Marcus Wareing has capped off a spectacular year by winning the Chef's Chef of the Year Award at this year's 2010 AA Hospitality Awards.
The AA award, 'the icing on the cake' as Wareing told Hot Dinners, is voted for by the 1800 chefs whose establishments appear in the guide. When we asked him how he was feeling, Wareing said; 'It’s quite special because your peers have voted for you and because I have managed to split away from Gordon and still continue on my own and still be as successful as I was with and without him.'
This is yet another notch in Wareing's post - over the past 12 months the chef's restaurant Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, scooped the Breakthrough Award at the San Pellegrino top 50 Awards and was voted most popular chef at the Top Table awards as well as Top Restaurant and Best Dessert in this year's Harden Guide.
Other top winners in this year's awards included Richard Corrigan, whose eponymous Mayfair establishment won Restaurant of the Year, London and Raymond Blanc who picked up his second Lifetime Achievement Award of the year.
There was probably also a glass of two of impeccably-sourced fizz opened at two other London restaurants, Hibiscus and Helene D'Arroze at the Connaught who are celebrating entering the AA's 4 Rosette category.
Read our exclusive interview with Marcus Wareing.
And see what Richard Corrigan had to say about his year here.
