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A guide to the world’s truly
exemplary, organic, sustainable,
and ethical restaurants.

The truly good restaurants in forty-five countries, selected by fifty-seven of the world’s most respected food writers.


Today’s featured restaurants


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Our editors

Each restaurant featured on this website was selected on merit by a team of fifty-seven editors, among them many of the world’s most respected food writers in forty-five countries.

Read about our editors here.

Geoff Blackwell & Ruth Hobday, publishers

“Of all the qualities that distinguish a truly outstanding restaurant or food experience, perhaps truth, love and care are the most important.

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Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery guidebooks for the UK, USA and Australia together with a World edition, were released in November 2018. Each edition was designed and produced to an award-winning standard, and is distributed by leading publishers’ Abrams Books and Thames & Hudson to bookshops, and design and gift stores around the world. Collectively they feature 1,250 restaurants in forty-five countries.

Find out where you can buy the books here.

Giles Coren

"The spirit of Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery is something you can sense the moment you walk into a restaurant.