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Liverpool has been named UK’s best city for food

13 March 2025 By Editor 2 min read
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Liverpool has been named as the UK’s best city for food by Time Out. The city has once again been crowned the best UK city for food, beating Manchester, London and Brighton for the top spot.

A survey by Time Out recently named New Orleans as the best city for food in the whole world and while no UK cities made the worldwide top 20, Liverpool came the closest to making the cut, placing 26th globally.

The survey seen thousands of people take part which looked at a range of factors including food quality and affordability – and the 11 best UK cities for culinary delights have now been revealed.

Placing top was of the UK’s best food cities was, Liverpool! A whopping 84 percent of respondents rated Liverpool’s quality of restaurants, with a still-very-impressive 68 percent saying the food scene is affordable. Liverpool came the closest to Time Out’s overall global top 20 food cities, placing 26th in the worldwide list.

Their recent guide to the best restaurants in Liverpool, which was recently updated by their local expert Alice Porter, who said the city is ‘is the most exciting city for food in the UK right now’, seen newcomer Nord making it onto the list and top of the pile for Time Out in ’Pool is Middle Eastern-inspired small plates was restaurant Maray.

The UK’s 11 best food cities in 2025, according to Time Out

  1. Liverpool
  2. Brighton
  3. London
  4. Cardiff
  5. Bristol
  6. Edinburgh
  7. Glasgow
  8. Belfast
  9. Leeds
  10. Manchester
  11. Birmingham

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