The bestselling restaurant guide has published its annual ranking of the UK's Top 50 restaurants. Restaurants in The Good Food Guide are awarded a cooking score out of 10, with L'Enclume joining Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck as one of only two restaurants in the UK to achieve this rating. Elizabeth Carter, consultant editor of The Good Food Guide, explained what makes L'Enclume so deserving of its perfect 10 cooking rating: "L'Enclume is in a league of its own, totally different to the Fat Duck and its grandstanding fairground antics, but uniquely mind-blowing in its own way. "It's a world-class destination, in harmony with its local community, serving food that is hard-wired to the Cumbrian soil. Rogan has taken matters into his own hands and found a way of creating miracles from nature, while respecting its bounty and responding to its seasonal capriciousness." Simon Rogan, chef patron at L'Enclume, comments on his success: "We are over the moon and never in my wildest dreams did I think we would get the maximum score. It's brilliant for the team as now we are among a very elite company of people who have achieved this status, but we will continue to push forward with all the projects we have going on up here and try our best to make it even better." Restaurant Sat Bains, in Nottinghamshire, and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in London, stick at the number three and four spots respectively. Cornish favourite Restaurant Nathan Outlaw retains the number five place with Jason Atherton's Pollen Street Social, in London, rising to number six. Raymond Blanc's always-popular Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons is ranked seventh; Hibiscus in London, eighth, and The Square, also in London, is ninth. London restaurant The Ledbury, hit by rioters a year ago, features in the top 10 listing for the first time at number ten. The Good Food Guide 2013 publishes on 3rd September 2012 priced £17.99. For the full Top 50 restaurants listing please email [email protected].