The AA has announced which of the nation’s restaurants have been awarded new multi rosettes, with two restaurants achieving the highest rating of five AA Rosettes. In addition, seven restaurants have achieved four Rosettes and 20 have been awarded three Rosettes.
To obtain five AA Rosettes restaurants have soon that their cooking stands comparison with the best in the world with highly individual cook, breathtaking culinary skills and set the standards to which other aspire. The four Rosette establishments also show intense ambition, a passion for excellence, superb technical skills and an appreciation of culinary traditions combined with a desire for exploration and improvement while restaurants with three AA Rosettes have shown that they are outstanding and demand recognition well beyond their local area.
Sponsored by Villeroy & Boch, a total of twenty nine hotels have been awarded Multi Rosette status this year:
New Five Rosette Restaurants
- The Kitchin, Edinburgh
- Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London
This award makes Tom Kitchin’s Edinburgh restaurant, The Kitchin, the only five Rossetted restaurant in Scotland while Restaurant Gordon Ramsay’s award takes the total of five Rosetted restaurants in London to five.
New Four Rosette Restaurants
- Plas Ynyshir Hall Hotel, Eglwys Fach
- Stovell’s, Chobham
- The Westbury Hotel, London
- Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Port Isaac
- Claridge’s, London
- The Ledbury, London
- Fraiche, Birkenhead
New Three Rosette Restaurants
- Old Downtown Lodge, Ludlow
- The Cellar, Anstruther
- EIPIC, Belfast
- The Boathouse Restaurant, Bangor
- Galgorm Resort and Spa, Ballymena
- Cail Bruich, Glasgow
- Lough Erne Resort, Enniskillen
- Sudbury House, Faringdon
- Lickfolk Inn, Lickfold
- Amaya, London
- The Horn of Plenty, Tavistock
- Lavenham Great House Restaurant with Rooms, Lavenham
- Rockliffe Hall, Darlington
- The Coach, Marlow
- L’Ortolan, Shinfield
- Marmadukes Town House Hotel, York
- The Kingham Plough, Kingham
- Sosban & The Old Butcher’s Restaurant, Menai Bridge
- Macdonald Complete Angler, Marlow
- Restaurant James Sommerin, Penarth
The new Rosettes were presented by Nick Green of Villeroy & Boch at the AA Hospitality Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. The awards, often referred to as the industry’s ‘Oscars’, were hosted by Fiona Bruce and guests were treated to a sensational gourmet meal created by 2014 AA Chefs’ Chef, Nathan Outlaw.
The award event also sees the launch of the 2016 AA guides to UK hotels, restaurants, pubs and B&Bs which contain details of all the winning establishments.
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