Michelin Guide 2019: The UK's best restaurants announced
Core by Clare Smyth jumped straight into the guide with two stars
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Your support makes all the difference.The 2019 Michelin Guide for Great Britain and Ireland has been revealed.
At an awards ceremony in Waterloo’s BFI IMAX cinema, chefs from across the country gathered to find out if their restaurants had made this year’s guide, which will be officially published on 5 October.
Dubbed “the Oscars of the food industry”, the coveted stars are seen as the ultimate accolade, setting the standard for discerning diners everywhere.
This year, the top spot remained unaffected with five restaurants learning they managed to retain their stars: The Araki, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester were the London establishments to hold on their accolades, as did Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck and Alain Roux's Waterside Inn, both in Bray.
However, the biggest win of 2019 was Core by Clare Smyth, which jumped straight into the guide at two-star level.
The restaurant, which opened to widespread acclaim in 2017, was too late for inclusion in the 2018 guide and is the latest achievement for Smyth, who won the “Best Female Chef” award from The World’s 50 Best organisation in April.
Smyth, a protégé of Gordon Ramsay, also catered for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s evening wedding reception on 19 May, and was made an MBE in 2013 for services to the hospitality industry.
Upon receiving the award from her former boss, she told the audience: “It makes it obviously even more special that Gordon’s handing it to me … It’s been a hell of a year. We’ve achieved what we really set out to achieve.”
Two other restaurants were newly awarded two stars. James Knappett’s Kitchen Table at Bubbledogs received its second Michelin star after having won its first a year after opening in the 2015 guide.
Mark Birchall, a protégé of chef Simon Rogan, was also awarded a second star for Moor Hall, while chef Marcus Wareing lost his second star for Marcus restaurant, at the Berkeley hotel.
In all, an impressive 21 restaurants were newly awarded one star this year.
Notable new entries to the red guide include London-based Brat (Shoreditch), Hide (Mayfair), Ikoyi (St James’s), Leroy (Shoreditch), Roganic (Marylebone) and Sabor (Mayfair).
Those based outside of London are Blackbird, Bulrush, Chestnut, Fordwich Arms, Gidleigh Park, Ichiho Ichie, Mews, Olive Tree, Oxford Kitchen, Rogan & Co, Salt, Sorrel, Tim Allen’s Flitch of Bacon, White Swan, Winteringham Fields.
At this year's ceremony the Michelin Guide also collaborated with the World Avocado Organisation (WAO) to celebrate the brunch staple in all its glory, which is the first time the guide has worked with a fruit.
The iconic book hopes to encourage people to think past smashed avocado on toast with guests at the event dining on white miso tofu filled with avocado mousse, topped with caviar and a warm roast chicken broth; and avocado macarons, filled with white chocolate and avocado ganache and raspberry.
The Michelin Guide 2019 full list
Three Star:
London
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
The Araki
Outside London
Fat Duck
Waterside Inn
Two Star:
London
Claude Bosi at Bibendum
Core by Clare Smyth new
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Greenhouse
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
Kitchen Table at Bubble Dogs new
Ledbury
Le Gavroche
Sketch (The Lecture Room & Library)
Umu
Outside London
Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles
Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
Hand and Flowers
L’Enclume
Midsummer House
Moor Hall new
Patrick Guilbaud
Raby Hunt
Restaurant Nathan Outlaw
Restaurant Sat Bains
One Star:
London
A Wong
Alyn Williams at The Westbury
Amaya
Ametsa
Angler
Aquavit
Barrafina
Benares
Bonhams
Brat new
Chez Bruce
City Social
Clove Club
Club Gascon
Céleste
Dining Room at the Goring
Elystan Street
Fera at Claridge’s
Five Fields
Galvin at Windows
Galvin La Chapelle
Gymkhana
Hakkasan Hanway Place
Hakkasan Mayfair
Hedone
Hide new
Ikoyi new
Kai
Kitchen W8
La Dame de Pic
La Trompette
Leroy new
Locanda Locatelli
Lyle’s
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon
Murano
Pied à Terre
Pollen Street Social
Portland
Pétrus
Ritz Restaurant
River Café
Roganic new
Sabor new
Seven Park Place
Social Eating House
St John
Story
Texture
The Glasshouse
The Ninth
Trinity
Trishna
Veeraswamy
Vineet Bhatia
Yauatcha Soho
Outside London
21212
Adam’s
Aniar
Black Rat
Black Swan
Blackbird new
Bohemia
Braidwoods
Bybrook at Manor House Hotel
Bulrush new
Campagne
Carters of Moseley
Casamia
Chapter One
Chestnut new
Coworth Park
Cross at Kenilworth
Crow
Driftwood
Eipic
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Fordwich Arms new
Forest Side
Fraiche
Gidleigh Park new
Gilpin Hotel & Lake House
Gravetye Manor
Greenhouse
Hambleton Hall
Heron & Grey
Hinds Head
House at Cliff House Hotel
House of Tides
Ichigo Ichie new
James Sommerin
John’s House
Kinloch Lodge
Kitchin
Lady Helen at Mount Juliet Hotel
Loam
Loch Bay
L’Ecrivain
L’Ortolan
Lympstone Manor
Martin Wishart
Masons Arms
Matt Worswick at the Latymer
Mews new
Morston Hall
Northcote
Number One
Nut Tree
Olive Tree new
Samphire
Outlaw’s Fish Kitchen
OX
Oxford Kitchen new
Paco Tapas
Paul Ainsworth at No.6
Peel’s at Hampton Manor Hotel
Pipe and Glass Inn
Pony & Trap
Purnell’s
Red Lion Freehouse
Restaurant Hywel Jones by Lucknam Park
Restaurant Tristan
Rogan & Co new
Salt new
Simon Radley at Chester Grosvenor
Simpsons
Sorrel new
Sosban & The Old Butchers
Star Inn
The Cellar
The Checkers
The Clock House Restaurant
The Coach
The Dining Room at Whatley Manor Hotel
The Elephant
The Man Behind the Curtain
The Neptune
The Peat Inn
The Sportsman
The Whitebrook
Thomas Carr @ The Olive Room
Tim Allen’s Flitch of Bacon new
Tudor Room at Great Fosters Hotel
Tyddyn Llan
Walnut Tree
West House
White Swan new
Wilk’s
Wild Honey Inn
Winteringham Fields new
Woodspeen
Ynyshir
Yorke Arms
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