A red start to 2010!
January 17th, 2010
Yes! the results are out in case if you have not heard! A new 3 Star has been announced! Alain Ducasse’s The Dorchester joins Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck, Alain Roux’s The Waterside Inn, and Gordon Ramsay’s flagship restaurant in Chelsea in the elite club of three stars.
A total of 140 restaurants to be recognised by Michelin with a star, the highest number Britain has ever won. one new 2 Star (The Ledbury); both in London.
Also a big shout out to my friend David Thompson of Nahm (at The Halkin Hotel) for retaining his Star!! Congrats!
Included in the list of 18 new one-stars is Sienna, a small, family run restaurant in Dorset and The Harwood Arms, the first pub in London to achieve this accolade. Also, Bray-on-Thames has yet another star to add to its repertoire – The Royal Oak, a traditional village pub in nearby Paley Street. Away from England there are also three new stars in Scotland and three in Wales.
Other restaurants on the rise include The Samling in Ambleside, Cumbria, which won its first star, underlining how the Lake District is becoming one of the best places to eat in Britain, along with The Ledbury, in Notting Hill, London, which won its second star.
Gordon Ramsay, who held on to 3 Stars at Royal Hospital Road lost his one star at Claridges, just a few months after losing his head chef at the hotel, Mark Sargeant. Admitting to nearly being bankrupt in 2009, we all hope his bad spell is left behind and new things are on the rise for. And if you did not already know, after being awarded 2 Stars earlier in the month, Gordon Ramsay has sold off his Parisian Investment Gordon Ramsay au Trianon to the owners of the Trianon Palace Hotel, in Versailles, west of Paris. Fans of the chef would have all known it was his dream to open in France.
The total of 140 stars Britain won compared with 137 last year.
Alain Ducasse already holds 18 stars for his restaurants around the world, from New York to Tokyo. The only chef with more stars is Joel Robuchon, with 25.
Here is a full list of starred restaurants included in the new Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2010:
THREE STARS
LONDON
Gordon Ramsay, Chelsea
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Mayfair (new)
REST OF ENGLAND
Fat Duck, Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire
The Waterside Inn, Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire
TWO STARS
LONDON
Pied a Terre, Camden, Bloomsbury
The Ledbury, Kensington (new)
Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley, Belgravia
Le Gavroche, Mayfair
Hibiscus, Mayfair
The Square, Mayfair
L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Covent Garden
REST OF ENGLAND
Midsummer House, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon
Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Whatley Manor, Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
SCOTLAND
Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin
ONE STAR
LONDON
Chapter One, Farnborough Common, Kent
Hakkasan, Bloomsbury
Club Gascon, City of London
Rhodes Twenty Four, City of London
The Harwood Arms, Fulham (new)
River Cafe, Hammersmith
La Trompette, Chiswick
St John, Clerkenwell
Rasoi, Chelsea
Tom Aikens, Chelsea
Bingham Restaurant (at Bingham Hotel), Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey (new)
The Glasshouse, Kew, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey
Chez Bruce, Wandsworth
Amaya, Belgravia
Apsleys (at The Lanesborough Hotel), Belgravia (new)
Nahm (at The Halkin Hotel), Belgravia
Zafferano, Belgravia
Benares, Mayfair
Galvin at Windows (at London Hilton Hotel), Mayfair (new)
The Greenhouse, Mayfair
Helene Darroze at The Connaught, Mayfair
Kai, Mayfair
Maze, Mayfair
Murano, Mayfair
Nobu (at The Metropolitan), Mayfair
Nobu Berkeley St, Mayfair
Semplice, Mayfair
Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library), Mayfair
Tamarind, Mayfair (new)
Umu, Mayfair
Wild Honey, Mayfair
L’Autre Pied, Marylebone
Locanda Locatelli, Marylebone
Rhodes W1(Restaurant) (at the Cumberland), Marylebone
Texture, Marylebone (new)
Arbutus, Soho
Yauatcha, Soho
Quilon, Victoria
Roussillon, Victoria
REST OF ENGLAND
Drakes on the Pond, Abinger Hammer, Surrey
The Samling, Ambleside, Cumbria (new)
Michael Wignall at The Latymer, Bagshot, Surrey
