Michelin star restaurant in Birmingham among most instagrammable in the UK

Travel experts have identified the most popular Michelin star restaurants across the UK - and a Birmingham venue has made the listing.

The Thinking Traveller is part of the renowned Conde Nast group which offers advice on travel experiences, destinations and inspirations across the globe.

Ahead of the new Michelin Star Guide being announced tonight (Monday, March 27) the results of research looking into how the current Michelin star restaurants rank on instagram has been released.

Birmingham has five Michelin restaurants - more than any other UK city outside London - there’s Purnells on Cornwall Street; Adams on Waterloo Street, Opheem on Summer Row, Carters of Moseley and Simpsons in Edgbaston. And out of these, Opheem has been identified by the travel experts as the 32nd most instagrammable restaurant in the UK.

Opheem, run by acclaimed chef Aktar Islam, had 1,552 hashtags on the social media platform. Top of the list was Sketch in London which had 89,643.

In total 22 of the restaurants on the list were based in the capital. Here’s the full list of the most instagrammable restaurants in the UK.

1. Sketch - London, England – 89,643
2. Dinner by Heston – London, England – 22,999
3. The Fat Duck – Maidenhead, England – 19,024
4. City Social – London, England – 14,713
5. L’Enclume – Cartmel, England – 9,771
6. Pollen Street Social – London, England – 8,284
7. The Goring – London, England – 8,284
8. Le Gavroche – London, England – 6,941
9. The Clove Club – London, England – 6,860
10. La Dame de Pic – London, England – 6,347
11. Restaurant Gordon Ramsey – London, England – 5,416
12. Le Manior aux Quat’Saisons – Oxford, England – 5,344
13. Hakkasan Mayfair – London, England – 5,301
14. Waterside Inn – Maidenhead, England – 5,095
15. Moor Hall – Lancashire, England - 4,813
16. Galvin La Chapelle – London, England - 4,693
17. Core By Clare Smyth – London, England - 4,451
18. Chez Bruce - London, England - 4,442
19. Hide – London, England - 4,35
20. A Wong – London, England - 4,150
21. St John – London, England - 3,989
22. Midsummer House – Cambridge, England -3,896
23. Ikoyi – London, England – 3,487
24. Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester – London, England – 3,336
25. Jamavar – London, England – 3,279
26. The Hand and Flowers – Marlow, England – 3,050
27. House of Tides – Newcastle, England – 2,935
28. Hélène Darroze at The Connaught – London, England – 2,607
29. Frog By Adam Handling – London, England – 2,507
30. Brat – London, England – 1,760
31. Cail Bruich – Glasgow, Scotland – 1,618
32. Opheem – Birmingham, England – 1,552
33. Ynshir - Powys, Wales – 1,490
34. OX – Belfast, Northern Ireland – 1,357
35. Kol – Lodon, England – 1,081

Methodology

To find the most Instagrammed restaurants in Europe, The Thinking Traveller said that it researched existing most popular Michelin star restaurants articles for each country and cross referenced them with the Michelin star guide to create seed lists. Experts then recorded the number of hashtags on Instagram attributed to each restaurant by searching for the restaurant’s name on Instagram. Once we had finalised the lists, they used that data to decipher the most Instagrammed restaurants throughout the UK.