Start from 40 curated places around Sheffield, GB, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
JÖRO
Sheffield's most acclaimed restaurant, where chef Luke French serves an ambitious tasting menu blending Nordic and Japanese ideas with Yorkshire produce. It's the city's destination fine-dining experience. Best for a special, considered tasting dinner; book well ahead.
KONJO
A buzzy Kelham Island spot from the JÖRO team serving bold East Asian street food, with flame-grilled skewers, bao buns, and rice bowls drawing on Japanese and Korean flavours. It's the fun, casual side of the city's best kitchen. Best for a lively, well-priced dinner of skewers and bao.
Trails & outdoors
Stanage Edge
The most famous gritstone edge in the Peak District, a long escarpment of dark rock above Hathersage with sweeping moorland views, beloved of walkers and climbers. The skyline walk along the top is glorious. Best for a moderate-to-hard moorland walk with big views, a short drive west of the city.
Higger Tor
A flat-topped gritstone tor above the Burbage Valley with panoramic Peak District views and the Iron Age hillfort of Carl Wark nearby. It's a short, dramatic walk into wild-feeling moorland minutes from the city. Best for a moderate walk to a rocky summit with huge views.
Things to do
Kelham Island Museum
A museum of Sheffield's steel and industrial heritage on the Kelham Island site, home to the most powerful working steam engine in Europe, fired up to thunder into life on demonstration days. It's a vivid, loud slice of the city's making. Best for a family visit, timed for the steam-engine demonstration.
Millennium Gallery
A free city-centre gallery showing international touring exhibitions alongside Sheffield's own metalwork and design collections, opening straight into the Winter Garden. It's the cultural gateway to the centre. Best for an hour of art and design, free, with the Winter Garden next door.
Landmarks & sights
Sheffield Winter Garden
One of the largest urban glasshouses in Europe, a soaring temperate greenhouse in the heart of the city sheltering 2,500 plants from around the world, free to enter. It connects straight into the Millennium Gallery and the central squares. Best for a free, warm wander among the planting, a perfect rainy-day stop.
Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Nineteen acres of Victorian gardens near Ecclesall Road, with restored glass pavilions, themed plantings, and a bear pit, all free to enter. It's a beloved local green space with genuine heritage. Best for a relaxed stroll through the glasshouses and gardens on a fine afternoon.