All the new stars in the Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2025

Moor Hall in Aughton, Lancashire has been awarded three stars in the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2025.

Twenty-two new one-star restaurants and three new two-star restaurants were announced at the ceremony in Glasgow on Monday night.

Moor Hall, a 16th-century manor house, reopened as a restaurant with rooms under chef patron Mark Birchall in 2017. It won its first star within six months of opening with a second following in 2018.

Joining the other three-star chefs on stage, a visibly emotional Birchall said: “You kind of dream about these things, you almost act it out in your mind of how you’ll be. The emotion is incredible. We got our first star in 2017, and that feeling was incredible, one of the best feelings ever… but this has just destroyed it.”

All nine of the other three-star restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland maintained their stars this year, with the Waterside Inn in Bray marking 40 years with three stars.

Three new restaurants were awarded two Michelin stars, with the Ritz Restaurant in London winning a long-awaited second star. Executive chef John Williams received a standing ovation as he took to the stage.

“I’ve waited 50 years for this, I’m not joking,” said Williams. “It’s special, the Ritz is a special place. We’ve built it on what the room was and classic cuisine. I thought we were forgotten. And we carry on cooking and cooking to the best of our ability, and looking after our guests, and hopefully that works".

 

The other new two stars were Allister Barsby’s Hide and Fox in Saltwood, England, which the guide described as the “perfect country restaurant”. There were also two stars for Angelo Sato’s Humble Chicken in London, which opened in 2021 as a casual yakitori bar and has since evolved to offer a 16-course tasting menu inspired by his Japanese and European roots.

Twenty-two new restaurants were awarded one star, including Jason Atherton and Spencer Metzger’s Row on 5 in London, which had been widely tipped for an award.

There was recognition for the next generation of the Roux dynasty, with Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari winning the first star for their Notting Hill restaurant Caractère.

Kirk and Keeley Haworth’s Plates in London made history as the first vegan restaurant to win a star in the Great Britain & Ireland Guide. The chef said he was “trying to get rid of” the term to describe his plant-based cooking and was focused on “trying to take [cooking] into a new space of deliciousness”.

Skof, the debut restaurant from Simon Rogan alumnus Tom Barnes, won a star for Manchester, the first for the city since Mana was recognised in 2019.

In Wales, Gorse became the first restaurant in Cardiff to win a Michelin star after finding a permanent home in the city last year.

And there were two new stars in Edinburgh for Scotland, with Stuart Ralston’s Lyla and Rodney Wages’ Avery, which previously held a star in San Francisco, both winning one star.

There were three new one-star restaurants in the Republic of Ireland, including Ballyfin country house hotel, Lignum in Bullaun and the Morrison Room in Maynooth.

There were no new starred restaurants for Northern Ireland, though there was a new Bib Gourmand for mrDeanes in Belfast.

Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guides, said: “I am so thrilled to see that our Great Britain & Ireland Guide has had such a strong year yet again. Despite the challenges they face, chefs and restaurateurs have shown us that their talent, commitment and ingenuity know no bounds.”

 

New one-Michelin-starred restaurants for 2025

• Oma, London, England
• Mark Poynton at Caistor Hall, Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk
• Wilsons, Bristol, England
• AngloThai, London, England
• Cornus, London, England
• 33 The Homend, Ledbury, England
• Starling, Esher, England
• Lita, London, England
• 64 Goodge Street, London, England
• Mauro Colagreco at Raffles London at the OWO, London, England
• Skof, Manchester, England
• Forge, Middleton Tyas, England
• Caractère, London, England
• Row on 5, London, England
• Dosa, London, England
• Plates, London, England
• Lyla, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Avery, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Gorse, Cardiff, Wales
• Ballyfin, Ballyfin, Republic of Ireland
• Lignum, Bullaun, Republic of Ireland
• The Morrison Room, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland

 

New two-Michelin-starred restaurants for 2025

• Hide and Fox, Saltwood, England
• The Ritz Restaurant, London, England
• Humble Chicken, London, England

 

New three-Michelin-starred restaurants for 2025

• Moor Hall, Lancashire, England

 

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