Great Food Club

Restaurants, pubs, producers and food shops in our online guide get there on merit, not because they pay us a fee. Our criteria for adding businesses to our guide consists of one question: would we recommend this independent food or drink business to a discerning friend? If the answer is yes, we add them, free of charge. Our reviewers visit - or try the wares of - every business first to see if it meets our criteria before adding them to our guide. We occasionally remove places from our network if we feel they fall outside our criteria. You can apply to join Great Food Club as a business here. After recommending a business, we invite the owner to run a member offer to GFC members. We leave this up to each business owner and understand that some do not wish to. Every October we announce our annual award-winners, and each January we publish our annual Great Food Club Handbook - our printed guide to the East Midlands' best food & drink independents. Great Food Club was launched in 2010 and is based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire - the Rural Capital of Food. Our ethos