Star Inn is Britain's best gastropub

The Star Inn, at Harome, North Yorkshire, has been voted the UK's best gastropub in a prestigious industry poll.

The Top 30 Gastropub Awards are organised by PubChef magazine, the MA's food magazine.

Now in its second year, the Top 30 Gastropubs are based on an industry vote of 400 top industry professionals, including gastropub operators, food critics, pub guide editors and inspectors and food writers.

PubChef editor Jo Bruce said: "This really is the industry's choice, with those in the pub food know casting their votes for the best in the industry."

Since Andrew and Jacqui Pern bought the freehold in 1996, the Michelin-starred Star Inn has become one of the UK's most legendary gastropubs. The pub serves between 800 and 1000 covers a week, with pan-roast saddle of Duncombe Park roe deer with a little venison cottage pie amongst its best-selling dishes.

The Star also offers top-notch accommodation in the form of an eight-room boutique hotel, Cross House Lodge and cottage accommodation at Black Eagle Cottages and Farmhouse.

Last year Andrew launched a range of speciality sauces and this year he published his first book, Black pudding & foie gras.

"The Star Inn, which has a Michelin star amongst its many accolades, is an amazing business which continues to evolve through the passion and energy of its owners Andrew and Jacquie Pern," said Bruce. "It's one of those iconic pubs that everyone should visit at least once."

Tom and Beth Kerridge's Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, won the Chef's Choice Award and the Princess Victoria in Shepherd's Bush was awarded Newcomer of the Year.

The UK's Top 30 Gastropubs were voted as:

1 The Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire

2 The Hand & Flowers, Marlow, Buckinghamshire

3 Anchor & Hope, Waterloo, London, SE1 8LP

4 The Olive Branch, Clipsham, Rutland

5 Three Fishes, Mitton, Lancashire

6 Royal Oak, Paley Street, Berkshire

7 The Angel, Nr Skipton, Yorkshire

8 The Kingham Plough, Nr Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

9 The Hinds Head, Bray, Berkshire

10 The Crooked Billet, Stoke Row, Henley-on-Thames

11 Anglesea Arms, Hammersmith, London, W6 0UR

12 The Dawnay Arms, Newton on Ouse, North Yorkshire

13 The Ginger Pig, Hove, East Sussex

14 The Gun, Docklands, London, E14 9NS

15 The Eagle, Farringdon, London, EC1R 3AL

16 The Pipe & Glass, Beverley, South Dalton, East Yorkshire

17 The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent

18 The Ship, Wandsworth, London, SW18 1TB

19 Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon

20 Princess Victoria, Shepherds Bush, London, W12 9DT

21 The Barrasford Arms, Nr Hexham, Northumberland

22 The Garrison, Bermondsey, London, SE1 3XB

23 The Kings Head, Bledington, Oxon

24 Peat Spade Inn, Longstock, Stockbridge, Hampshire

25 Carpenters Arms, Hammersmith, London, W6 9BG

26 Paradise By Way of Kensal Green, London, W10 4AE

27 Pot Kiln, Frilsham, Yattendon

28 Gurnards head, St Ives, Cornwall

29 The Narrow, Limehouse, London, E14 8DP

30 The Punchbowl, Crosthwaite, Lyth Valley, Cumbria

The Top 30 Gastropub Awards is sponsored by Addlestones. For more information visit www.addlestones.co.uk​. Additional partners are Williams and Falcom Foodservice and Ballymaloe Country Relish.

For more information and profiles of the winning pubs visit www.top30gastropubs.co.uk​.