The Xara Palace Hotel's De Mondion Restaurant in Mdina has won the Top Overall and Top Food Fine Dining Restaurant awards in this year's survey conducted annually by the Definitive(ly) Good Guide to Restaurants.

The Hilton's Blue Elephant in St Julians scored the highest for service and ambience.

More than 1,250 regular diners took part in the survey, the largest response to-date, voting for their favourite restaurants.

As respondents eat out at least twice a week on average, this is the equivalent of more than 130,000 individual dining experiences.

The results were revealed during the guide's gala dinner.

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