Every Michelin-starred restaurant where you can get a luxury 3-course meal for less than £50 – as new list released
FANCY treating your Valentine to luxurious grub but put off by the hefty price tag?
We have good news - there are now 30 Michelin-starred restaurants across the UK serving up three-course meals for under £50.
Just in time for the most romantic day of the year, the 2025 Michelin guide for the UK has been published.
The cheapest by far is TV chef Tom Kerridge's £15 two-course lunch deal at The Coach in Buckinghamshire.
The pub also charges an extra £7.50 to make the meal three course - quids in.
Diners will be treated to a celery soup with truffle and hazelnut pesto to start, followed by a beef, ale and onion pot pie and a pineapple savarin with coconut rum cream to finish.
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The menu changes weekly and is only available throughout the week days.
According to the posh pub's website, the kitchen offers a vegan option.
Heft in Newton in Cartmel, Cumbria, offers a set four-course lunch for £45.
The 17th-century village inn is run by a Cumbrian born-and-bred couple who are hugely popular with the locals.
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If you're planning a seaside trip this summer, check out Elephant in Torquay.
The restaurant looks over Torquay Harbour and the ingredients for the dishes come from owner Simon Hulstone's 96-acre farm.
In Cheltenham, Gloucestershire is Le Champignon Sauvage, there are two-course lunch and dinner menus for £40 and three courses for £47.
As the name suggests, the chefs at David and Helen Everitt-Matthias' restaurant offer French cuisine with a tres bien price tag.
Kent has three budget-friendly Michelin star eateries with meals for under £50: Bridge Arms in Bridge, Fordwich Arms, Fordwich and Hide and Fox, Saltwood.
The UK's 30 Michelin-starred restaurants under £50
Thought £50 wouldn't get you far in a Michelin-starred restaurant? Well you thought wrong. Here is the full list of budget-friendly eateries:
Buckinghamshire
The Coach, Marlow - set lunch, two courses for £15 and a third for £7.50. Cuisine: Modern British
Cumbria
Heft, Newton in Cartmel - set four-course lunch for £45. Cuisine: seasonal small plates
Devon
Elephant, Torquay – two-course set lunch menu for £34.50 or three courses for £39.75. Cuisine: Seafood and Modern British
Masons Arms, Knowstone – three-course lunch menu for £39.50. Cuisine: Classic French
Gloucestershire
Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham - set two-course lunch and dinner menus for £40 or three courses for £47. Cuisine: Classic French
Herefordshire
33 The Homend, Ledbury - lunchtime two courses £40 or three for £48. Cuisine: Seafood and Modern British
Kent
Bridge Arms, Bridge - three-course set menu for £35 available Wednesday to Friday lunchtime and Wednesday and Thursday dinner. Cuisine: Modern British
Fordwich Arms, Fordwich - three-course set menu available Wednesday to Friday lunch and Wednesday and Thursday dinner for £45. Cuisine: Modern
Hide and Fox, Saltwood - set three-course lunch for £48 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Cuisine: Modern British
Lancashire
Hambleton Hall, Hambleton - two courses for £48.50, but only until 28 February. Cuisine: Classic
The Barn, Aughton - three-course set lunch for £48 available Thursday to Saturday. Cuisine: Modern British
Leicestershire
John's House, Mountsorrel - three-course lunch menu for £49 between Wednesday and Saturday. Cuisine: Modern
London
Benares, Mayfair - two-course set lunch menu for £43 or three courses for £49. Cuisine: Indian
Chishuru, Fitzrovia - set lunch menu for £45. Cuisine: African
Galvin La Chapelle, The City - two-course set lunch menu available Monday to Saturday for £49. Cuisine: French
La Trompette, Chiswick - three-course lunch for £39.50 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Cuisine: Modern British
Portland, Fitzrovia - two-course lunch menu for £49. Cuisine: Modern
The Ninth, Fitzrovia - set two-course lunch menu for £33 or three courses for £38 from Monday to Saturday. Cuisine: Mediterranean
Trishna, Marylebone - three-course lunch or early evening tasting menu for £50. Cuisine: Indian
Veeraswamy, Regent Street - two-course lunch for £42 or three courses for £48 available on Saturday and Sunday. Cuisine: Indian
Elystan Street, London - three-course set menu at specific times between Monday and Saturday for £45. Cuisine: Modern British
Wild Honey St James, West End - winter "working lunch" menu comes with three courses for £45 or £59 including a glass of champagne, coffee and canelé. Cuisine: Modern British
Monmouthshire
Walnut Tree, Llanddewi Skirrid - set two-course lunch menu for £42 or three courses for £50. Cuisine: Modern British
Somerset
Bulrush, Bristol - set lunch menu for £48. Cuisine: Modern British
Wilsons, Bristol - three course for £35, set menu, Wednesday to Friday lunch. Cuisine: Modern
Suffolk
Pea Porridge, Bury St Edmunds - four-course lunch menu for £50. Cuisine: Mediterranean
Surrey
Starling, Esher - Set lunch menu, £30 for three courses running from Wednesday to Friday. Cuisine: Modern British
Tyne and Wear
House of Tides, Newcastle - Sunday feast menu for £50. Cuisine: Modern Cuisine
Wales
Gorse, Cardiff - four courses for £45. Cuisine: Modern Welsh
Warwickshire
The Cross, Kenilworth – three-course lunch menu for £50. Cuisine: British Contemporary
In London, there are a staggering 10 restaurants, serving a wide variety of cuisine from across the globe.
In Mayfair, one of the swankiest neighbourhoods in the city, you'll find Benares - an Indian restaurant where the decor is as decadent as the food.
Further up the country is John's House in Mountsorrel, Lancashire, lining tummies with a three-course lunch menu for £49 from Wednesday to Saturday.
This comes after a vegan restaurant made history to become the first plant-based eatery to be awarded a Michelin star.
Plates London, located on Old Street, serves a fully plant-based menu and chef Kirk Haworth wowed judges by "taking his classical training and inventively adapting it to a vegan diet", Michelin said.
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Asked what he loved about cooking elevated vegan dishes at the ceremony, Mr Haworth said: "Trying to get rid of that word is everything that I love about it.
"It's just about flavour, that's all it's about. Flavour, excitement, innovation, and trying to take it to a new space of deliciousness."
