Last year the restaurant guide awarded nine restaurants four Rosettes.
The restaurants to receive three Rosette are nearly all recent launches, and include Ben Wilkinson at The Pass in West Sussex, One Devonshire Gardens by Hotel du Vin in Glasgow, Thornbury Castle near Bristol, The Dog and Gun Inn in Cumbria and Restaurant 1890 by Gordon Ramsay and Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal (both in London).
According to the guide, establishments with three AA Rosettes are ‘outstanding restaurants achieving standards which demand national recognition well beyond their local area’ while those awarded four AA Rosettes are considered ‘among the top restaurants in the country’.
Once again, the AA did not award any restaurants its maximum five Rosette rating, which is reserved for ‘restaurants at the very pinnacle, where the cooking compares with the best in the world’.
A total of 16 restaurants currently hold five Rosettes including The Fat Duck in Bray, L’Enclume in Cartmel, The Kitchin in Edinburgh and Hélène Darroze at The Connaught in London.
The allocation of multi-Rosettes is determined by one or more visits by an AA inspector to a hotel or restaurant, the guide says.
“This year we’ve seen an exceptional level of culinary excellence demonstrated by those receiving our coveted three and four AA Rosettes," says managing director at AA Hotel & Hospitality Services Simon Numphud.
“I’m constantly inspired by the resilience, innovation, and quality demonstrated by these trailblazers in our industry. Congratulations to the chefs and front-of-house teams who have helped make their Rosette awards possible.”
