AA ROSETTE CRITERIA

 One rosette
Chefs should display a mastery of basic techniques and be able to produce dishes of sound quality and clarity of flavours, using good, fresh ingredients.
 Two rosettes
Innovation, greater technical skill and more consistency and judgement in combining and balancing ingredients are all needed at this level.
 Three rosettes
This award takes a restaurant into the big league. Expectations of the kitchen are high: exact technique, flair and imagination must come through in every dish, and balance and depth of flavour are all-important.
 Four rosettes
At this level, not only should all technical skills be exemplary, but there should also be daring ideas, and they must work. There is no room for disappointment. Flavours should be accurate and vibrant.

 Five rosettes
The supreme accolade awarded only when the cooking is at the pinnacle of achievement. Flavours, combinations and textures show a faultless sense of balance, giving each dish an extra dimension.

 

THREE AA ROSETTES: SOUTH WEST
5 North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire	AA entry
Andrews on the Weir, Porlock, Somerset	AA entry
The Bath Priory hotel and restaurant, Bath, Somerset	AA entry
Bovey Castle, Moretonhampstead, Devon	AA entry
The Bybrook restaurant at Manor House, Castle Combe, Wiltshire	AA entry
Corbyn Head hotel & Orchid restaurant, Torquay, Devon	AA entry
Driftwood, Portscatho, Cornwall	AA entry
The Elephant Bar & Restaurant, Torquay, Devon	AA entry
The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire	AA entry
The Horn of Plenty, Gulworthy, Devon	AA entry
Hotel Endsleigh, Tavistock, Devon	AA entry
Hotel Tresanton, St Mawes, Cornwall	AA entry
Lewtrenchard Manor, Lewdown, Devon	AA entry
Little Barwick House, Yeovil, Devon	AA entry
Lucknam Park, Colerne, Wiltshire	AA entry
The Mason Arms Inn, Knowestone, Devon	AA entry
The New Angel, Dartmouth, Devon	AA entry
Restaurant Nathan Outlaw at the Marina Villa hotel, Fowey, Cornwall	AA entry
The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall	AA entry
Sienna, Dorchester, Dorset	AA entry
St Martin's on the Isle, St Martin’s, Cornwall	AA entry
Stock Hill Country House hotel & testaurant, Gillingham, Dorset	AA entry
Summer Lodge Country House hotel, Evershot, Dorset	AA entry
Well House hotel, Liskeard, Cornwall	AA entry
Whatley Manor, Malmesbury, Wiltshire	AA entry

 

THREE AA ROSETTES: SOUTH EAST
36 on the Quay, Emsworth, Hampshire	AA entry
Amberley Castle, Sussex	AA entry
Apicius, Cranbrook, Kent	AA entry
The Bildeston Crown, Bildeston, Suffolk	AA entry
The Camellia restaurant at South Lodge hotel, Lower Beeding, West Sussex	AA entry
Chewton Glen hotel, New Milton, Hampshire	AA entry
Drake's restaurant, Ripley, Surrey	AA entry
Frederick's hotel, hestaurant & spa, Maidenhead, Berkshire	AA entry
Gravetye Manor hotel, East Grinstead, West Sussex	AA entry
The Hand & Flowers, Marlow, Buckinghamshire	AA entry
Hartwell House hotel, restaurant & spa, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire	AA entry
JSW, Petersfield, Hampshire	AA entry
Lainston House hotel, Winchester, Hampshire	AA entry
Macdonald Compleat Angler, Marlow, Buckinghamshire	AA entry
Newick Park Hotel and Country Estate, East Sussex	AA entry
The Oak Room at Danesfield House, Marlow	AA entry
Ockenden Manor, Cuckfield, West Sussex	AA entry
L'Ortolan, Shinfield, Berkshire	AA entry
Pennyhill Park hotel & The Spa, Bagshot, Surrey	AA entry
Le Poussin at Whitley Ridge Country House, Brockenhurst, Hampshire	AA entry
Read's restaurant, Faversham, Kent	AA entry
Thackeray's, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent	AA entry
Waldo's restaurant, Cliveden, Taplow, Buckinghamshire	AA entry
The West House, Biddenden, Kent	AA entry
West Stoke House, Chichester, West Sussex	AA entry

THREE AA ROSETTES: WEST MIDLANDS
La Bécasse, Ludlow, Shropshire	AA entry
Castle House, Hereford, Herefordshire	AA entry
Mallory Court hotel, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire	AA entry
Mr Underhills restaurant, Ludlow, Shropshire	AA entry
Old Vicarage hotel and restaurant, Worfield, Shropshire	AA entry
Simpsons, Birmingham, West Midlands	AA entry

THREE AA ROSETTES: EAST MIDLANDS
Harry's Place, Grantham, Lincolnshire	AA entry
The Old Vicarage, Ridgeway, Derbyshire	AA entry

THREE AA ROSETTES: EAST OF ENGLAND
The Grove, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire	AA entry
Hintlesham Hall hotel, Hintlesham, Suffolk	AA entry
Morston Hall, Blakeney, Norfolk	AA entry

THREE AA ROSETTES: NORTH WEST
The Arkle, Chester Grosvenor & Spa, Cheshire	AA entry
Fraiche, Birkenhead, Merseyside	AA entry
Gilpin Lodge Country House hotel & restaurant, Windermere, Cumbria	AA entry
Holbeck Ghyll Country House hotel, Windermere Cumbria	AA entry
Linthwaite House hotel, Windermere, Cumbria	AA entry
The Longridge restaurant, Longridge, Lancashire	AA entry
Northcote Manor, Llangho, Lancashire	AA entry
Rampsbeck Country House hotel, Watermillock, Cumbria	AA entry
The Samling, Windermere, Cumbria	AA entry

THREE AA ROSETTES: NORTH EAST, YORKSHIRE & HUMBER
Anthony's restaurant, Leeds, West Yorkshire	AA entry
Box Tree restaurant, Ilkley, West Yorkshire	AA entry
Judges Country House hotel, Yarm, Cleveland	AA entry
Seaham Hall hotel - The White Room restaurant, Seaham, County Durham	AA entry
Swinton Park, Masham, North Yorkshire	AA entry
Yorke Arms, Ramsgill, North Yorkshire	AA entry

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