Channel Islands named the UK's top gastronomic hotspot

Region boasts 16 restaurants in the Good Food Guide across Jersey, Guernsey and Sark

Move over, Ludlow and Cumbria. They may involve a hop across the sea for most prospective diners, but that has not stopped the Channel Islands being crowned the UK’s top gastronomic “hotspot” in a prestigious annual restaurant guide.

For the first time in its 70-year history, The Good Food Guide has drawn up a list of what it deems to be the regions serving up the very best food in the country, based on its inspectors’ scores from anonymous visits and adjusted for population size.