This feature is about the new restaurants for the 2020 guide. For the new restaurants in the 2021 guide, go here.
Despite the many challenges and pitfalls that beset the food industry currently, the quality of food in the UK and Ireland continues to go from strength to strength in the eyes of Michelin. 2020 has been a historic year, once again, with a record number of restaurants being welcomed or upgraded in the Michelin Guide.
London has for so long been the beating heart of the UK’s culinary scene; the capital still boasts a considerable chunk of the restaurants in the Michelin Guide, but the story this is year is surely a move away from the traditional epicentre, and into the countryside of Great Britain and Ireland. There were notable wins all over the UK – for Ben Crittenden at Stark in Kent, Michael Wignall at The Angel at Hetton in Yorkshire, Hywel Griffith at Beach House in Oxwich, Wales and for Lee Westcott with his new venture, Pensons.
Rafael Cagali’s Da Terra is one of four London restaurants – along with The Dysart Petersham, Endo at the Rotunda and Nuno Mendes’ Mãos – that enter the guide this year, though Le Dame de Pic won a second star, and Sketch Lecture Room and Library also receives the honour of a prestigious third Michelin star.
The biggest story of this year’s guide is in the often overlooked part of the guide: Ireland. Four Irish restaurants entered for the first time this year, including Aimsir, which debuted at two stars less than six months after opening in County Kildare. The Greenhouse in Dublin also won a second star, rounding off a fantastic year for Ireland.
Want to know more about the twenty-eight new entries in this year’s Michelin Guide? You’ve come to the right place – read on below, and check out the full list of results here.