Somerset's top 31 restaurants (IMO)

Otherwise known as the WFJ’s very biased, and probably eternally provisional, 'power rankings'

One of Higher Farm’s offerings

It has *gasp!* been almost a year since we checked in on what I call the WFJ’s Provisional Power Ranking of Somerset Restaurants. So here we are, with a well overdue update.

For those that need a reminder (myself included), this is an ongoing attempt to rate Somerset’s independent restaurants comparative to one another. It is based on the American sports’ system of comparing teams in the same league with as little fuss or confusion as possible, giving a general overview of how good a particular team is beyond simply their success rate in fixtures.

The jury’s still out as to whether this way of doing it is actually useful or not when applied to restaurants in Somerset – I’d be happy to know whether you think either way in the comments or subscriber chat.

For more disclaimers, head to the original post from June last year. But just in case it wasn’t clear already, these rankings are based on my perception of them – Osip, for example, is constantly rated as the best restaurant in the UK (see The Good Food Guide’s recent assessment, for instance), yet for me there’s something about Pennard Hill’s more accessible and immediate farm-to-table-ness (e.g. what’s come courtesy of their mangalitsa pigs, or what game bird Tom the co-host and chef has shot locally) that’s what keeps it at number one.

As for new places I’ve visited since the initial ranking, they include:

Oak, Bath