South Yorkshire Restaurant Guide

“The best thing to happen in Sheffield in the last 20 years!” – This “exciting”, Nordic-inspired venture “in a (comfortable) shipping container” is “one of those places you go and find yourself talking about a lot… because it’s amazing!”. Service from a “passionate young team” is “thoughtful but relaxed”, and Luke French’s “fantastically innovative, fairly priced tasting menus” of small plates deliver “some very advanced and clever cooking”.

This striking, Kiwi-owned former industrial space, with vaulted red-brick ceiling in the Cultural Industries Quarter provides a “quirky, original and an all-round excellent experience” incorporating “very good coffee” (it has ties with Shoreditch’s excellent Ozone coffee) and “good food that’s out of the ordinary”. “It’s a top place for brunch”.

“One of the best Italian restaurants in the North of England” is “run by a young couple with children, and unusually, of the two, the chef is the woman”. The “rare” and “excellent” wine list shares honours with the “brilliant cooking”.

Maurizio Mori’s much-loved Eccleshall operation (est. 1996) offers “the full, noisy Italian experience – home-style cooking, wonderful wine list and frenetic staff”.

This popular, “cheap ’n’ cheerful” Mexican cantina has been pumping out high-quality burritos, tacos, nachos and quesadillas for almost ten years. Eat in or take-away either here or at the Sharrow Vale Road sibling.

“Window seats have interesting views” at this pub on the edge of the Peak District. Run in part by local food hero Richard Smith, the food ranges between hearty classic dishes and more imaginative options.

“One of Sheffield’s old industrial spaces, converted into a comfortable restaurant with quirky style”, and going like a dream since the then ‘Runaway Girl’ featured on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares in 2008; “they have a nicely considered menu with some interesting (Yorks-centric) choices”, and the fishcakes are a “classic well worth trying”.

A “lovely, friendly dining pub in a gentrifying part of Sheffield’s old industrial centre”; “they’re unafraid of strong, punchy flavour combinations,” and the locally sourced food can be “splendid” at times. (Owners The Milestone Group launched a vast 14,000 sq ft food hall inspired by SE Asia’s hawker markets, in the Rutland Cutlery Works, in November 2018).