

• Angela's, Margate
• Bottega Caruso, Margate 
• Buoy and Oyster, Margate
• Dory's, Margate 
• Sargasso, Margate
• Kebbells, Broadstairs
• Posillipo, Broadstairs
• Stark, Broadstairs

Good Food Guide 2023

The Guide is about empowering diners, helping readers to find the very best places to eat and encouraging restaurants to offer the best possible food, service and experience

• Quince, Westgate 
• Angela’s, Margate
• Dory’s, Margate
• Bottega Caruso, Margate 
• Sargasso, Margate 
• Albarino, Broadstairs

Good Food Awards 2023

The National Good Food Awards were launched in 2002 and recognise those who strive for culinary excellence within their field. 

*Buoy and Oyster, Margate

CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale)

* The Two Halves, Margate - Micropub of the Year and Overall Pub of the Year 2022

* Little Swift, Margate - Cider Pub of the Year 2022

* The Magnet, Broadstairs - Traditional Pub of the Year and Runner-Up Pub of the Year 

* The Artillery Arms, Ramsgate - Runner-Up Pub of the Year

* Hair of the Dog, Minster - Runner-Up Pub of the Year

The Michelin Guide 2022

• Stark, Broadstairs - 1 Michelin Star
• Sargasso, Margate - Michelin Bib Gourmand
• Angela's, Margate - Green Star Award 
• Bottega Caruso, Margate
• Wyatt and Jones, Broadstairs

Good Food Guide - Platinum List 

List of restaurants from across the UK that opened pre- or mid-pandemic, all chosen for their resilience and  thriving in the face of the shifting realities of dining out during the pandemic

* Flotsam and Jetsam, Broadstairs 

The Good Beer Guide 2022

Every pub or bar listed has been carefully selected by volunteers who have visited every one and tasted their beers.

• Old Bay Alehouse, Birchington
• Bake and Alehouse, Westgate-on-Sea
  
• Fez, Margate
• The Two Halves, Margate
• The Laughing Barrel, Cliftonville, Margate
• Banks Ale and Winehouse, Margate
• White Swan, Broadstairs 
• The Four Candles, Broadstairs
• The Montefiore Arms, Ramsgate
• The Artillery Arms, Ramsgate
• Royal Victoria Pavilion (Wetherspoons), Ramsgate 
  
• Hair of the Dog, Minster