The Good Food Guide has announced it’s Readers’ Top Restaurants for 2014 and we thought we’d check on their disabled credentials with varying results. We agree with Delifonseca as the overall winner but some of the others have room to improve re Blue Badge Style & our exacting standards (I guess we ask for too much!!).
- East of England – The Leaping Hare, Stanton, Suffolk Is a 400 year old barn – Access is flat and they have a disabled toilet
Leaping Hare in Wyken is 400 Year Old Barn With Disabled facilities
- London – Boqueria Tapas, Brixton – Flat Access and a big toilet but no grab rails – why the hell not!
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Boqueria Brixton Tapas With Disabled Loo But No Bars - Midlands – Turners Restaurant, Birmingham – 1 inch step to get in and double doors wide enough for a wheelchair. Plus a disabled toilet
- North East – Eric’s Restaurant, Huddersfield – 3 steps to get into the building so assistance is required and there’s no disabled toilet but they have plans for one in the future.
- North West – Delifonseca, Brunswick Dock, Liverpool – Flat access and a disabled toilet
- Northern Ireland – Balloo House, Killinchy – Flat access from car park but a step with a portable ramp to the bar, where the disabled toilet is situated.
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Balloo House Has Disabled Toilet & A Ramp – They’ve Done A Good Job - Scotland – The Gardener’s Cottage, Edinburgh – Steep gravel path up to restaurant but has been achieved in a wheelchair (with assistance), sticks could be tricky. Disabled toilet is for ambulant disabled as Grade II Listed and door frames are too narrow for a full disabled toilet. Grrrrr the old Grade II debate!
- South East – Purefoy Arms, Preston Candover, Hampshire – Did not Respond To Our Enquiry
- South West – The Seahorse, Dartmouth, Devon – Editors’ best seafood resto. – Did not Respond To Our Enquiry
- Wales – Sosban, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire – Flat access and a disabled toilet and it’s a Grade II Listed building – well I never!!
Delifonseca has been crowned The Good Food Guide Readers’ Restaurant of the Year for 2014. The restaurant, deli and food store in Liverpool’s Docks has a ‘serious restaurant’ where the menu changes every day. Tell us if you’ve been.