Michelin Stars 2016

17th March 2015

Michelin tweets new star awards early after bookshop leak: The Michelin guide announced its new set of stars on Twitter yesterday ahead of its scheduled announcement at 7.30am this morning (17 September). It tweeted: “Let down once again by a bookshop – here are the new‪#‎MichelinStars2016” at 2.07pm and then proceeded to announce its new stars.

A source at The Michelin Guide’s PR said: “Unfortunately a couple of books got out early from a bookshop ahead of release and Michelin wanted to ensure that results would not be leaked, so announced them straight away via its Twitter feed.” Rebecca Burr, editor of the Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2016, said: “Twitter is an everyday tool for us now and a natural way for us to communicate. It’s where we give our readers and followers information and a flavour of what we do and how we do it. We owe it to our followers and the chefs to make sure they hear important news from us first.” There are 15 new one Michelin star and two new Michelin stars restaurants in the 2016 Michelin Guide. The new two stars are both Japanese restaurants: Araki and Umu. The new one stars in London include Lyle’s, Bonhams, Portland and the Dining Room at the Goring, and in Leeds there’s a star for The Man Behind the Curtain. There was a star for John’s House near Loughborough, where chef John Duffin cooks at the family farm where he grew up. In Scotland, The Cellar in Anstruther receives a star, as do Eipic and Ox in Belfast, the Greenhouse in Dublin and Loam in Galway, the House of Tides in Newcastle, Graveyte Manor, East Grinstead, the Woodspeen, Newbury. Carters of Moseley in Birmingham won a star, bringing the city’s tally to five, meaning it has the most number of stars after London. Three stars are retained by Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, and the Waterside Inn in Bray. This year there are 25 new bib gourmands. Among them are the White Swan in Fence, Oli’s Thai in Oxford, Tom Kerridge’s pub The Coach in Marlow and Nuno Mendes’ Taberna do Mercado in Spitalfields. Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant ‘The Fat Duck’ is absent for this edition of the guide, as following a temporary move to Australia, it did not reopen in time for Michelin to assess it.