The Good Food Guide has today announced its Top 50 Best Sunday Roasts in Britain, and two in Cumbria made the cut.

The Guide’s search for the Best Sunday Roast, sponsored by Koffmann’s Potatoes and Tracklements, underlines the importance of championing those restaurants, pubs and cafes that are the backbone of the British dining scene.

Synonymous with tradition and family gatherings and offered everywhere from simple neighbourhood cafes to grand hotel dining rooms, it is obvious from the thousands of nominations received that a Sunday roast is, by far, Britain’s favourite meal with 75% of Good Food Guide readers saying a roast is Britain’s most famous dish.  

I mean, that was always going to be the case, surely? Well, here are the roasted facts.

The Good Food Guide also quizzed its readers about their Sunday roast habits, giving us a fantastic insight into Britain’s favourite meal.

Half of Good Food Guide readers eat a roast on another day of the week than Sunday with 79% eating a Sunday roast all year round.

The most popular roast meat was, as perhaps expected, roast beef (50%) followed by lamb (22%).

Roast potatoes are the nation’s favourite side dish with cauliflower cheese coming in second - both beating the Yorkshire pudding.

Gravy is the favourite condiment (correct) although 50% of those surveyed don’t think their roast is served with enough gravy (also correct).

But anyone, here are the all-important results.

The best roasts in north-west England:

  • Fold, Marple Bridge, Greater Manchester  
  • Heft, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria  
  • Shrub, Chester, Cheshire Best Vegan Sunday Roast
  • Solo, Aughton, Lancashire  
  • The Black Bull, Sedbergh, Cumbria  

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The Black Bull, Sedbergh, Cumbria  

The Black Bull in Sedbergh offers contemporary accommodation, a stylish bar and a restaurant with a unique menu. 

Their website states: "There's always a warm welcome at the Black Bull, Sedbergh. We are immensely proud of our team, people who are professional, unstuffy and dedicated to ensuring your stay with us is a memorable one."

Husband and wife Nina and James have a simple food ethos.

To use only the best seasonal ingredients available from what they refer to as the neck of Britain, the counties of Yorkshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham, Derbyshire and Cheshire.

It is one of the highest-rated restaurants on Tripadvisor.

Heft, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria

A restaurant that is highly acclaimed.

Their website reads: "Like the Herdwick, Kevin & Nicola Tickle are ‘hefted’ to Cumbria.

"Nicola is from a family that has continuously farmed, the fells and valleys, of the Lake District since the 1600s.

"Kevin, also Cumbrian born, was taught by his father to forage and fish. He understands the rhythms of the lakes, becks, heaths and the sea.

"They are of this landscape. Cumbria is their ‘heft’".

Heft is also highly-rated on Tripadvisor.