The Michelin Guide has unveiled its new stars for 2023. As ever, a Michelin star is much prized by chefs and it remains the only restaurant award that is globally recognised. Here are the London restaurants that got shiny new stars in 2022.
New two-starred restaurants
Alex Dilling at Hotel Cafe Royal
Piccadilly - 68 Regent St, Soho, London W1B 4DY
Alex Dilling (previously at The Greenhouse where he had two Michelin stars) is in charge of the main restaurant at Hotel Cafe Royal. He's only serving 34 diners and they're getting an exemplary tasting menu that's all based around a contemporary take on French cuisine. This gives the hotel the destination restaurant that such an iconic London building truly deserved.
The Ledbury
Notting Hill - 127 Ledbury Road, London W11 2AQ
One of London's legendary restaurants and one that's often raved about by foodies as among the very best in town. Fronted by Brett Graham, it's recently had a complete revamp, returning with a glammed-up redesign and perhaps something of a more high-end feel than before.
New one-starred restaurants
Cycene
Shoreditch - 9 Chance St, London E2 7JB
Cycene is the restaurant inside Blue Mountain School in Shoreditch, with chef Theo Clench in charge. Here you can expect a tasting menu-only experience, with its influences in Japan and Australasia, that takes place throughout the building - from the bar to the kitchen and the dining room.
Luca
Clerkenwell - 88 St John Street, London EC1M 4EH
This Clerkenwell restaurant is from the team behind two-Michelin-starred and World's 50 Best restaurant The Clove Club. An Italian restaurant using British produce it's split between a more casual cafe at the front and more formal dining in the restaurant at the back.
Restaurant St Barts
Smithfield - 63 Bartholomew Cl, London EC1A 7BG
The people behind Nest in Hackney are in charge of this Smithfield restaurant. Here, things are a little different with a focus on hyper-seasonal British food and a huge 15-course tasting menu that starts in the bar before progressing to the main dining room (which looks out onto the City's oldest building).
More about Restaurant St Barts
Taku
Mayfair - 36 Albemarle St, London W1S 4JE
Chef Takuya Watanabe left Paris for London to open Taku and it's paid off in style. His Mayfair omakase restaurant has just 16 seats with chef Taku serving up a regularly changing menu based on the best produce available.
Plus this year's Bib Gourmands and other awards
The Michelin Bib Gourmands "highlight restaurants which offer good quality, good value cooking". Here are the new Bibs for 2023:
- Plaza Khao Gaeng (Arcade Food Hall, Soho)
- Evernight (Nine Elms)
- Hām (West Hampstead)
- The Pelican (Notting Hill)
Read more about the Bib Gourmand awards here.
And the special awards for London went to:
- The Sommelier Award - Tara Ozols (SOLA)
- Cocktail Award - Makis Kazakis (Park Chinois)
- Green Star - Apricity
See all the Michelin-starred restaurants in London
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