British GQ has announced the shortlist for its Food & Drink Awards 2018. Voted for by readers of British GQ, the winners of the 4th annual GQ Food & Drink Awards, presented by Veuve Clicquo,t will be announced in April.

Best Restaurant
Westerns Laundry (London)
Core by Clare Smyth (London)
Native (London)
The Barbary (London)
The Spanish Butcher (Glasgow)

Best Bar in partnership with Belvedere Vodka
Black Rock/The Devil’s Darling (London)
Swift (London)
Mint Gun Club (London)
Punch Room (London) 

 Best Sommelier
Patrick Frawley at Restaurant Story (London)
Christopher Lecoufle at Les 110 De Taillevent (London)
Sonal Clare at Purnell’s (Birmingham)
Arnaud Goubet at Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons (Oxfordshire)
Alastair England at Zuma Group 

Best Chef
Andrew Wong at A Wong (London)
Anne-Sophie Pic at La Dame De Pic (London)
Tom Sellers at Restaurant Story (London)
Paul Ainsworth at No6 (Padstow)
Mitsuhiro Araki at The Araki (London) 

Best Restaurateur
Ben Chapman of Smoking Goat (London)
Karam, Sunaina and Jyotin Sethi of JKS Restaurants
Jeremy Roberts of Living Ventures
Zoë and Leo Paskin of The Palomar (London)
Tom Kerridge

Best Hotel
Lympstone Manor (Exmouth)
Nobu (London)
The Ned (London)
The Mandrake (London)
Dakota (Leeds) 

Best Interior
Ichibuns (London)
Sketch (London)
Nine Lives (London)
Isabel (Londno)
Bob Bob Ricard (London) 

Best Front of House
David Galetti at Mere (London)
Joe Paulinski at Restaurant Story (London)
Ed Thaw at Ellory (London)
Sandia Chang at Bubbledogs (London)
Daniel Crump at The Oxford Blue (Berkshire)

Best Overall Experience
Carousel (London)
Swingers (London)
L’Enclume (Cumbria)
The Man Behind the Curtain (Leeds)
The Woodspeen (Berkshire) 

Best Breakthrough
Ceremony (London)
The Frog (London)
Smoke & Salt, Pop Brixton (London)
Moor Hall (Lancashire)
108 Garage (London)

Best Pub
The Duck Inn (Norfolk)
The Oxford Blue (Berkshire)
The Hunworth Bell (Norfolk)
The King’s Arms (Oxfordshire)
The Fuzzy Duck (Warwickshire)

Veuve Clicquot Innovator Award
Untitled (London)
Cook for Syria (London)
Dan Barber at wastED (London)
Ikoyi (Londno)
Soho House Group