Claridge's bags Michelin star
Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, Locanda Locatelli and the Number One restaurant at the Balmoral hotel, Edinburgh, are among 16 restaurants celebrating today after being awarded one Michelin star.
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Pied á Terre in Bloomsbury, London, has regained its two Michelin stars after losing one of them in 2000.
A spate of restaurant closures has meant that Michelin has had to remove stars from a number of high-profile restaurants, including La Tante Claire at the Berkeley hotel, London, John Burton-Race at the Landmark hotel, London, Blinis in Bath, and Cheznico in Mayfair, London.
Michelin's 2003 edition of the Red Guide Great Britain & Ireland is published today 17 January.
Addition of stars:
Two stars:
Pied á Terre, Bloomsbury, London
One star:
England
Drakes on the Pond, Abinger Hammer, Surrey
The Devonshire Arms Country hotel, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
Edmunds, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham
Ripleys, Padstow, Cornwall
Yorke Arms, Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
The Abbey, Penzance, Cornwall
L'Ortolan, Reading, Berkshire
Mallory Court, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Thackeray's, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Scotland
Number One (at the Balmoral hotel), Edinburgh
Republic of Ireland
L'Ecrivain, Dublin
London
Hakkasan, Bloomsbury
Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, Mayfair
Greenhouse, Mayfair
Locanda Locatelli, Marylebone
Deletion of stars:
Two stars:
Blinis, Bath, Somerset
La Tante Claire (at the Berkeley hotel), Mayfair, London
John Burton-Race (at the Landmark hotel) Marylebone, London
One star:
England
Village Bistro, Jersey
La Terrasse (at the Sandgate hotel), Folkstone, Kent
Michael's Nook, Grasmere, Cumbria
Croque-en-Bouche, Great Malvern, Worcestershire
Box Tree, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Guellers, Leeds
Paul Heathcote's, Longridge, Lancashire
Chavignol at the Old Mill, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Sol, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Waldo's (at the Cliveden hotel), Taplow, Buckinghamshire
Scotland
Georgian Room (at the Cameron House hotel), Balloch, Strathclyde
Airds, Port Appin, Strathclyde
Wales
Old Rectory County House, Conwy, Gwynedd
Republic of Ireland
The Commons, Dublin
Peacock Alley (at the Fitzwilliam hotel), Dublin
London
The Connaught, Mayfair
Cheznico, Mayfair
The Oak Room Marco Pierre White, Mayfair
For more on Michelin star additions and deletions see next week's issue of Caterer & Hotelkeeper.
For a full list of starred restaurants and Bib Gourmand awards, visit the Michelin Web site (PDF document) or click on the link above right.
