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Marcus Wareing’s Knightsbridge Restaurant Lost a Michelin Star

Gordon Ramsay alumnus’ restaurant at the Berkeley drops to one star; elsewhere, five restaurants lost their star status

Marcus Wareing and Sat Bains at Michelin Guide’s Michelin stars announcement in 2018
Marcus Wareing, second from the left, is the chef-patron of Marcus at the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge
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Today, the 2019 Michelin Guide to the U.K. and Ireland included a record number of new stars for restaurants across the two countries. The headlines were Core by Clare Smyth being awarded two stars at the first time of asking; Nieves Barragan Mohacho winning a single star for Sabor, and James Knappet’s Kitchen Table jumping from one to two. In the east of the city, Brat and Leroy doubled the number of Michelin-starred restaurants in Shoreditch.

But, the live event does not make a big deal of the deletions and demotions. That emerges from the printed guide itself, which has now been circulated among the cognoscenti present at the event.

The big story is the demotion from two stars to one star for Gordon Ramsay alumnus (and nemesis) Marcus Wareing. His eponymous restaurant at the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge has held two Michelin stars for nine years, first getting the honour in 2009.

Elsewhere, Virgilio Martinez’s Lima, which is run by chef Robert Ortiz, is among the five high-profile deletions from the guide. The Peruvian restaurant on Rathbone Place in Fitzrovia had held a star since 2013.

Jamavar, the Indian fine-dining restaurant in Mayfair, entered the guide only last year, but lost its head chef Rohit Ghai at the end of 2017; it, too, has lost its star.

Chefs moving on clearly have an impact on the inspectors’ reading, as Outlaw’s at the Capital — whose head chef Tom Brown left to open Cornerstone in Hackney Wick in the spring — is also now without a star.

Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, the Spanish fine-dining restaurant at the Halkin hotel has also lost its star, taking the number of hotel restaurants in Knightsbridge to have been demoted or deleted to three in this year’s guide.

Tamarind is the fifth restaurant in London to have lost its star, since it is closed for refurbishment.

Stay tuned for more reaction soon.

Sabor

35-37 Heddon Street, , England W1B 4BR 020 3319 8130 Visit Website

Spring

Lancaster Place, , England WC2R 1LA 020 3011 0115 Visit Website

Story

199 Tooley Street, , England SE1 2JX 020 7183 2117 Visit Website

BRAT

4 Redchurch Street, , England E1 6JL Visit Website

Marcus

Wilton Place, , England SW1X 7RL 020 7235 1200 Visit Website

Cornerstone

3 Prince Edward Road, London, Greater London E9 5LX +44 20 8986 3922 Visit Website

Kitchen Table

70 Charlotte Street, , England W1T 4QG Visit Website

Jamavar

8 Mount Street, , England W1K 3NF 020 7499 1800 Visit Website

Tamarind

20 Queen St, London W1J 5PR, London, 440207 629 3561 Visit Website

Lima

2151 Salvio Street, , CA 94520 (925) 309-7774 Visit Website

Leroy

18 Phipp Street, , England EC2A 4NU 020 7739 4443 Visit Website

Core by Clare Smyth

92 Kensington Park Road, , England W11 2PN 020 3937 5086 Visit Website

Ametsa with Arzak Instruction

Halkin Street, , England SW1X 7DJ 020 7333 1234 Visit Website