Good Food Guide announces top eateries The Fat Duck is number one, with perfect score
04 September 2008
The top restaurants in the UK are revealed today by the Which? Good Food Guide 2009.
Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck is number one - for the second year in a row.
We rated it 10 out of 10 - a score not seen in the guide for four years, and signifying perfect dishes on a consistent basis.
Gordon Ramsay's eponymous restaurant took second place with a score of nine out of 10.
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Chef Marcus Wareing has driven Pétrus up several places in our league and now takes third, with Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in fourth.
Lower down the chart is a crop of 'exciting British talent'. These chefs, who currently score seven or eight out of 10, were rated as having the potential to be the next Blumenthal or Ramsay.
Elizabeth Carter, editor of the Good Food Guide, says: 'These are exciting times for the UK restaurant scene with some really talented young chefs emerging who could go all the way to the top.'
Chefs to watch
The guide highly rated these chefs:
- Nathan Outlaw at Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall, has been making 'discreet but powerful waves'
- Jason Atherton at Maze, London, demonstrates 'confident, pace-setting cooking and compelling flavour juxtapositions'
- Shaun Rankin at Bohemia, Jersey, is a 'hugely accomplished talent cooking at the top of his game'
- Adam Simmonds at Danesfield House, Marlow, 'shows elements of pure genius'
- Michael Wignall at the Latymer, Surrey, demonstrates a 'complex and highly technical modern approach'.
The Good Food Guide 2009 can be ordered online or by calling 01903 828557. It's also available in bookshops and costs £16.99.