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall, Baslow, Derbyshire
The Park (at Lucknam Park Hotel), Colerne, Wiltshire
The Terrace (at Montagu Arms), Beaulieu, Hampshire
The Pipe & Glass Inn, South Dalton, East Yorkshire (new)
The West House, Biddenden, Kent
Fraiche, Birkenhead, Merseyside
Purnell’s, Birmingham, West Midlands
Simpsons, Birmingham, West Midlands
Turners, Birmingham, West Midlands
Northcote, Langho, Lancashire
Morston Hall, Morston, Norfolk
The Burlington (at The Devonshire Arms Country House), Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire
Lords of the Manor, Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire
The Royal Oak, Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire (new)
Casamia, Bristol
The Goose, Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire (new)
Manor House Hotel and Golf Club, Castle Combe, Wiltshire
Atlantic, Jersey
Bohemia (at The Club Hotel and Spa), Jersey
Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor, Chester, Cheshire
West Stoke House, West Stoke, West Sussex
Apicius, Cranbrook, Kent
Ockenden Manor, Cuckfield, West Sussex
The New Angel, Dartmouth, Devon
Sienna, Dorchester, Dorset (new)
36 on the Quay, Emsworth, Hampshire
Read’s, Faversham, Kent
L’Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria
Harry’s Place, Great Gonerby, Lincolnshire
The Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire
The Neptune, Hunstanton, Norfolk
Box Tree, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
The Stagg Inn, Titley, Herefordshire
La Becasse, Ludlow, Shropshire
Mr Underhill’s at Dinham Weir, Ludlow, Shropshire
The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire
The Hand and Flowers, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
The Nut Tree, Murcott, Oxfordshire
Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Hambleton Hall, Hambleton, Rutland
The Yorke Arms, Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale, North Yorkshire
JSW, Petersfield, Hampshire
L’Ortolan, Shinfield, Berkshire
Drakes, Ripley, Surrey
Mallory Court, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Old Vicarage, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon
The Olive Branch and Beech House, Clipsham, Rutland
The Room in the Elephant, Torquay, Devon
Sharrow Bay Country House, Ullswater, Cumbria
Auberge du Lac, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent
The Hambrough, Isle of Wight
5 North St, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Holbeck Ghyll, Windermere, Cumbria
SCOTLAND
Summer Isles, Achitibuie, Highland
Braidwoods, Dalry, North Ayrshire
Number One (at The Balmoral Hotel), Edinburgh
21212, Edinburgh (new)
The Kitchin, Edinburgh
Martin Wishart, Edinburgh
Plumed Horse, Edinburgh
Sangster’s, Elie, Fife
Inverlochy Castle, Fort William, Highland
Champany Inn, Linlithgow, West Lothian
The Albannach, Lochinver, Highland
Boath House, Nairn, Highland
The Peat Inn, Peat Inn, Fife (new)
Knockinaam Lodge, Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway
Kinloch Lodge, Isle of Skye (new)
WALES
The Walnut Tree, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire (new)
Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, Denbighshire (new)
Ynyshir Hall, Machynlleth, Powys (new)
The Crown at Whitebrook, Whitebrook, Monmouthshire
NORTHERN IRELAND
Deanes, Belfast, Antrim
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
The House (at Cliff House Hotel), Ardmore, Waterford (new)
Chapter One, Dublin
L’Ecrivain, Dublin
Thornton’s (at The Fitzwilliam), Dublin
Bon Appetit, Malahide, Dublin
DELETIONS
ONE STAR
LONDON
Aubergine, Chelsea
Ambassade de L’lle, South Kensington
Assaggi, City of Westminster
Foliage (at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel), Knightsbridge
Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s, Mayfair
Richard Corrigan at Lindsay House, Soho
REST OF ENGLAND
Bath Priory, Bath
Le Poussin at Whitley Ridge, Brockenhurst, Hampshire
Christophe, Guernsey
Nathan Outlaw, Fowey, Cornwall
Seaham Hall, Seaham, Durham
SCOTLAND
Ballachulish House, Ballachulish, Highland
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Mint, Dublin
TWO STARS
LONDON
The Capital, Chelsea
REST OF ENGLAND
The Vineyard at Stockcross, Newbury, Berkshire
We hope you enjoyed another long and fresh Michelin Post!
Happy Fooding!
source: www.michelin.co.uk
