All The New Michelin-Starred Restaurants In The UK & Ireland

Last night, Michelin announced which restaurants had made it into the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland. Each year, Michelin’s team of anonymous restaurant inspectors award venues with one star (“high-quality cooking, worth a stop”), two stars (“excellent cooking, worth a detour”) or three stars (“exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey”). 

Last year, the UK gained one of the latter for Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in Cartmel, Cumbria, joining top restaurants The Lecture Room & Library at Sketch, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Core by Clare Smyth and Hélène Darroze at The Connaught in London, and Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck and Alain Roux’s Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire. And while there were no new three-star announcements this year, there were three two-star awards given to Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal, which only opened last year, 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 pandemic.

In total, 20 restaurants picked up their first star. London teams earning 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.