Earlier this week, Michelin revealed the restaurants that had made it into the 2023 Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland. Every year, Michelin’s team of anonymous restaurant reviewers award these venues with either one star (“high-quality cooking, worth a stop”), two stars (“excellent cooking, worth a detour”) or three stars (“exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey”).

In 2022, Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in Cartmel, Cumbria gained an impressive three-star rating, joining elite restaurants such as The Lecture Room & Library at Sketch, Core by Clare Smyth, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Hélène Darroze at The Connaught in London and Heston Blumenthal’s iconic Fat Duck. While there are no new three-star announcements this year, there were three two-star awards given; Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal, Dede in Baltimore and The Ledbury, which won back its two stars at the first ceremony since the restaurant reopened, following its closure during the 2020 pandemic.

20 restaurants collected their first star. London eateries that proudly collected their first accolade include; Italian restaurant Luca in Clerkenwell, St Barts in Smithfield, Cycene in Shoreditch and Taku in Mayfair. Across the rest of the UK and Ireland, Edinburgh picked up stars for Timberyard and Heron, Grace & Savour in Hampton in Arden won its first star, and there were wins for Restaurant Twenty-Two in Cambridge and Pentonbridge Inn in Penton, Cumbria.

In 2021, the Michelin guide added a Green star to its awards, which “recognises sustainable gastronomy and distinguishes restaurants taking responsibility in the conversation of resources and the protection of biodiversity”. This year, four made the cut: Culture in Falmouth, Crocadon in St Mellion, Apricity in London and Osip in Bruton.

This year, 20 new restaurants made it into the 2023 Michelin Bib Gourmands (Named after Bibendum – the Michelin Man) for Great Britain & Ireland. The Bib Gourmand award “highlights restaurants offering good food at competitive prices”. Including Brighton local The Flint House,  and some of our London favourites including The Barbary, Covent Garden and Smokestak in Shoreditch.

The Ledbury – Credit: Matt Writtle

New One Star Restaurants

Àclèaf, Plymouth
Ben Wilkinson at The Pass, Horsham
Cycene, London
Gidleigh Park, Chagford
Grace & Savour, Hampton in Arden
heft, Newton in Cartmel
Heron, Leith
Luca, London
Lumiére, Cheltenham
Pentonbridge Inn, Penton
Restaurant Twenty-Two, Cambridge
sō–lō, Aughton
SOLSTICE BY KENNY ATKINSON, Newcastle upon Tyne
St. Barts, London
Store, Stoke Holy Cross
Taku, London
Terre, Castlemartyr
The Samling, Ambleside
The Tudor Pass, Egham
Timberyard, Edinburgh

New Green Star Restaurants

Apricity, London
Crocadon, St Mellion
CULTURE, Falmouth
Osip, Bruton

One of the Green Star restaurants that have retained their award for the third year running, is our favourite sustainable Kent restaurant by Will Devlin, The Small Holding.

The Small Holding by Will Devlin

All the new Bib Gourmand restaurants

Blaise Inn, Bristol
COR, Bristol
EDŌ, Belfast
Emilia, Ashburton
Evernight, London
Flint House, Brighton
Hām, London
Kushi-Ya, Nottingham
Marmo, Bristol
Plaza Khao Gaeng, London
Queen of Cups, Glastonbury
Root Wells, Wells
Saint Francis Provisions, Kinsale
Six Bells, Witham on the Hill
The Chequers, Bath
The Galley, Topsham
The Pelican, London
The Spärrows, Manchester
Waterman, Belfast
Yr Hen Printworks, Cardigan

Evernight London – Credit: (Adrian Lourie)

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