The Michelin Great Britain & Ireland Stars for 2020 have been unveiled tonight at a special launch event at The Hurlingham Club in Fulham, London. 187 Michelin-Starred Restaurants are featured for 2020, including one new Three Star, four new Two Stars and 23 new One Stars.
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Glasgow has no Michelin Starred Restaurants for another year, although, as we previously reported, Monadh Kitchen in Bearsden and Sugar Boat in Helensburgh retain their Bib Gourmand designation alongside Ox and Finch in the West End.
Gordon Ramsay’s Amaryllis was the last restaurant awarded a Michelin Star in Glasgow, in the 2002 Michelin Guide, which it held until the restaurant’s closure in 2004.
Scotland brings has two new Stars in the form of understated Condita in Edinburgh and Isle of Eriska, which is set within an impressive baronial mansion on the island of the same name
Elsewhere, Manchester gained its first Michelin Star in over 40 years for Mana, and the Lake District was a big winner with three restaurants gaining One Star: Old Stamp House at Ambleside; Allium at Askham Hall in Askham, which makes great use of produce from its gardens and estate; and The Cottage in the Wood in Braithwaite.
As always, London has a spread of new One Star restaruants, including Mãos in Shoreditch; Da Terra in the restored Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green and Japanese Endo at The Rotunda in the old BBC Building in Shepherd’s Bush.
Restaurant Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles retains its Two Star rating in the new guide.
The 2020 selection at a glance:
• 1,464 restaurants in total (131 New)
• 5 Three Michelin Star restaurants (1 New)
• 23 Two Michelin Star restaurants (4 New)
• 159 One Michelin Star restaurants (23 New)
• 131 Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurants (22 New) [See also the Bib Gourmand Press Release]
• 1,146 Michelin Plate restaurants (131 New)