Sat Bains wins five AA Rosettes

Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham has won the AA's top accolade of five rosettes.

The Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms on the outskirts of Nottingham was the only restaurant to have been given the top award at the 2009-2010 AA Hospitality Awards held at the London Hilton Park Lane last night.

The restaurant was recognised for its continued high standards and for providing inspiration to peers throughout the industry.

Housed in a converted Victorian farmhouse, the 32-seat restaurant is renowned for its trademark tasting menus that include a degustation menu offering diners a taste of 12 different courses.

Bains said he was "absolutely blown away" by the accolade. "It's a great testament to what we are doing here at the restaurant and it's fantastic to be recognised in this way," he said.

"When I found out I was totally speechless, which to those who know me well is a very rare occurrence."

Four rosettes were awarded to Claude Bosi's two-Michelin-starred restaurant Hibiscus and French chef Hélène Darroze's Michelin-starred restaurant at the Connaught hotel, both in London; as well as Michael Wignall at the Michelin-starred Latymer at Pennyhill Park in Bagshot, Surrey.