

The full list is below, extracted from the PDF and with last year's ratings too. The Kitchen is the only restaurant with a Michelin star in Sacramento boasting contemporary Californian cuisine. The centre of fine dining is still London - Westminster has 36 one, two or three star restaurants. Excellent food and a comfortable setting make this Michelin star restaurant in Oakland stand out and puts Piedmont Avenue on the sought-after culinary map. There are also three new pubs with one star. There are three new stars in Scotland, one in Wales and four in London, which include Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. Published for the first time before Christmas, this year's guide sees a wide geographical spread of new stars. Only four restaurants have three stars: the Fat Duck, Bray the Waterside Inn, Bray Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea and Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Mayfair. It joins Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham in having their single star ratings raised to two in the latest edition of the world-famous bible of gastronomy.Ī total of 13 pubs were awarded Michelin stars, with three – the Sir Charles Napier in Chinnor, Oxfordshire the Butchers Arms in Eldersfield, Gloucestershire and the Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire – winning them for the first time. With this in mind, Sá Pessoa prepares Portuguese cuisine straight from the heart fused with Asian-inspired techniques.

The mantra of Alma is to serve much more than a meal: we serve emotions, identity, knowledge.

For more than a century, the guide has helped shape the fate of chefs and restaurants across the world. This years Michelin stars have been handed out with the full 2012 list including a pub with two stars for the first time: Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. But the fact of the matter is that they dont exist: Stars are awarded to the restaurant, not the chef. TWO STARS Alma (Portuguese for soul) is a restaurant created from the passion of Portuguese celebrity chef Henrique Sá Pessoa. Michelin stars are part of a restaurant rating system from the famed Michelin Guide, which was devised by the Michelin brothers, Andr and douard, who owned a tire companyyes, that tire companyin France.
