Best Restaurants & Bars in Europe

Real reviews · Updated monthly · No paid placements

Portugal food scenePortugal food scenePortugal food scene
28,667 reviews analysed

Portugal

12 cities · 1,903 venues · Aveiro, Braga, Cascais, Coimbra...

UK food sceneUK food sceneUK food scene
24,630 reviews analysed

UK

8 cities · 1,556 venues · Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh...

Spain food sceneSpain food sceneSpain food scene
23,404 reviews analysed

Spain

13 cities · 1,750 venues · Bilbao, Burgos, Cádiz, Girona...

79,512 written reviews analysed across 5,556 venues · 1,348 made the Hot List · Updated weekly

TimeOut has London. Eater has Barcelona. The Infatuation has Lisbon and Madrid. Good — you don't need another guide to those cities. You need someone tracking the nearly 6,000 restaurants and bars in Porto, Bilbao, Manchester, and 30 other cities where the locals eat and the travel blogs don't bother looking.

★1,348 venues rankedUpdated monthly✓Independents only●0 paid placements

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We track where locals write reviews, not where tourists take photos.

Only written reviews count

Star taps are easy to game. We only count reviews where someone cared enough to describe their experience.

Local voices first

We score venues on native-language review volume. Regular customers all year round, not just tourist season. That tells you which places actually serve their neighbourhood.

No chains. Ever.

Every venue is independently owned. No franchises, no fast food, no corporate restaurants.

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You can't buy your way onto our lists. Rankings come from real reviews by real people.

Common Questions

How are venues ranked?
Every city is split into walkable food zones — clusters of independent restaurants and bars around a geographic epicentre. To qualify, a venue needs a 4.0+ Google rating, 10+ reviews, and can't be a chain or franchise. From there, our Hot Score (out of 100) weighs four things: how many written reviews came in the last 90 days (velocity, 30 pts), how recent those reviews are (recency, 25 pts), the baseline Google rating (25 pts), and how complete their Google Business Profile is (20 pts). Star-only ratings and one-line reviews don't count — only written reviews over 50 characters. Rankings recalculate weekly. Nobody pays to be on the list.
Why don't you cover London, Lisbon, Madrid or Barcelona?
TimeOut, Eater and The Infatuation already do those cities better than we ever would. What nobody's doing is tracking the 1,000+ independent restaurants and bars in places like Porto, Bilbao, Manchester, and Seville with actual review data. Porto, not Lisbon. Bilbao, not Madrid. Manchester, not London. That's where you'll eat better for less and not fight for a table.
How often are guides updated?
All guides are updated monthly to reflect current quality and new openings.
Can venues pay to be featured?
No. Rankings come from real reviews by real people on Google - the world's biggest review platform. We surface the data, we don't manipulate it.